Who has a broken tip?

[Michael Cook]

:spyder: Always give s3ov blades a light sharpening when they're new right out of the box. A light sharpening seems to really toughen up the crystal matrix for some reason, I dunno why. :spyder:

[yablanowitz]

I have carpet knives and utility knives. I used to use them a lot more than I do now. I haven't found one that came out of the package sharp enough to suit me, and I haven't seen one yet that held an edge worth squat. Plus I find all of their ilk too bulky to carry around for the amount of edge they deliver. I know I should use a disposable blade for rough work that will ruin an edge quickly, but a good knife will make it through a job that would have me changing blades on a utility knife several times. Been there, done that, don't have the extra time at work.

I've been thinking about this a lot. If I use a cheap disposable blade for rough work, what am I saving my Spydies for? Light work? That's like taking a Yugo to the racetrack to save your Porche for the weekly grocery run.

Did Spyderco build a reputation for knives that come sharp and stay sharp just by being too expensive to use? I don't think so. I think Sal and company invest an enormous amount of time and money bringing us innovative designs and leading edge materials in the form of the finest cutting tools available. It seems a shame to save all that effort for a milk run.

Look out everything, the Spyders are coming! :D

[The Mastiff]

Tip my lil temp broke from cutting down a cardboard box. Tip of MY Strider SNG broke from cuttong some rope.

If you dont consider than normal use, I dont know what ya do. Maybe opening envelopes.

Funny, but I have broken down boxes, and cut plenty of rope without damaging my knives. You clumsy or something? Joe

[ghostrider]

I remember a Meyerco knife that I had gotten for a person who does abuse his knives. He's a mason, and he is also a knife freak. He'll just stab a 6x6 just to see what happens. He also wouldn't hesitate to use it like a screwdriver or pry bar. Anyway, he brought it back to me one day to see if I could work with it. Tip was broken off about 5/8". He said all he was doing was scrapping a glass, car window with it. I asked him if he ever stabbed anything with it and he said, "I don't know".

Another time I had gotten him a Meadowlark (he loved that knife). He always brought his knife to me for sharpening. One time when I was sharpening it, I noticed that a spot on the edge near the tip wouldn't take a grind. It kept forming a chip no matter how much I reground it. It was almost like it has some sort of deformity in the steel. I asked him what happened. He said that he was cutting some shingles on a roof or something, and he hit something that just stopped the knife. It must have been something very hard, because he acted like he was concerned (at the time it happened) that it might have messed his knife up. Well, it did. I figured he stressed the metal somehow that caused a deformity (don't know if I'm right about this, but that's my theory :D ). Since it was only about 1/8" from the tip, I just left it there and sharpened the blade chip and all. I wasn't about to grind it down until the chip had been ground out. I figured at the rate he goes I'd eventually sharpen the chip out, or the tip would break off.

I also was looking at a Rough Rider knife at a show once when I looked at the blade and noticed a crack. When I brought it to the dealers attention, he opened the blade only to have half of it fall away at the crack. He said that it was a brand new knife. Seems it was just a deformity at the factory.

Knives can break on the seemingly easiest tasks. In such cases, it is MHO that it is usually a result of either a deformity in manufacturing, or previous abuse.

OTH, my Old Timer Trapper has a bend in the blade (I probably pried something as a kid). When I straightened it out a bit it didn't give. I don't think that old piece of carbon steel is ever going to break. :D

[Mr Blonde]

My 'normal use' for spydies' tips include piercing boxes, envelopes, cutting fruit and cutting out articles or photos from magazines. With that type of work, I've never had a tip break on me.

While camping once, I used a Delica III SE to dig out some large pebbles to make space for a tent stake. During that chore I broke the tip, about 5 mm from the blade. I don't whine about it either, because the Delica wasn't designed to do this and it started to rain, so I had to get the tent up fast. Furthermore, this was exactly the kind of stuff I carried the D3 for. As a beater back up to my Millie. :D

I once tried to abuse a D4 SE, while digging out and cutting roots of a large vine plant. It involved quite a bit of prying and cutting through roots in the dirt. No tip breaking, bladeplay or anything. The knife needed a complete disassembly for cleaning and oiling, but nothing else.

Wouter

[MAT888]

Well after re-reading my earlier post you guys might get the impression that i walk arround with blades with 1 inch topped of. :o

:D I reassure you that is not the case. the tips just get blunted and i have to reshape them a little to splinter pick again. Sometimes cutting cardboard boxes containing steel goods i hit metal with the tip causing blunting. Rather this then breaking boxcutters these thin blades can snap of and go fly arround. Left in opened boxes to injure someone else. I don't like cheap boxcutters and prefere a descent knive.
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