HOW TO FIX A BROKEN TIP

Always come down from the spine! And for any heavy repairs like this one, don't be shy to bring it by the shop to get tuned up!
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[@sparklepugtea]

“Now this is going to show my point really well” idk if that was an intentional pun but 😂

[@carlpanzram7081]

I don't think it was on purpose, he honestly doesn't seem to be too sharp.

[@jawadtabrez5370]

There are no accidents in YT shorts - Master Oogway

[@eddie826]

TIL about how it is possible to essentially circumcise a knife to 'fix the tip'

[@44trees.]

You sir have WON the internet😂🤣😂💀🕊️

[@Milanin8]

I guess it cut deep?

[@boprosplumbing]

Also for folding knives... If you curve the tip to the spine, you might have an exposed knife point while folded, where-as the original blade edge would generally conceal into the handle.

[@Smartass-pl3nx]

My grandpa obsessively sharpened his knife every day even if he didn’t use it and that eventually happened. The blade is like a toothpick now. He uses a bench grinder to sharpen his knives (big no no)

[@jackass123455]

@@Smartass-pl3nx done properly a bench grinder can reset your edge. my father worked in an abitoir he'd grind and sharpen his knives regulary first on the bench grinder than on a hand stone. his knives were so sharp they'd run through the hide and meat with zero effort. to this day some nearly 20 years later some of his butchering knives are sharp enough slice a tomato like paper

[@44trees.]

Fly high lil bro🪦🙏🏳️‍🌈🕊️🕊️

[@alfaromeo1819]

​@@jackass123455Aware to put special glove ,good in case something went wrong

[@gaznet1107]

I was just about to fix my knife tip. Good timing and a good tip.

[@thomaspayne6866]

He said good tip

[@randymarsh8936]

Don't let it got hot as you grind it. If it hurts to touch you are softening the steel. Keep it wet as you go

[@mud4309]

great tip bro 😘

[@therealKrak]

@@randymarsh8936 But shouldn't it rather be sawed off with a metal saw first?

[@randymarsh8936]

@@therealKrak I've made a bunch of knives, forged and cut out both.. it's hard to cut through a hardened blade you just ruin the saw. The best thing to do is use a low speed grinder and keep the tip cold with water. I have a belt grinder made specifically for knives that has a water drip on it and adjustable speed. When I started all I had was a bench grinder and a cup of water lol

[@ganjalfcreamcorn8438]

I 100% would have done it the first way... I always suspected I was dumb, now I know that I actually am. thanks youtube.

[@dalemiller5271]

You’re smart enough to lean a better way the next time.

[@Krzyslawus]

if you realize you are stupid i would guess u are above average

[@MikehMike01]

I wouldn’t have ever thought of the wrong way, it’s so counterintuitive

[@farkasmactavish]

​@@dalemiller5271What beter way is there than learning before making a mistake??

[@dalemiller5271]

@@farkasmactavish learning from others brave enough to try, fail, and keep trying is one way to go. Thank goodness for those brave people, huh.

[@aaronyoung8301]

Reminds me that they did to Katana or simalar with broken tips. Grind the edge back, you lose the hard edge; grind the spine back, it looks funny, but you still have a hard edge

[@Ren-lx8wv]

Really depends. If it’s a sandwich construction with a different edge steel or differentially hardened then you don’t have a choice. Grind the spine to the edge. But if it’s a mono steel and mono tempered it’s up to preference. Grinding the spine will be faster. But you could def grind the edge side to meet the spine it’s much more work to do well but it depends on what you want the end blade shape to be. Not everyone wants a reverse tanto tip.

[@fireemblemistrash75]

@@Ren-lx8wvbased bunny girl senpai pfp

[@lindboknifeandtool]

And when you cut it, don’t overheat it! If you’re using abrasive discs, you’re almost certainly going to do what I do is score a line all the way around where you’re going to cut, then put the blade in a soft jaw vice and use light taps from a small hammer to break it off. Maintaining the heat treatment in your tip is the most important part IMO. If the steel gets a straw color, you’re already too far gone seconds ago.

[@christopherkarr1872]

Wonder if you can heat-stress the score line in a safe way? Rag on the edge-side of the score line, then torch the other edge to just before the heat reaches the score visibly, then quench, maybe?

[@lindboknifeandtool]

@@christopherkarr1872that’s not a bad idea, I’m mostly relying on the fact that the blade is already heat treated. That would be risky but if you could pull it off it might be optimal. At least easier to break off.

[@christopherkarr1872]

@@lindboknifeandtool I'm right there with ya - it's make me nervous to try it (at least the first time) on anything of any real value.

[@roospike]

Now you have a "K" tip Kiritsuke. ✌😁 🔪🔪

[@kermitthefrog3207]

Instructions unclear: wrong tip sharpened

[@jwalster9412]

Tongue, right? 😂🤨😯

[@Very.not.gay.at.all.totally]

Huge disclaimer: It does *_NOT_* work for all kinds of tips, it was an extremely painful and embarrassing trip to the hospital

[@brookelord3448]

It depends on the knife. For a knife used to cut raw meat, the correct way is the way that you said was wrong. More of a curve is better to cut muscle tissue so it would be more useful. It won't gouge your stone if you know how to sharpen a curved blade.

[@marcusborderlands6177]

Ooorrrrr, just draw the blade along the meat like you would anyways? You totally fuck up the grind of the knife the first way.

[@icedtea9394]

instructions unclear i now have a triangle cut out of my knife

[@3_or_more_characters971]

I don't think we have to imagine something to be broken if its actually broken😂

[@hateferd]

Friend did exactly that on my request on a Cold Steel Bushman with a broken tip, knife point is actually much stronger now than the original.

[@hateferd]

He used a cnc-machine to cut it, btw.

[@majormanfredrex]

The first knife I repaired was a Plain old Kershaw Black Gulch folder. I was twelve years old at the time but did this instinctively, cutting back from the spine of the blade, rather than the edge. I went to a friend's house and worked in his dad's garage because we had no tools at home except a jack, a lug wrench and gardening implements.

[@ZuperZocker]

And here we've been just using the one knife with the broken tip

[@Loppy_Hausen]

My favorite part is that he didn't make me watch him break a perfectly good knife just to have an edge on the algorithm.

[@Canadianvoice]

Yeah What tools do you need: How do you do that? Like i have more questions than answers

[@drewlop]

Yeah, good point about removing material from the spine, not the cutting edge, but a quick mention of how to remove material would make this short better For what it's worth I'm guessing you'd want to use a grinder

[@MegaSPAZ2010]

If you don't have the ability to think critically about how to apply learned information you does not have the ability to think critically about how to do it safely, just buy a new knife.

[@drewlop]

@@MegaSPAZ2010 that's a pretty harsh conclusion to jump to. It's an explainer video, it's reasonable to expect explanations. It's also good to apply critical thinking to one's own abilities; sure you can come up with your own solutions, but an expert has experience, which no amount of critical thinking can be a substitute for. No need to be so mean to strangers. Maybe think more critically about the context before commenting next time

[@robmd887]

@@drewlopa grinder would ruin the temper of the knife if I remember correctly

[@infernaldaedra]

A grinding setup

[@ivrgn1720]

Wow, that was actually helpful. Ty, my man.

[@Floris_VI]

Thats actually really clever, thank man

[@jakefitzgerald3114]

Love how you don’t teach how to fix it but just how to put tape and draw on it thanks bro

[@codeykershaw8579]

I was about to comment something along these lines 😂

[@RazorSharpMuenchen]

Thanks for the tip! I always did it like that but nice to see that I was right

[@DaTruff4real]

Gives new meaning to just the tip

[@subsonicdeathmonkey]

So helpful. Thank you! I have a few broken tipped knives in my collection.

[@jakubbejger4945]

I have mini deba with 5mm missing, that will be fun

[@theimperfectgod7140]

This is giving me a "work smarter not harder" vibe.

[@reeeeeeee.]

bro did the DayZ weapon durability animation 😂

[@itszod2129]

So simple yet so brilliant

[@GodlikeIridium]

That knife swap in the beginning 😂👌

[@user-lv4ne7nq1h]

Depends of the shape of the knife

[@TeritotheLegend]

WOW thanks for ACTUALLY showing us the entire way to do it

[@minuteman4199]

I've never broken the tip of a knife, was not aware this was a problem.

[@warriorson7979]

Genius!!😌😌

[@ThatOneOddGuy]

This is my first big lesson in edge geometry

[@velvetypotato711]

"Lets imagine this tip is broken" No imagination needed. I can confirm that tip is broken.

[@MedievalSolutions]

Bro I didn't notice he flipped the knife and I thought the first example was grinding off the spine and was like "why the fuck is this wrong, what?"

[@RatRatRattyRatRat]

Me with an angle iron: "Well well well, if it isn't a new cleaver."

[@B0aws]

Realy good to know, thanks!

[@Voidboi223]

Instructions unclear: I used the wrong tip..

[@francobuzzetti9424]

definitely ALWAYS try to preserve the shape of the knife and just make it shorter .knives have a shape for a reason, but they do come in different sizes, don't try to reinvent the wheel

[@BarackObama.]

Thanks for this pro tip

[@TheMrJizzus]

Dude just made a bowie damascus

[@Jcc8t7]

Made this mistake once, that’s all it took to learn the lesson. Good advice for those that don’t want to learn on their own.

[@mfk12340]

Depends on how your knife is built. If its a forged knife with only stronger steel near the edge, then this method will not work. So it all depends on how your knife is built.

[@henryknox1186]

The spine. Ingenious

[@sdsd-ne9hg]

When i searched for "how to fix a broken tip" this was not what i was thinking, but this might prove helpful one day. I might need to go to the hospital.

[@SharpKnifeShop]

Godspeed :')

[@zenus4270]

-That’s one knife that didn’t survive the Nick Digiovanni treatment-

[@InFiNiTy5830]

Also best part of taking off the back is that you save the overall shape and length of blade which saves the money of buying a new knife more often

[@Kingleo212]

My dad bought a new sharp knife today I didnt realise how sharp it was I tried that paper cutting thing u do with knife to see how sharp it is and ended up cutting myself on my finger the cut was deep so quite painful so don't go near sharp knife kids 😊

[@adarshp.daniel3758]

On a Knife's Tip, guess I haven't found the video I need just yet.

[@joelplease9039]

That was a good tip for fixing the point on a knife with a broken tip

[@jtscustomcutlery317]

I feel so dumb! I’ve had a broken tip on my sheepdog XL for years because I thought the fist example was the only way 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@A-G-F-]

I dont think we have to imagine that the tip is broken on that one 😂

[@alexmontanus]

Kiritsuke tip, my favorite knife type.

[@EA_Kar]

Huh, great to know~ Any tips for when someone 'sharpens' the blade unevenly to have a dip just before the guard?

[@fabiomora6491]

-"Let's imagine this tip is broken" me: Done! that was really easy actually

[@Smartass-pl3nx]

Some knives don’t have the traditional tip, they just have a flat blade with no tip

[@noneyabidness9644]

How Japanese smiths did it. Several katanas, and other bladed weapons, had the soft spines ground to the hard edge into a point.

[@Frankovelli]

Took me a couple times to figure out what you were saying.

[@Derekyounan]

That first knife is beautiful

[@gerrylundergaard60]

Brilliant!

[@N0DDDD]

any recommendations on how to remove material safely from the spine?

[@thedazzlingape2006]

you remove material from both the spine and edge, that way the overall profile stays somewhat intact and you dont end up with a totally different knife.

[@WendiGonerLH]

I wonder if this is how the Seax got its tip shape, someone repairing a broken blade and the style just catching on

[@Cnichal]

Jim Crow never died.

[@ChefMeowMeow]

And now you have a new bunka 😎

[@usemorewood3184]

I don’t think my doctor would approve of this method

[@sagebrushhillbilly4655]

Well.... this made me smash the subscribe button.

[@theonethatcan7780]

I have a knife with a broken tip that i baptized with the name, "pointless" and it's one of the sharpest knife I have in my collection and my first ever knife

[@brekkoh]

can you just grind away a hardened steel knife with a typical grinding wheel or do you need special equipment?

[@fredshorrock377]

Absolutely right

[@Nick-cp8wf]

Great tip

[@biosaber585]

I always change the end grind, i basically take it the same way as if i broke it in the final stages kf making, regrind the blade entirely IF i can. In the event i cant i use your trick but i dislike it as usually its very obvious youve had to do major repair and often isnt a good option if you want to keep a knife aesthetically pleasing

[@beteljuice6629]

Oh that's cool My little paring knife I dropped it and did this to the tip I can actually fix it😊

[@darklordofsword]

It also means that you don't lose the hard cutting edge if you've got a differentials heat-treated blade.

[@coiledspringofapathy]

Do I need special tip tape? Won't that drawn on tip wear off after a few uses? How much shading do I use to highlight what is not the tip? So many questions....

[@Milkman4279]

That pretty much follows the original shape of the knife

[@StricklandAssistantManager]

Instructions unclear, foreskin remains missing.

[@Saltytoastplebs]

Now how do you remove the bit of the spine without heating the blade too much?

[@gregamericano1605]

Meanwhile normal people just buying a new knife

[@horehoundbasedcandy8736]

And thus the Saxon seax was a good idea 😂

[@scaredofghosts6813]

Yea that rounded tip is not useless..if you do it the first way you'd turn that meat carving knife into a chefs knife, a very useful and prctical design..the curve on a chef knife isnt useless, its a very deliberate design to facilitate a cutting technique called the 'rock chop'

[@anonydun82fgoog35]

This happens because there's always some idiot in the family who uses a knife to take the lid off a can

[@tesenaysamuels5161]

And so the Bunka was born

[@melanisticmandalorian8909]

Well done. That is how you fix it as a blacksmith or a grinder.

[@jesselantz9381]

Thank you

[@ryelor123]

Good information for the Brits.

[@rikospostmodernlife]

How to fix a knife with a broken tip: turn it into a seax

[@jellyfish1433]

Made the mistake of using the first method on a folding knife that I destroyed as a kid and tried to refurbish for practice and now I can’t even carry it because the tip is sticking out of the handle 😂 I have since learned from my mistakes and only remove material from the spine when possible

[@ElBach1y]

I broke my dad's knife like that, was the only time I got the belt

[@kaibarnwall6686]

If you kept knife.facing consistently one direction, upordown, it would be easier to follow

[@lukewilliams8548]

I can do that with a belt grinder and a bucket of water, but sharpening stones would literally take forever. What tool do you have in mind?

[@nicholasjay3932]

Will this work on a kramer?

[@fetusthegreat9797]

Well ya as long as you had a tanto style tip to begin with. Is just depends on what your knife was like before and how you use it

[@jack_fruit]

Instructions unclear. I used a grinder and lost the rest of my 🐓

[@rsa7767]

I think its just my imagination that the tip of that knif is actually broken.

[@samuels1123]

Or just dont and instead treat it as a smaller blade. Can't stab things anymore but where there once was a point is still a blade.

[@peterweber6963]

thankyou

[@SioxGreyWolf]

Ahh, the razorblade / box cutter method.

[@queentitaniaofthefae4846]

Is it possible to make the tip pointy while removing the knife spine Just for stabby purposes

[@Dreweldeenknives]

Nice !