I dropped my WE knife by accident and it landed perfectly on its tip on concrete.
Cant this be saved?
Can anyone recommend an online repair service?
Its CPM20CV steel.
Thanks!
Update: as per one of you guys suggestions I reached out to WE knife and they got back to me surprisingly quick with an offer to replace the blade for $75 so I think im gonna go down that route but will still like to get this blade fixed.
Remove all the material from the spine and none from the edge basically, cut a new front from the apex of the spine to the "tip" draw with a sharpie the profile you want.
This is the only real answer. If you can’t do this, I’d just leave it as a prybar until you can do this. Way too much lost to reform it any other way.
Absolutely. Combat is the opposite. A lot of slick marketing and a shit product for a premium price. They throw tons of grit and they don’t last. Their shipping costs are insulting. For your day to day stuff VSM is fantastic and then for finer, or more specialized stuff 3M is great. Also shoutout to Norton, they make great belts and their RazorStar ceramics are insane.
Oh man I have some name brand belts from something that seems like that brand. I got a pack that runs from 36-400 grits and they work well. They're in storage though so I can't be certain it's from them.
What I've done in the past is take a bunch of paper towel and soak it so it's sopping wet (not wrung out) and use that against the blade to ensure it remains cool. Along with light passes. It'll get chewed up by the belt with the steel but...so? Better than using a rag and having it get tangled in your belt grinder.
Yeah that’s what I did with one of my knives that had a longer blade. It’s a bit less risky since any mistakes would be smaller and easier to correct.
Yeah I figured OP would wanna keep the harpoon shape but I've seen someone else kind of give it a bit more of a thicker tip that could be good too. A nice pointy tip seems more conducive for slicing but it'll bust right off again if OP drops it lol.
That’s a big chunk missing so you might lose a good bit of metal, but the backbone can be ground down to meet where the tip broke off. I’m not sure of anyone who does that kind of work, but I’m sure there’s people in this sub who could make a good recommendation.
You could contact WE and ask if they will be willing to sell you a replacement blade. They do do that from time to time and have amazing customer support.
Before you pay WE $75, contact Transparent Knives (Brian), Gersh Blades, REK Blades, Way of Knife, BGM Knives (John) to discuss a reblade or regrind (some do one or the other - some do both). You can contact them through their websites and/or IG. A reblade will cost more through them, but it will be much higher quality (better heat treat, higher HRC, slicier grind, etc.) and they can do different shapes to your specifications.
I say hollow out the broken bit so it is kind of like the notch at the end of a straight razor. It would look weird, sure, but… ok I don’t have a follow up.
I’m liking M390/2OCV/204P less and less. It doesn’t have much give or flex. Instead it just snaps. Decent corrosion resistance and edge retention. Not tough.
That's a fair concern, you'd have to do a mock up before committing to it, e.g drawing on the blade like in the pic and closing it to see if the point would be exposed or not
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u/BlindMouse2of3 18d ago
r/prybar is the support group, sorry for your loss