Removing a...dent in blade

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colin8

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My friend, being the genius that he is, decided to bang together my Spyderco Endura and my Benchmade 32 ("I wanted to see what it would be like in a knife fight"), and now I am left with two knives that have dents in them. I have spent over an hour with each one on the Sharpmaker, using the diamond rods, but it just doesn't look like they are coming out. I'm assuming I just haven't removed enough steel, but the thing is that I haven't seen any noticeable difference at all since I began... Any ideas?

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Go to your local Ace Hardware store and by a coarse carborundum benchstone for about $10 (probably less). That nick looks deep enough to take a week to get out on a SharpMaker, even with the diamond rods.

Oh, and stop referring to the person who did this as a friend. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
 
Hi,

You are just going to have to remove enough steel to make it go away. It will seem like you are making little headway, then all of a sudden, it will start to disappear. I would recommend a coarser stone, or a coarse diamond lap if you want to go faster. Sharpmakers, while good at maintaining an edge, aren't so good for whole-sale removal of steel.

Keep rubbing, you'll get it eventually.

dalee
 
Whatever you do, don't get frustrated and start pressing harder against the stone or sharpener. All you'll get is an uneven edge.
 
Just wanted to second (third? fourth?) the posters above. Better to get a really coarse hone and then refine on the SM than try to do it all with the SM.
 
I say, unless it really bothers you or has a serious negative impact on your cutting chores, leave it and let it disappear slowly with each fresh sharpening. Depending on your usage level, it could take quite some time but why "throw away" all that fine steel to correct less than a millimeter of edge damage?

Just my 2 cents :)
 
i would let it go also until it needs sharpening again. if you are cutting something quite often that catches on the nick then take the nick out.
 
In California surfing jargon, that would be called a "ding".


And if my "friend" had put a ding in my knife, he would end up with a ding a la NCIS.
 
knarfeng said:
In California surfing jargon, that would be called a "ding".


And if my "friend" had put a ding in my knife, he would end up with a ding a la NCIS.
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Haha yeah I wasn't sure what to call it... a dent, ding, nick, whatever...

Thanks for the advice everyone, I think I'm probably not going to do anything and just let it come out from natural sharpening.
 
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