I dropped my relatively new opinel knife and it stuck into the floor bending the tip at a 90 degree angle. Is there any creative way to straighten it out? I'm traveling long-term and have access to zero tools. It's still fully functional but totally annoying. Alternative is trashing it and buying new for $10. I only use it for chopping vegetables and cutting meat for which it's fabulous.
>falling for opimemetry buying knives that aren't made out of tinfoil next time
gind it off against brick or stone wall
>>2997527Just find someone with a hammer, shouldn't be too difficult
>>2997527sharpen it
>>2997527It'll likely snap if you try to bend it back. Easiest, quickest fix? Grind from the back/spine of the knife tip at an angle, towards the tip. You can snap the bent portion off or just grind it off. You can do this with a file. I did it to a cheap knife with similar damage, it creates a milder version of "reverse tanto" tip, see pic
>>2997527Did the same OP, I walked out to the garage and laid the bent bit against a flat block of steel and gave it some love taps with a smooth faced hammer.Being carbon steel it of course broke off, so I redressed the tip as >2997588 suggested.
>>2997527Lay it flat on a table and slide a ceramic coffee mug over it to flatten it out.
>>2997605Thank you this worked, broke the problem area off. Thank you DIY you saved my knife from the landfill
>>2997661Would you really have ditched the knife over a 1mm rolled tip?The fuck is wrong with you?
>>2997664I use it several times per day and every time I wipe it off I get annoyed. Peace of mind is worth $10
>>2997527im going on drop 2 or 3 right now lol
Do none of you guys own a belt sander, bench grinder or hell even an angle grinder or file???
>>2998136Nice reading comprehension retard.
Is it carbon or stainless?If it's carbon you're better off grinding it back, sandpaper, fine cement, a file, whatever. If you try to bend it it'll snap further down, and you probably can't retemper it like you would in a shop. If it's stainless, heat the tip with a lighter then put it against something metal and gently tap the flat side until it's straighter. Don't try to retemper it,
>>2998136So everyone on here that broke their tip off with pliers or smashed it on o rock or used a ceramic mug was also "traveling long term?" And you had to ask on a forum how to get rid of a bent tip on a knife... You have zero space to call anyone else retarded.
>>2997527>Alternative is trashing it and buying new for $10.niggaJust find a flat piece of metal or rock or something and straighten the tip out with that. If it breaks off in the process just sharpen it.How do you make it to the DIY board and seriously contemplate trashing a perfectly good knife over something this easily fixable.
>>2998290How do you make it to the DIY board and seriously go into a pointless rage without reading the op and a few posts down where someone did read the op and gave a solution which fixed ops problem days ago?
>>2998294i posted a funnier image than you therefore I win the argument by default
>>2997527Hammer.
>>2998332the best kind of correct
