Got this as a gift second handed and would like to sharpen it and make it usable again. The serrated top part started to just break off, so I am cautious about potential metal parts in my food. Any tips welcome, thanks.
Got this as a gift second handed and would like to sharpen it and make it usable again. The serrated top part started to just break off, so I am cautious about potential metal parts in my food. Any tips welcome, thanks.
Depends on your idea of big bucks. I don’t think grinding would be too expensive. If you happen to be anywhere near the Milwaukee area I know exactly the guy you could take it to.
Sharpening should be manageable, even DIY. Getting a blacksmith to forge in a new blade sounds very specialised and pricy, but worth asking around if the sharpening won’t work
Yeah, and if it’s like a fairly cheap knife or something, you could get a dude with a welder and have him weld in the missing steel, and then re-profile and sharpen the blade.
That’s definitely more of a “make it work” fix rather than a “do it the right way” fix, though.
You should never weld a knife. It will ruin the hardening and temper. Just re-profiling the existing steel is a much better idea.
I mean, you can always re-temper as well, but now I do understand that that is going well beyond the pale of just grinding the metal down.
That being said, depending on the knife, it could have a relatively thin, harder edge and grinding it down could go into the softer core metal.
Heating, quenching, and tempering is not a great idea if it can be avoided. It stresses the metal and can introduce new weaknesses.
And very few knives will have a softer core. That requires extra work on the knife makers part, and is rarely worth it. And there are signs you could look for during the repair and reprofiling. So a decent knife maker should be able to tell if it will be an issue.