Noooooooo!

[clipiteer]

The Spydie product catalog says that there is "nothing delicate about the Delica"....except the damn tip! Sadly, now the tip of my Delica is gone about 1/16 of an inch from the end. This may have been my fault, but I had expected more from the knife.(out of boredom, I was sticking it in some plywood and pulled/jerked it out at an angle when the tip snapped) Since not much is missing from the tip, I was able to put a makeshift point on it with my sharpmaker. It is still my primary EDC, and one awesome knife, even without the tip.



-Clip

[Tom Percy]

Send it in to the warrenty guys. For a small fee they will re-grind the blade, to a remove the damaged area, giving a slightly shorter length, which should give you a stonger tip. At least that's what they did with my Endura II.

[RLR]

if you grind the tip into a curve (i.e. upsweep the point) you'll have a stronger tip and more useful, IMHO... I did it because the needle tip on my Delica always blunted, so grind away... takes about 10 minutes...

[ftkinney]

i did the same thing to a gerber gator and regound the tip and everybodies right: i is a stronger tip

FTK

[br44]

You can use a dremel and remove steel from the top of the blade. Contour it to the broken part. This way, you don't have to mess with the grind. I've done this to many of my own and my friends knives. It gives you a nice sharp point.

[Tom Percy]

I have repaired knives in this fashion as well. But for all that work, I found that that Spyderco does a better job with less effort on my part.

[RLR]

Benchstones people, benchstones. If you get a Norton coarse or medium, you can remove more than enough metal in the blink of an eye. I usually use a medium to reprofile, fine to clean up the edge, arkansas to further polish and finish with a strop. I don't know grits or ratings: I just go with the feel until I get it right. Dremels can produce enough friction to affect temper, BUT... I do use a Dremel at low speeds with a 1/8 inch Gatco mini crock stick white ceramic (from some pocket sharpener I got) to get a perfect edge on serrations. LOW SPEED! I have seen people 'burn' edges with rotary tools.

RLR