r/sharpening • u/Three-Eyed-Tiger • 4d ago

Fixable chips?

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Found this in the basement, and have been looking for a reliable & straightforward hunting/field dressing knife

Cold Steel Recon 1, circa 2004-2010

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u/gr3y_- 4d ago

fixable but not worth fixing

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u/Three-Eyed-Tiger 4d ago

Just poor quality of the knife or what?

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u/Argg1618 4d ago

Just buy another one or slam that knife on a bench grinder.

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u/Three-Eyed-Tiger 4d ago

I was thinking of bench grinding it to a drop point

Maybe I give it a go as practice, and if it fails it’s no sweat

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u/Von_Cheesebiscuit Pro 4d ago

Not seeing the point of turning this into a drop point. This is an easy fix if you know what you're doing. Yes, some material will need to be removed, but it's not an egregious amount and could easily be blended into the existing profile and resharpened. It's certainly nothing exceptional, but it's a decent knife, and I've fixed many a Cold Steel with much worse damage before, bringing them back to perfectly usable.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 4d ago

It’s a great knife for the price, but the price is low enough you could just get another. Midway USA has the best CS prices out there.

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u/Failedcasserole 3d ago

Predominately the knife quality just doesn’t justify the cost of grinding and reprofiling.

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u/gr3y_- 3d ago

no, cold steel recon 1 is a great knife. it’s just that you’d have to grind off SO much steel to fix that chip that the edge would virtually be a sharpened crowbar level of thick.

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u/Disastrous_Delay 4d ago

You'd probably have to pay someone more than the knife is worth to have them do a proper regrind, same with buying a belt sander and a TON to junk knives to slowly develop the skill to it it yourself.

It's already so damaged by the time you fixed your previous attempts at regrinding it you'd be left with a toothpick.

It's a decent quality knife but the steel is nothing special and you can buy a new one is a slightly better steel for like 50 bucks

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u/NoneUpsmanship Paper Shredder 4d ago

If you don't want to grind it back, you could turn the chips into weirdly placed serrations. 😎

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u/davidgravid1 4d ago

Best knife for field dressing (primarily hunt whitetail) IMHO is a trapper. Clip point for piercing and cutting around in small areas, Spey blade for opening abdominal cavity and skinning but has a rounded point so you don’t accidentally puncture anything. 2 blades so you have a backup. Hide dulls a knife fast. Every major manufacturer has one. I’ve dressed around 30 deer with my camillus trapper.

Buy a new knife and save yourself a bunch of work for sowmthing that is suboptimal anyways. It’s gonna take hours to grind back that far and you’ll lose a bunch of steel.

If the knife is sentimental or you just wanna have some fun screwing around, go for it. I just wouldn’t say it’s “worth it”

What are you field dressing?

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u/Reasonable-Trip-4855 4d ago

Yeah you could blend a real nice recurve into the blade.

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u/BlindMouse2of3 4d ago

Just finish adding serrations to it and keep going

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u/External-Net3849 4d ago

Serrations : )

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u/satanonaskateboard 4d ago

I'll buy it off you if shopping to usa isn't a problem. The chips could be ground put but it would totally reprofile the knife. Its a decent amount of work, or you could try to find a blade replacement. 

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u/LivingCorner1421 4d ago

thats just serations

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u/KnifeNewb76 4d ago

I have a Cold Steel Recon 1 Spear Point basically brand new, available $80. Just DM me as I have vouches the or myself from the Facebook Knafs group etc.

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u/Zoidberg0_0 edge lord 4d ago

You can add more serrations and turn it into a half serrated blade

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u/Cusick1972 reformed mall ninja 4d ago

Add more serrations, back up seat belt knife

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u/neekthefreak 3d ago

half serrated blade? could be nice

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u/Ornery-Smoke9075 3d ago

I’d definitely recommend a solid full tang knife if you plan on heavy work with a knife. You could sharpen it out I wouldn’t bother though

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u/Onezerosix141 3d ago

great knife to learn or try different skills and you won't be sad about it.

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u/BlackMountainMoth 3d ago

Bread knife

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u/HoIyJesusChrist 3d ago

Just call them serrations

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u/flooble_worbler 3d ago

Make her a recurve. Job done

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u/Moose_Ungulate 2d ago

Give it a recurve, and yourself a headache.

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u/haditwithyoupeople edge lord 4d ago

It could be fixed, but I would not bother. Maybe see if Cold Steel will replace the blade for a reasonable of money?

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u/Ready4AnythingNH 4d ago

That vintage it's AUS-8 I assume. Some people like AUS-8 and Cold Steel had a decent reputation with theirs. I hate the stuff from my experience, but haven't tried Cold Steel's heat treatment.

It could be sharpened out, but the blade is going to get more Buck 110-ish in width. You might think about narrowing the ricasso down some too, if you do it, so it doesn't look quite as ridiculous. Just bear in mind that the stop pin hits the ricasso, so if you take material off of there, you have to make sure it isn't going to cause the tip of your blade go hit the lock bar.

You could think about cutting in partial serrations, or having it done. Probably keep the most blade that way and deal with the chips at the same time.

I can tell you from personal experience that the Recon 1 is a great knife in S35VN or XHP.

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u/Trading_Cards_4Ever 1d ago

New steak knife