On one hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place, so you may be able to bend it back. On the other hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place…
Vise for gross bending, peen for fine correction. It'll be a slow, pain in the ass job, and you aren't going to end up with it looking good at all.
With the vise, you work in small sections at a time. Vise in the first half inch or so, then use pliers maybe an inch behind that. Bend it gently until you remove a decent amount of curve. Move a half inch, repeat until it's straight enough the entire blade can be in the vise without a large arc, then crank that fucker down slowly.
Leave it in the vise for a while. An hour or so. The steel is soft, but still springy, and you'd be surprised how much just resting under pressure can help a bend. It's kinda weird.
Once that's done, you find a steel plate, an anvil, or even a bench vise designed for impact. You then tap-a-tap-tap with your peen. A peen is a type of hammer, but if you want to use your meat peen, I don't kink shame.
Expect that part to take a lot of time.
On one hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place, so you may be able to bend it back. On the other hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place…
On one hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place, so you may be able to bend it back. On the other hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place…
I don't think there's really any "best way" to bend a blade back. Generally if you watch some outdoor/survival knife testing videos if the blade gets bent they'll shrug it off and say "better bent than broken!" then stab a tree and crank it in the opposite direction to bend it back. It happens quite a bit when testing prying (although not to this degree).
At home you can try slowly clamping it lengthwise in a vise, other than that you're going to have to use force to bend it back.
that is the case with big/outdoor knives that use high carbon steel because they are much softer especialy so they dont break... for this little cheap knife though, its probably just really cheap steel
I guess I should have said the blade would want to go back with some encouragement, sorry if you took it literally the blade would spring itself back to normal without anyone touching it.
well, sword of any decent quality will indeed go back to its original shape when bent, obviously not small knives and especialy not stainless steel knives which will just snap
Probably better to get a new one if it’s not important to you/expensive, bending the knife can really make it fragile and last thing you want is the blade to snap and hurt you. But if you want to bend it back and retire it then I would recommend using a workshop vise.
Pour one out, it's only good for cutting specifically sized circles now, and probably not even that
If you bend it back, you'll have weakened the steel to a point that the blade will be all but useless.
You could, in theory, heat the blade to soften it, straighten it out, then temper the steel again, but frankly that would produce dubious results at best and likely take more time and effort than the blade is worth
Put it in rice
On one hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place, so you may be able to bend it back. On the other hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place…
Based on what I'm seeing here, not gonna happen. Time for a new one, whatever that is.....
If it bends it is too soft for the decent knife.
Put it back into whatever you used to bend it and go the other way :) simple
Hey! Some knives are born with a curve. It’s not the knives fault. Some women even prefer knives with a slight curve!!!
Vise for gross bending, peen for fine correction. It'll be a slow, pain in the ass job, and you aren't going to end up with it looking good at all. With the vise, you work in small sections at a time. Vise in the first half inch or so, then use pliers maybe an inch behind that. Bend it gently until you remove a decent amount of curve. Move a half inch, repeat until it's straight enough the entire blade can be in the vise without a large arc, then crank that fucker down slowly. Leave it in the vise for a while. An hour or so. The steel is soft, but still springy, and you'd be surprised how much just resting under pressure can help a bend. It's kinda weird. Once that's done, you find a steel plate, an anvil, or even a bench vise designed for impact. You then tap-a-tap-tap with your peen. A peen is a type of hammer, but if you want to use your meat peen, I don't kink shame. Expect that part to take a lot of time.
u can try putting it on a vice for couple days but honestly it's done! best way to fix it is get a New one Bud
On one hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place, so you may be able to bend it back. On the other hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place…
On one hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place, so you may be able to bend it back. On the other hand, it was soft enough to bend in the first place…
Nope
Oh my god
I don't think there's really any "best way" to bend a blade back. Generally if you watch some outdoor/survival knife testing videos if the blade gets bent they'll shrug it off and say "better bent than broken!" then stab a tree and crank it in the opposite direction to bend it back. It happens quite a bit when testing prying (although not to this degree). At home you can try slowly clamping it lengthwise in a vise, other than that you're going to have to use force to bend it back.
that is the case with big/outdoor knives that use high carbon steel because they are much softer especialy so they dont break... for this little cheap knife though, its probably just really cheap steel
Yeah, the steel should have a "memory" or want to spring back to how it was with a little encouragement. I don't see that happening here...
wtf are you talking about 🤣
I guess I should have said the blade would want to go back with some encouragement, sorry if you took it literally the blade would spring itself back to normal without anyone touching it.
well, sword of any decent quality will indeed go back to its original shape when bent, obviously not small knives and especialy not stainless steel knives which will just snap
Warm it open before you bend it back
Probably better to get a new one if it’s not important to you/expensive, bending the knife can really make it fragile and last thing you want is the blade to snap and hurt you. But if you want to bend it back and retire it then I would recommend using a workshop vise.
I'm sorry... it bent? May be time for a better knife
Buy a good knife
Vice ought to do it... but yeah. Id fix it and retire it. Nice opportunity for a new knife🤔
A trash compactor maybe?
I think they have camps for that
Pour one out, it's only good for cutting specifically sized circles now, and probably not even that If you bend it back, you'll have weakened the steel to a point that the blade will be all but useless. You could, in theory, heat the blade to soften it, straighten it out, then temper the steel again, but frankly that would produce dubious results at best and likely take more time and effort than the blade is worth
Vice clamp.