Advice on damaged knife

[Tyler C. Moore]

I have several of Lloyd Pendletons wonderful drop points. They are my AlL time favorite knives !!

I almost cried this past winter when I carried one of my perfect little ivory drop points, and it fell out of a duffle bag and onto the pavement! This was the result.

 


 


Lloyd is much older now, and due to some other reasons, i am not sure if sending it back to him is the best option.  Can this piece of ivory be saved, or does it need total replacing!! I guess its no longer a collector piece, just looking for options!

[tippit]

Tyler,
You could grind out that ding & taper the end on both sides, tunnel the top on both sides, or just keep it as a working knife with character. Total replacing would be to ruin/grind away all that beautiful ivory ...tippit

[Lamey]

could also get some acraglass gel epoxy. Also buy some of there colored dye,  they make several colors.  You could experiment mixing the white/brown until you get the color as close as possible.

At that point mix the dye/epoxy together and apply to the ding. Let set overnight then patiently sand it to conform with the handle.

If that don't work... you can always then go tippits route and re taper then butt end of the handle.

[Steve Nuckels]

I would not mess with it, and call it a character building incident.

Great looking knives!

Steve
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Potomac Forge
Member, W.F. Moran Jr. Museum & Foundation

[D.Ellis]

I'd leave it as is.......maybe take some extremely fine sandpaper(2000grit or so) and smooth the rough edges a bit if it is sharp on your hand. My <.02
Darcy

[tomsm44]

I'm with Steve and Darcy.  Leave it like it is.  Maybe embelish the story about how it happened a little to make it seem more exciting.      Way I heard it you were sliding down the side of a mountain bow-in-hand trying to stay ahead of an angry grizzly just long enough to get an arrow nocked for a perfect throat shot and you hit your knife on a rock in the process.  :D

[SKITCH]

He'll I thought that was the spot where the HUGE Grizzly's claw hit him as it tried to catch him just before he went over the side of the mountain.  The knife actually kept the Griz from catching him and saved his life!!!!!

[tomsm44]

Well, I heard my version from a pretty unreliable source.  Not naming names since he already posted on this topic, but you can rarely trust anything he says.

[Mechslasher]

i have some scrap ivory that might be ground to fit and epoxy in place.