nail nick cutting - advice needed

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Corso
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nail nick cutting - advice needed

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I've a couple of old folders where the nail nick is shot

I'd like to deepen them

what tool would you advise I use?
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Doc B
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Re: nail nick cutting - advice needed

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I've tried a disc, on a drill press...like this...
It's not as easy as it looks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdAREtng-Wk
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XX Case XX
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Re: nail nick cutting - advice needed

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Doc B wrote: Sat Mar 07, 2020 11:56 pm It's not as easy as it looks...
After watching that, if I need that done, I'll send it out. I ain't trying that. I'll mess that up for sure.

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I have tried different tools on my Dremel to deepen a nail nick. None of them
worked well at all ( I tried it first on an old knife).

I tried to get Case to to do it since after all it was their fault at manufacture.
They would not do it.

I finally got one of the guys here at AAPK to do it for me. Turned out well.

Moral of the story if you do not have a lot of tools to work on knives give it to someone else.

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Corso
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Re: nail nick cutting - advice needed

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Thanks for the advice

Not real woth the expense sending it to a cutlers - maybe the solution will be to easy open the handle rather than try and improve the nail nick
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