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How old is your brother? If he is anywhere between the ages 5-12, this may be explained by that... Horrible!

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HOPEFULLY he has learned his lesson, but by the knife not costing him anything, perhaps not.

He's 23 and he says he was trying to get a sharpened swedge then just went overboard and went to get a tip and a shallow angle. I gotta say he did make a nice edge and tip. I sharpened it and it gets sharper better than before.
But yea he's learnt his lesson. His next project is a kabar zombie killer famine.