My first tip repair

I recently discovered that not even the toughest knife is "wifeproof" ave. After watching me film a couple of videos with my knives my wife wanted to make a video herself so I handed her my toughest knife (Munetoshi Butcher, a beast) and a couple of pork chops, pumped my chest and told her to go ahead and take the bone out... Not even 10 seconds later I was regretting my naivety . To describe the facts, the tip of the knife was pressed hard against the cutting surface with some bodyweight behind it and then the knife was vigorously twisted back and forth while I thought "she is really trying hard to break it..." crick! Oh the horror! tip was gone, stabbed in the cutting matt.
I took it in strides though, because in all honestly it was my fault. Thinking back all she has ever used for that task is a serrated $1 knife that is more flexible than an Olympic gymnast. And it made me feel bad that she was suffering for "ruining" one of my knives. I, of course couldn't sleep knowing there was a tip missing in one of my knives and she was feeling guilty about it so I took out the AI220 and decided to give it a shot at my first tip repair. I forgot to take a picture before I started but there were about 2.5 mm missing.
Here is a picture of the tip about 20-25 min into the AI220 action


And after I did the repair and sloppily refinished the blade





It took less than I originally expected (everything including resharpening was about 1 h or so for a guy without experience). And I'm quite happy of how it came out. Nothing to brag about and certainly nothing compared to the stuff some people here has done but not too bad for a first try and it gave me confidence that this sort of thing is not as scary as I thought.
Cheers,
Carlos

PS: it put a smile in her face seeing the problem gone so that was very rewarding

 

Looks like a fine repair Carlos. Visually, it looks original. What was you stone progression? Did you work from top and blade edge to create a new tip?

 

Thanks, I used AI220 for the repair, did a bit of thinning near the tip and mostly worked on adjusting the upsweep of the edge profile but as you noted I also worked a little bit from the top (though this was minor).
After the AI220 I used the AI1000 to work on the whole edge and finished it with an Aoto (Red).