Of course, not a cheap Target parer, but one of my Wusthoffs, and as luck would have it, it landed exactly point down on the tile, and is now bent over about an eighth inch, maybe a little less. BF doesn’t want to touch it. Can it be repaired, and I guess I must take it to a knifemaker?
A bent tip cannot be repaired. All you can do is have it reground, which will change the tip angle.
I have an entire set of Wusthof steak knives that have managed to acquire curled tips and the only reasonable solution I have is to grind them into little samurai-style angle tips.
I think having the tip reground (which will inevitably change the original profile, of course) is your only option - if you have a good local sharpening service they might be able to do the job.
Take it to someone who knows what they are doing. Grinding down the point can change the tempering.
Thanks, learned 2 things, take my WUSTOF KNIFE to a pro, and PROOF my g-d posts.
Happy ho ho to you all.
Should have quit while you were ahead 
Call Wusthof tomorrow and see what advice they may have. Warranty-wise, you’re probably out of luck, but they may be able to repair it.
Their number is 1-800-289-9878.
Pretty good username-post combo.
I don’t think it can be “repaired”. I think the bent part just has to be ground off, and then the whole thing reshaped.
I use Wustofs, but somewhere along the way I had a kind of cheapo 7" Henckels chef’s knife that my wife used now and then - one day she decided to use it to slip under the edge of the lid of a peanut butter jar to loosen it and snapped off about 1/4" of the tip.
Took it to a knife guy to have it sharpened, thinking for her purposes, the tip wasn’t important. When I picked it up, he had ground the whole thing down and reshaped it. Now it’s about a 5" chef’s knife, which is actually fine.
Buy a new knife.
Image is clearly important to you, and you clearly know nothing about knives other than which ones can be bragged about having.
You’re better off than I am; I dropped the 5" Wusthof Gourmet (stamped) utility knife that I have, and the tip just plain broke off.
FWIW, the best knives I have are Mercer Genesis. My 8" chef knife is as good or better than my wife’s 7" Wusthof Classic santoku, and my Genesis paring knife seems almost too nice to be a paring knife, but only cost $20.
:rolleyes:
dnooman, this is threadshitting. Knock it off.