Anything worse than a bad grind on an expensive knife?

A.L. said:
Not true.
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brownshoe said:
That has not been my experience with Spyderco. They all sharpen fine at both the 30 or 40 degree angle on the Spyderco Sharpmaker. That’s how they are designed.
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You would probably never notice on a Sharpmaker, since there's a degree of inaccuracy inherent in how it's used. If you use a fixed-angle system (KME, TSPROF, Worksharp Precision Adjust, etc.) and an angle cube, it becomes obvious.
The Sharpmaker was the first "serious" sharpener I got, and it's okay for light maintenance, but it's pretty limited beyond that.
And if you don't have the CBN or diamond rods, it's not doing more than a microbevel for most high-end steels.
 
Wondering what else might be wrong with the knife, with that standard of QC.
 
OrangeBlueOrangeBlue said:
You would probably never notice on a Sharpmaker, since there's a degree of inaccuracy inherent in how it's used. If you use a fixed-angle system (KME, TSPROF, Worksharp Precision Adjust, etc.) and an angle cube, it becomes obvious.
The Sharpmaker was the first "serious" sharpener I got, and it's okay for light maintenance, but it's pretty limited beyond that.
And if you don't have the CBN or diamond rods, it's not doing more than a microbevel for most high-end steels.
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All true, but Spyderco-USA puts on a good edge in my experience. It matches their sharpening system, so they “walk the talk”. If you want to see a factory edge that’s uneven, try GEC, but soft 1095 is easy to reprofile.
 
brownshoe said:
That has not been my experience with Spyderco. They all sharpen fine at both the 30 or 40 degree angle on the Spyderco Sharpmaker. That’s how they are designed.
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I have had a lot of Spydercos and have personally never seen a grind that was BAD. Sure I have seen super small imperfections, but nothing that was not inline with with a knife at that price point that was coming out of a factory.
 
upstate88 said:
I have had a lot of Spydercos and have personally never seen a grind that was BAD. Sure I have seen super small imperfections, but nothing that was not inline with with a knife at that price point that was coming out of a factory.
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Same, unless you are seriously interested in having a really good edge right at the heel of the knife, which I am not.
 
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