buck 722

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samallan

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hello everyone. new to here and love knives. i use and carry a buck spitfire everyday, all day. i use it for everything. it is the best knife for me. except i have hard time cleaning up the edge being a recurve. has anyone made. straight edge out of it ? i’m thinking just grinding it straight?
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Recurves can be a challenge to sharpen. There are round hones like the EZE-LAP diamond rod or various ceramic rods, and you can find rounded hones used to sharpen woodworking gouges. Sometimes a narrow hone like DMT Diafolds will work OK. But just normal sharpening over time can straighten out the recurve a bit.
 
If I were to carry my 722’s I would sharpen out the recurve but I would use manual stones. I don’t recommend grinding out the recurve.
 
I've found that kitchen diamond 'steeling' rods with an oval cross-section are very effective on recurved edges. The width of the rod, usually around 3/4" - 1 inch or so, and its oval cross-section make for a larger contact area against the recurved edge, which makes sharpening faster and also reduces point pressure against the edge of the blade. Most of these rods are around ~600 grit or so in diamond, so they'll work pretty decently for heavier shaping of bevels or repairing edge damage. And for finer tuning up of the edge, there are many ceramic rod options out there, some of which are also fairly large in cross-sectional diameter. Can also use any dowel or broom handle, pvc pipe section, etc. with SiC sandpaper wrapped around it. Lots of grit options there too, with sandpaper.

Can also radius one edge of a bench stone (or pocket stone) to accommodate recurves. I used a coarse SiC stone to radius one edge of a Norton India pocket stone for this purpose. See below.
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