chisel grind questions

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I read in Emerson's website their explanation for chisel grinds and having them on the left side of the blade. But I still have a couple questions. I recently acquired a CQC 7 because I wanted to experiment with this knife.

My first question is is a chisel grind more likely to roll, because it is basically unsupported on the backside.

Second, the preparation aside when it be easier to carve wood chips. Basically any kind chisel work, if if it were ground on the right side. There may be no tactical advantage in a knife fight or and penetration or slashing in general. But there do seem to be a number of more refined in mundane tasks that would be better suited toward a right-handed grind.

I guess the third question on the grind would be is a chisel ground point as effective for penetrating hardened matter. As in traditional Apple see grind of Tanto blades

last and somewhat unrelated. I took my knife apart to clean it when I got it and was surprised to find that the liner's are actually separate from me. Internal steel liners, which isn't the case in the knives used to dealing with. Is there a reason they do it this way on the clip side of my knife you can actually see a little bit of light. Between me steel spacer and G 10

Also, Emerson uses titanium liner lock's rather than me steel liner lock same used in from spyderco does the titanium liner lock where on a lot faster. I believe it is more grippy, but is there a downside to that.
 
i have had CGs ground on the left side (ie EKI CQC7) and on the right side (ie BM CG stryker) and imho there is little to no advantage of one over the other, i suppose the RH CG might be a little better for fine cutting if ya were right handed vs the LH grind, i was suprised i expected a dramatic difference but it wasnt a big deal.

i have a spyderco ti lum with the appleseed grind and imho the EKI CQC7 would penetrate every bit as much, the lum is a great knife by the way, the blade is longer than the '7 and imho it would probably be a better edc knife since it doesnt have the CG blade, i used tio carry mine a lot FWIW.

i have never had a liner wear issue with a EKI. nor a BM for that matter, IIRC theoretically the ti liner can possibly gall on the steel blade thus increasing wear to a small degree, but almost all my liner lock knives have ti liners and this hasnt ever been an issue for me.

hope this helps ya...........
 
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