Chisel-ground Spyder

Lycosa

Lycosa

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Hi Sal,
It's time for Spyderco to come out with a traditional Japanese chisel-ground folder. Don't let me wait too long! Thanks, Sal.
Lycosa
 
Unless you are willing to buy an entire production run, you may have a long wait. Chisel grind was the hands down winner of a "least liked grind" poll on the Spyderco forum not long ago.
 
Yab,
Thanks for info. I had no idea. Maybe a limited production run might test the water. When done right the chisel- grind is a super blade. I still think most folks don't understand that grind yet. Over and out.
Lycosa
 
hmmm, I suppose it works good for a chisel, but a knife? I've had a couple too.
 
Chisel grind...:barf:

Perhaps it is just me, but I can't get a chisel grind to track properly at all.
 
I had the original benchmade specwar, and a emerson specwar mod "b". Got rid of them both as I found I liked knives like the Endura with it's choice pf plain or serrated edge, Air Sog, Buck, then framelocks with regular blades. I've really found that I liked flat grinds, thin edges sharpened at about 10 to 15 degrees per side.

I don't like cutting with chisel grinds for slicing, skinning fruit, and the other daily uses I use a knife for. Sharpening is different also, and I never could get chisel grinds sharpened as well as I can regular edges. Joe
 
I'm all for it! A Spyderco I would not in any way be tempted to go out and buy!! What a concept! Hey, different strokes and all but I owned some Emersons along the way and the chisel grind doesn't do anything a good v-grind won't do (at least anything I do with my knives) and it doesn't do most of them as well.
 
I get it. For all around utility go with the-V- grind. Thanks Dawgs!
Lycosa
 
I think a big part of the problem with all the chisel grinds I have owned was they were all ground for left-handed people, much like Spyderco serrations ;)
 
Why what?

Why do I say they are ground for left-handed people? When a right-handed person decides to slice a piece of cheese (or anything else), he holds the knife in his right hand, hold the object to be cut with his left hand, and slices downward. All of the chisel grinds and serrated blades I have except the serrated blade on my LM Wave are flat on the right side of the blade and beveled on the left, so the flat side is against the portion being cut off and the bevel is pushing against the bulk of the material. If it was ground from the other side (or if I was left-handed) the flat side of the blade would be against the bulk of the material and the bevel would be pushing the slice of material away from the blade. That would allow the blade to track straight with much less effort as long as the slice being taken off isn't too thick.
 
imho RH/LH CG's dont matter a lot but the CG's i carry are more SD vs utility knives ie i dont cut cheese with 'em..

the BM stryker had a CG version and its ground RH FWIW.
 
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