Convex from the factory?

[19-3ben]

The edge bevels on CRK's are indeed convex, and are done that way on purpose. I would personally prefer CRK's edge bevels to be a flat V-grind to better complement their knives' excellent primary hollow grind, but convex is how they prefer it.

Jim

Oh, I dunno about that. I used my WorksharpKO to regrind a Buck 110, and the combo of convened edge, and hollow grind makes for a MEAN slicer with great edge stability. I have a few knives with the hollow grind/convex edge combo and I really like it. I will say that for an all around hard work knife, a scandi grind with convex edge is the best all-around combo in my experience. It just makes it very strong, very stable, and great edge. But for pure slicing capacity, I've found there's nothing like the convex/hollow.

 

[19-3ben]

Thanks, fellas, I didn't think there were any!

While we're at it, does one of the sharpening systems make it easier than the others to turn a factory edge into a convex edge? I can practice on my CRKT Razel (which is halfway there, anyway), but it would be nice to know it's going to end up symmetrical.....

Yes. As others have mentioned, the Ken Onion Worksharp is absolutely awesome at it. There's the old sandpaper on a mouse pad trick, but quite frankly, I can go from factory edge, or bust/well used V grind, up to a mirror polished convex that will shave hair and slice paper into confetti in about 10 minutes start to finish.

 

[Eric@DLT]

The nice thing with Bark River is you can have their knives reground to change them to full height grinds. You can request this when buying new or send them in to have it done.

Cross knives are also convex.

The KME sharpening system has a new rod for sharpening convex grinds. At BLADE they showed us the updated version that had more of a curve to it than the previous version.