CQC7 Krein regrind

[bradpierson26]

im about to buy a NIB Emerson CQC7 off of the bay and everyone, including my best friend, tells me that the chisel grind on the CQC7 is terrible and i should send it to tom krein for a regrind....
1) is the chisel grind that bad?
2) what kind of grind can/will/should krein put on it?
3) what does he charge?

thanks!

 

[Crocodilo]

No first hand knowledge of Krein's work, but keep hearing great things about it.

As for the CQC7 grind... yes, it excels at armour-piercing, but sucks at normal EDC cutting jobs.

My Benchmade/Emerson CQC7's blade was a coated combo edge tanto until I went nuts with sandpaper and a coarse sharpenning stone and turned it into this: a shiny plain edge, with a nice belly and an overall convex grind.

 

[spiralarchitect]

Tom does superb work. Just tell him that you want to use it for an edc and you want to be able to sharpen it easily. I think he does the best by his customers when you just let him go. I think the regrind costs either $40 or $45 confused and that includes return shipping.

 

[SIFU1A]

im about to buy a NIB Emerson CQC7 off of the bay and everyone, including my best friend, tells me that the chisel grind on the CQC7 is terrible and i should send it to tom krein for a regrind....
1) is the chisel grind that bad?
2) what kind of grind can/will/should krein put on it?
3) what does he charge?

thanks!

1)nothing wrong with a CG imho,

2)krien changes the angle some & makes it more like a zero bevel grind vs a std CG but it will still be a CG.

3) IIRC ~ $40, or so with shipping.

krien does great work, and if ya want a rebevel he is the man to see, but the std CG is ok too, and if ya know how to sharpen them they will get plenty sharp and work fine for most all uses including utility, i edc'd a tanto SOCFK for over a yr and never once wished it was a std "V" grind FWIW, but if the knife is strictly for utility, and ya plan on opening a lotta boxes or something similar, ya would probably be better served with a conventional "v" grind vs a CG, but for what it was designed for, which in the '7s case is self defense, the CG works just fine too, and for lite utility with no "fine" cutting it will also be ok.

that said i have thought about sending my '12 to tom, and eventually will he does great work.

 

[Lycosa]

You are getting first rate advice, Boyee!

 

[bradpierson26]

thanks guys! will his regrind mess up the black coating on the blade?

 

[bradpierson26]

does anybody have a pic of a knife with black blade with his regrind, i dont want it to mess up the coating

 

[sodak]

Here you go. You need to decide if you want a strong combat type knife or a cutter.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q203/sodak_photos/p1010017-1.jpg

 

[tabeeb762]

No first hand knowledge of Krein's work, but keep hearing great things about it.

As for the CQC7 grind... yes, it excels at armour-piercing, but sucks at normal EDC cutting jobs.

My Benchmade/Emerson CQC7's blade was a coated combo edge tanto until I went nuts with sandpaper and a coarse sharpenning stone and turned it into this: a shiny plain edge, with a nice belly and an overall convex grind.

That came out real nice. Good job:thumbup:

 

[Bimmer1]

You will lose some of your black coating during the re-grind. Here are some pics taken by Krein himself.

 

[steelscout30]

Tom Krein does great work---I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him.

Just make sure that CQC7 on eBay isn't a counterfeit---they have a habit to send you a Chinese copy every now and again.

 

[SoCalJok3r]

No first hand knowledge of Krein's work, but keep hearing great things about it.

As for the CQC7 grind... yes, it excels at armour-piercing, but sucks at normal EDC cutting jobs.

My Benchmade/Emerson CQC7's blade was a coated combo edge tanto until I went nuts with sandpaper and a coarse sharpenning stone and turned it into this: a shiny plain edge, with a nice belly and an overall convex grind.

that looks sick.. im gonna try something like thast on the one im gettin now. . Thanks for pic nad idea..

 

[SIFU1A]

thanks guys! will his regrind mess up the black coating on the blade?

yep it will, to a degree,

 

[Haze]

Tom K. reground this mini-7 for me, I'm not a fan of two tone blades so I went with a bead blast finish :thumbup:

 

[Lycosa]

Well---did ya do it??

 

[SIFU1A]

if i had tom rebevel mine i would BB it also just to make it look uniform,

 

[Lycosa]

My HD-7 still has the Emerson logo on it. And, I stripped the back of the blade to the bare 154-CM, and gave it a satin finish. To me, all this works. Think about what you want Your blade to look like. The bottom line is---it's my sharpest folder!