Critique my design! And get brutal with it! ( You cannot dissuade me from making this knife!)

To be completely honest, there is no way of would change a thing on that design without holding it....it looks proportioned well....great lines...beautiful knife. You could add the tumb ramp and always grind it off if you don't like it....tough to add later

Same with the handle....if you don't like downward portion of the grip, you can always grind it off. I've put several on paper that I thought looked right and weren't.....just kept grinding until they were.....only one way to find out.
 
Crag the Brewer said:
For the love of God....... No sharpening choil.
Why do makers use them????
Seems so Wrong
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I'm not sure if you're serious or just trolling me, because it's the internet, so I'll just assume you'd like an actual reason:

Sharpening up into a plunge line is an absolute bitch. It's easy enough when you use a belt grinder to sharpen, but then the end user is stuck with the whetstones trying to get up in there, and it just gets worse and worse the more it's sharpened over time, as the edge starts moving back and that corner gets harder and harder to reach.

What do you think is so wrong about them that it gets you all riled up like that?
 
Michael Black said:
I'm not sure if you're serious or just trolling me, because it's the internet, so I'll just assume you'd like an actual reason:

Sharpening up into a plunge line is an absolute bitch. It's easy enough when you use a belt grinder to sharpen, but then the end user is stuck with the whetstones trying to get up in there, and it just gets worse and worse the more it's sharpened over time, as the edge starts moving back and that corner gets harder and harder to reach.

What do you think is so wrong about them that it gets you all riled up like that?
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I Was being dramatic. I apologize if I came across weird.

But I still don't feel the need for a sharpening choil.
Finger choils are ok on Some knives, but I generally prefer them without.


I do both belt grinder and stones.
I'm guessing that I push the edge forward while on the stone, instead of a slicing action. I haven't noticed it difficult.

I'm suspecting its and astethic thing? the choil maybe keeps the edges of the stone contacting the end of the knife? idk?
My knives are users, and I don't mind little, tiny scratches from use. If that's the reason.


Thanks for your views though, I'll think about this some more, and I Do appreciate them. :)
 
Have you made any mock-ups in wood? That always answers a lot of questions that a design on paper can't.
 
I carried an ESEE-4 today because it is one of the few not-cheap knives I own that has an ice-breaker on the butt.

I like the bird's beak because farm work can get slippery.

A small thumb ramp would be excellent, especially if you keep most of the spine straight to use for scraping things.

I like the completely straight edge. I would not begrudge a small, tasteful belly, I just don't have much use for that. I use kitchen knives in the kitchen.

Can I have one in LC200N?
 
I just happened onto the White River Lifespike, which is sort of like what I had in mind, except that I want a knife, not a breaching tool. Still, if the Lifespike came in LC200N, I would be tempted.

What I like about the Lifespike:
* a straight edge for cutting
* a straight spine for scraping
* the edge and handle geometry provide what's in effect a guard, while the handle does not interfere with cutting on a flat surface
* likewise, but to a lesser extent, for the thumb notch
* short pry bar on the butt, but as I said, an ice breaker would suffice.

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