Dear knife makers

xzonin13

xzonin13

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Dear knife makers,

Whether you're a custom maker or a production company, why is it so hard to make a sharpening choil that clears the plunge grind? A choil that doesn't clear the plunge is a waste of machining with no benefits for the user. There are some companies that have no problem with this, and they're a joy for us sharpeners. But the majority of knives have poorly designed sharpening choils. Why? Is it hard to just adjust the g-code to move the plunge? Particularly when a company has some models with great choils, and some models with lousy ones (I'm looking at you Benchmade and Zero Tolerance), why the difference in implementation? I honestly do not understand.
 
This will always be one of my biggest pet peeves as well. On the opposite end, I also hate when the edge isn't sharpened all the way back to the plunge, so there's just this flat area of unsharpened edge unable to be used. In such case, I would rather there be a sharpening choil there instead of a dull thick portion of edge.
 
xzonin13 said:
Or the very slight random recurve at the choil
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Like it's so hard to extend the choil over one more millimeter smh. It really is a confusing thing to understand why they do this to us. There have been so many knives in the past that kept me from buying them literally for these single reasons. It's a crying shame.
 
I'll sign this petition :thumbsup:.

I'd rather there be no choil so I can create one myself (been there done that), instead of having the choil in the wrong place and not be able to grind a new one because the placement of the bad one would require me to create a HUGE choil.

I LOVE my Cold Steel Ti-Lite 6's (all three of them) but they suffer from misplaced choils.
 
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