Delica 4... FFG or Saber?

C11P, stainless delica. Maybe the best knife ever made. Super solid and with such a thin blade, the difference between HSG and FFG is minimal.


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I've had both. I still have the FFG. I found it to be much more suited to my needs. I use my Delica for opening packages, breaking down boxes, cutting zip ties and cutting fruit and snacks, scoring lumber prior to cutting, cutting fuel lines and other hoeses--pretty much everything except prying of any kind and I don't baton or chop with it. For me the FFG blade was a real game changer and upped the performance of the knife by a big margin, but YMMV as they say.
 
luke86 said:
Those are my feelings as well but seems these days a lot of people seem to want to pry with them. Hence all the concern about tip strength.
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Prying has been around since the first knife. I find it necessary to make some cuts, whether it's separating bone joints while processing a kill, cutting zip ties, carving wood, etc. Any lateral stress on the edge/blade during a cut is prying IMO.... seems just recently people only equate prying to inserting the blade between materials, and pulling sideways. Maybe too much boobtube.
 
Thin for cutting, thick for prying. Take your pick.

My first FFG Delica cut so much better than my saber ground D4 that I was an instant convert. It also inspired me to manually reprofile my saber ZDP D4 to full convex, zero edge with mirror finish. This took many hours on bench stones, but it made that blade a great performer, able to easily shave endgrain off a birch dowel.
 
iMarcoU said:
C11P, stainless delica. Maybe the best knife ever made. Super solid and with such a thin blade, the difference between HSG and FFG is minimal.
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This. If you can live with stainless handles, the hollow grind is brilliant. If it has to be an FRN model, I'd take full flat grind over sabre if you are mostly slicing. For more robust cutting, I'd take the sabre grind and then I may as well add a full set of teeth.
 
psquared said:
This. If you can live with stainless handles, the hollow grind is brilliant. If it has to be an FRN model, I'd take full flat grind over sabre if you are mostly slicing. For more robust cutting, I'd take the sabre grind and then I may as well add a full set of teeth.
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Agree, 100%.
 
ejames13 said:
I would say it should be everyone's last knife. If you start with the Delica you might not ever get to trying out anything else!
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It's statements like this that make me excited to purchase the delica lol.

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ejames13 said:
I would say it should be everyone's last knife. If you start with the Delica you might not ever get to trying out anything else!
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Okay maybe a Delica and an SAK Farmer. That means all of your folding needs are covered forever. :)
 
ejames13 said:
I would say it should be everyone's last knife. If you start with the Delica you might not ever get to trying out anything else!
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Agree 100%. I have had many much "nicer" knives but now carry a delica almost exclusively. So it should be your first knife I you want to save some money but your last if you don't.
 
I have a couple of older saber grounds (VG-10 And ZDP-189) and a couple flat grounds in VG-10 and Superblue. I lean towards the flat grounds based on what I usually cut (cardboard, opening packages, occasional food). Get one of each. You can't have just one Delica, it's an unwritten, universal law.
 
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