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Today I set out to fix the horribly uneven bevel on my 555(HG) mini-grip (I bought it used and aware of the condition) but instead of just fixing the bevel by sharpening the crap out of it (and reducing its life greatly cause again it was really bad) I decided to go a little farther and somewhat regrind the blade. Its now the sharpest knife I own, I actually shaved my face with it after I was done, all of my knives will easily shave arm/leg hair but this is currently the only one that is refined enough to not tear up my face and I dont believe I would have ever gotten it to that point without the regrind.
The initial regrind was done on a 220 grit diamond stone by hand, it was then sharpened normally (using a fine/extra-fine DMT followed by a fine spyderco ceramic stone then stropped with green compound on leather).
The forward 1/2 of the blade has had the hollow grind removed and the entire primary bevel reset to around 15 DPS, its not perfect but its a heck of a lot better than it was and the primary bevel is much much better than its ever been. I think the little bit of hollow grind left on the back of the blade looks awesome but I'm excited to hear other opinions, (it would have taken literally hours, if not days more work to do it all the way back, and removed tons of material in the process)
If your wondering whats going on with the scale where its showing some yellow under the red- the red color is dyed, they were originally yellow scales and a little of the dye got wore off during the process today. They'll soon be replaced with custom scales...
The initial regrind was done on a 220 grit diamond stone by hand, it was then sharpened normally (using a fine/extra-fine DMT followed by a fine spyderco ceramic stone then stropped with green compound on leather).
The forward 1/2 of the blade has had the hollow grind removed and the entire primary bevel reset to around 15 DPS, its not perfect but its a heck of a lot better than it was and the primary bevel is much much better than its ever been. I think the little bit of hollow grind left on the back of the blade looks awesome but I'm excited to hear other opinions, (it would have taken literally hours, if not days more work to do it all the way back, and removed tons of material in the process)
If your wondering whats going on with the scale where its showing some yellow under the red- the red color is dyed, they were originally yellow scales and a little of the dye got wore off during the process today. They'll soon be replaced with custom scales...
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