Does Bark River add a secondary bevel?

[SC_Dave]

Just got in a Bravo Necker II in satin. It was not as sharp as I thought it should be so I stropped a little, no change. I went to the sand paper and pad and noticed that I had to raise the spine a lot further off the paper than what should have been necessary for a blade of this thickness .130 and width (approx 1 in). I don't have any trouble sharpening a convex blade but I really felt like I was going to roll the edge raising the spine so high but I did it anyway and I did get it sharp enough to slice Campmor pages so I'm happy. In trying to understand this the only thing that makes sense to me is with a secondary bevel I had to raise the spine that much to get to the edge??????



Your thoughts?

David

 

[HeavyHanded]

My Bravo Necker 2 had an incomplete grind on one side of the blade, so a secondary bevel but I don't believe it was intentional or both sides would have been the same. Took a bit more work than I'd have imagined to correct it down to a single convex arc - probably about 25 degrees inclusive. Its one of my favorite EDC knives and one of the best all around cutters I have. After reading some of Mike Stewart's thoughts on convex edges, there is no way it left the shop with an intentional secondary bevel. Should you take the time to fix it, you won't be disappointed - pretty sure if you sent it to Bark River they'd fix it for you.

 

[db]

I'll bet the answer is yes and no. BRKT does almost all of there sharpening on a belt grinder. Depending on who did it and how fast they sharpened it they could have easily pressed too hard and or raised the spine as they sharpened it. both of these would produce a second or higher angle curve at the edge. Good news is it should be a fairly easy fix. get some coarse sandpaper and stiff backing and thin that sucker down.

 

[SC_Dave]

My Bravo Necker 2 had an incomplete grind on one side of the blade, so a secondary bevel but I don't believe it was intentional or both sides would have been the same. Took a bit more work than I'd have imagined to correct it down to a single convex arc - probably about 25 degrees inclusive. Its one of my favorite EDC knives and one of the best all around cutters I have. After reading some of Mike Stewart's thoughts on convex edges, there is no way it left the shop with an intentional secondary bevel. Should you take the time to fix it, you won't be disappointed - pretty sure if you sent it to Bark River they'd fix it for you.

I'll bet the answer is yes and no. BRKT does almost all of there sharpening on a belt grinder. Depending on who did it and how fast they sharpened it they could have easily pressed too hard and or raised the spine as they sharpened it. both of these would produce a second or higher angle curve at the edge. Good news is it should be a fairly easy fix. get some coarse sandpaper and stiff backing and thin that sucker down.

Both of these post make a lot of sense. After I messed with it more last night I discovered that; 1) It was an incomplete grind on one side. 2) It does need to be thinned some. This is why I had to raise the spine to such a high degree to get the edge I desired. I had to work on it a good bit to get it close to what I wanted, or IMO what it should have been when it left BRKT. I do have it very sharp now and I may let the thinning take place naturally with resharpening unless I get bored. Thanks guys!