Dropped my SYKCO 511….. (The Point That Is)

Father & Son Traditional Sharpening

Father & Son Traditional Sharpening

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I've been playing around regrinding this knife by hand for a bit, first using pieces of sandstone and lately with my new Nubatama 24 grit XXC Aratae waterstone. I was warned by a member here that the 24 grit would leave very deep scratches, but I find it to be perfectly acceptable after use actually….. :)

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After proceeding to give it a full convex primary grind with zero edge, I decided that the factory clip point it came with didn't play well with this grind type so I dropped the point a bit. Nice and round now… :)

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The edge should be right around 17 degrees per side or less once I'm done, as best I can tell by looking anyways. Right now the edge has a bit a of a micro bevel at maybe 25 or 30 degrees per side.
 
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Regarding possible scratches...Maybe clean up the edge with a good ceramic rod when the edge is done?
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
Looks way better man. How do your modifications affect its overall usability and function?
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Thanks a bunch man, here's what it looked like shortly after pounding it through some logs and convexing just the edge. Convexing just behind the edge yielded some increased cutting ability over the factory edge, but it really became a cutting machine after regrinding the primary to where it is now.

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The cutting ability is remarkably high now despite the fact that the edge is actually quite blunt currently. It chops about on par with my factory Basic 8 when it came, but I am tweaking the edge geometry on this one now also so that will soon change for the better too.
 
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