flat grind vs hollow grind

[Dr sharp]

can someone please tell me what this means..ive seen it time and time again on here. Are there pros and cons to both?

 

[stjames]

http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/xtra/glossary.html

http://www.bladeforums.com/features/faqbladegeo3.shtml

here ya go, instant expert

 

[TedV]

My biggest pro for flat-ground is that only 130 are made and they are signed by Chris Reeve

 

[Raindrop]

My biggest pro for flat-ground is that only 130 are made and they are signed by Chris Reeve

Ted,

That isn't 100% correct. There were probably closer to 140+ of them and I know for a fact that two of them came out of the shop without signatures on the blade. I have one in my collection and I know the other one ended up being "mayo'd".
Not likely to ever happen again, so I had to rethink my idea of using the unsigned flat ground as an EDC.

 

[TedV]

OK Fair enough, I'll change it a bit then

My biggest pro my for flat-ground is that only 130 to 140 are made and most of them (including mine) are signed by Chris Reeve

Ted

 

[deserthawk748]

I think that Raindrop is correct in saying that there were more than 130 flat grind blades made because the paper that came with mine states, "----------This knife is fitted with one of the first 130 blades that we have made.---------". I do believe that only the first 130 were signed and dated by Chris. Better yet, mine is a left-hand knife with signature and date on the right side of the blade. After checking with Anne, she confirmed that CRK had only sold a total of 5 flat grind blades in the left-hand version.

David