Grind is WAY off

Karda said:
As long as you know what you are doing, you may be able to get away with this.
Unfortunately for many, putting these things together most often ends up in poor grinds, burnt blades and ruined heat treat.
Only the Crazy or the Foolish will sharpen a $400 knife on a belt sander.
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I have to admit, the first time I used the old 1x30 on a big expensive Busse, it was a bit nerve wracking.


Now, no biggie.

I spent some time on other knives before going that route with Busse, though!






I would not recommend anyone grab a grinder and try it out on a nice knife first.


Super fast way to kill a nice knife. Normally the tip is what gets jacked!







As to the OP, bummer about buying such a nice knife, and getting one some one else has jacked up and then lied about.

You need to let the forum moderators know what address he emailed you from, and what new ID he is using. If he is banned, and snuck back on here under another name, they need to know.
 
Learn how to sharpen a knife, and use that thing.

That slight difference in the edge will not be noticeable during use, and you can even it out over several sharpenings instead of just grinding off a bunch of material in one fell swoop.
 
If you are OCD like most of us here. Look up some videos on Wicked Edge. Easy to learn and outstanding results. Learn on a cheap knife until you are confident.
 
Im just guessing here, but the reason why CRK couldn't/didn't even your edge up, was probably because they would have had to remove too much steel from the blade at one time.
If they would have evened the edge out all in one sharpening like you had wanted, you would have been left with a sliver of a blade and a huge compromise in cutting performance and sharpening/blade life.
So they did their best by only evening it out so much to insure a good middle ground or compromise between those factors.
Now you'll get much more life out of that blade by doing it yourself over time.

Thats what I would tell myself if I was you. :D

The knife was most likely sold because of the botched sharpening job in the first place. And ya that sucks that this is your first CRK experience. I'm sure if you had bought it new from a dealer you would have been more then thrilled.
Anyways,
From what the edge looked like before it does look a lot better now.

Edit: Remember you can always purchase a new blade for it if you can't get use to it.
 
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I think you are being a bit picky. The picture looks perfectly acceptable to me.
Percent of lockup is something you should not arbitrarily obsess over. The lock either works or it does not. If it does not, send it in.
CRK just may not be the company for you.

Just my opinion, of course. No offense meant. :)
 
Thanks for all the comments.
I understand CRK did what they feel was best. They're pro. I'll get over it :)
The person who sold me the knife is banned. I don't know the reason. He did offer to reimburse me the amount i paid to CRK.
I'll have to purchase the WE soon. I heard a lot of good things about it. Sucks that they never have one in stock.
 
Nullity said:
I think you are being a bit picky. The picture looks perfectly acceptable to me.
Percent of lockup is something you should not arbitrarily obsess over. The lock either works or it does not. If it does not, send it in.
CRK just may not be the company for you.

Just my opinion, of course. No offense meant. :)
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I'm a noob so i don't know what's a good lock up look like but this is what mine look like.

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Ya man don't sweat the small stuff. :)

After some use and a few good sharpenings it will even right up. :thumbup:

Lock up looks to be a good 50-60%...perfect!
It will most likely never move deeper from there. CRK's are great like that.
 
I wouldn't call the second set of pictures perfect, but it is acceptable. My best advice would be for you to learn to sharpen your own knives, I used to relay on guided systems and gadgets for sharpening because I was always looking for the perfect even bevel, but after watching a video I came to realize that free hand sharpening is a really important skill to have, the guy said "if you are always relaying on some kind of system to get your knives sharp, you are not learning anything, just letting a thing do the work for you, what's gonna happen when you don't have them at hand and you need to put an edge on your knife?".That got me thinking and I that's when I started free hand sharpening. You need some time and practice(on old or cheap knives) but once you master the skill to your expectations, nobody can take that away from you and you'll be able to fix uneven bevels without having to be dependant on anybody to do it for you.
 
I understand picky, but that edge looks perfectly acceptable. Hard to tell though because the pics could better.

If it were mine I'd use it until it needed sharpening again then try to even it out a bit.

I agree that a belt grinder should be approached with caution and experience, but using one can provide excellent results. I like mine just as much as the Edge Pro. Two totally different machines that produce two different results, but they both have a place in my sharpening kit.
 
When buying NEW senenza I had to reject a few of them because they ground too deep near heel.

im assuming this is common for grinding bevels, I see it on MANY knives and first thing I check for.
 
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