Dan Gray said:
if you have two of these now ,,,so why this thread in the first place?
As note in the above :
1) to possibly improve the cutting ability and ease of sharpening of the U2
2) to check to see if this profile can even be ran in that stainless
Plus as a side issue find a new maker to work with, as I knew anyone who was willing to even discuss that profile would have the viewpoint I would want to work with.
Yes it might not work, I would be concerned about overheating personally, if it doesn't then it doesn't. As noted the information is worth the knife to me.
..when you say .005
(1/8th the thickness of a piece of writing paper.) then say grind it as thin as he can get it, isn't that deviating from what you asked for?
No, as noted they were benchmarks, again that is what the ~ means, had I wanted it to within a specific tolerance I would have stated it. I am usually not that shy about saying what I want.
When I request a custom knife I am really specific with detailed spec's, I always give geometries to that detail, but I let the makers float them based on their experience, asking them to discuss them with me if something changes significantly.
Usually I discuss them in detail at the time of ordering, where they come from, are they workable and so on. Some times they change as they work with the steel as often I ask for materials they have not worked with before.
these tests are based on a blade of what you got
not what you wanted..
It is always the case that the work done with a knife represents the ability of that knife not some ideal.
anyone can produce a one time blade but to reproduce it
I am getting a custom blade done to my preferences, I don't really care about the ease of making it a production item. I get custom knives because I can do things which you can't do readily in production knives.
who would buy them anyway if they have to learn how to use it, with-out braking it
You have to do this with any knife, some are just more overbuilt than others. My personal ones are not overbuilt at all, I run them all just at the geometries which allow them to do what I intended them to do. They get damaged all the time when I loan them to friends.
I carry more than one knife usually so this means they tend to get heavily optomized. Even my "grubbing" knives are far more acutely ground than most customs and production blades with the exception of the above makers I mentioned.
I am currently carrying a CRK&T Point Guard for a rough user, the primary hollow grind has been modified with a flat overlay right to the edge producing a primary edge profile of 5.6 degrees per side, on top of this I overlay a secondary bevel at 15 degrees per side.
This secondary bevel is actually far less than 0.005" thick as you can't even see it, if you mic the blade at 0.005" it moves more than a mm back from the actual edge which is then thus only a fraction of that in thickness obviously.
And again, that is the *rough* knife I carry, I use it for working around bone in the kitchen, digging, opening cans and the like, the ones I use just to cut soft things like cardboard and ropes with are ground *way* thinner and more acute.
then I have to ask if this is just for you?
Obviously, I do get customs made as gifts from time to time, but most of them are for me, not prototypes for the general public.
if so,, why bother with this whole thread
Because I thought it was likely to turn up a maker and it did, I assumed this would be the place to request custom work done, it makes sense given the title of the forum. Yes I knew it would turn up a host of off topic commentary, I don't care about inconsequential side remarks.
As an aside I learned a lot anyway about various things, not the least of which is an interesting commentary on the difficulty of this process which is exactly opposite to what Alvin noted which he describes as actually very easy.
That hard part from his persective was actually getting the stone to run with little vibration, but it has to be considered of course that he actually made his grinder from parts, I assume high end commercial grinders this would not be an issue.
With the vibration issue solved he decribed the grinding as easy. It seemed to be that establishing the groove was the hard part from my point of view, but he has a really high tech solution to that.
-Cliff
then I have to ask if this is just for you? if so,, why bother with this whole thread knowing everyone here thinks it's a big joke anyway thinking 
I give, uncle 
