Is it doable to regrind a manix 2 to a scandi grind?

[sogflash]

Is it doable to regrind a manix 2 to a scandi grind? Have anybody here tried it?

 

[HoosierQ]

Sure would have to remove A LOT of metal and I think if you preserved the bevel angle, you would have a very acute edge that would not stand up to much. Scandi bevels (based on how they index on a Sharpmaker) are either a little more or less than 30 degrees inclusive which is about as acute as you generally want a general purpose knife. The Manix 2 is sort of a hard use knife and I'd be worried about the fragility of such an edge.

 

[Nullity]

It's hard to add steel back to a blade...

but seriously, to change the primary grind from a hollow to a flat would require either a lot of removal at the edge, or raising the shoulder transition much higher up the blade. I think it would turn into a high flat-ground zero-grind instead of a scandi-grind.

I'd like to see someone try though, for sure.

 

[DJG097]

I turned my H1 salt into a scandi. Kind of. Its not a true scandi grind because its hollow ground blade but it does cut like a laser now.