A few years back, I purchased a Svord Mini Peasant and found it quite a useful size, carried for a year. Some time later, I decided to re-profile it, because the original blade shape had too much belly or breaking down cardboard and opening boxes. This is what I ended up with.
The knife didn't quite seem the same afterward. It was not quite as sharp as I remembered. This was not my first re-profile so I started to suspect factors other than myself, like maybe the heat treat got fouled, or perhaps the blade is differentially heat treated, and I had reached the soft part. My mind started to go down this rabbit hole, and I came close to tossing this blade in the trash. One more time to the diamond stone, this time with a shallower grind angle. By golly, the edge came back! I do my touch-up on a ceramic rod, and the previous grind was too steep to allow consistent contact.
Occam's razor indicates the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. I do all of this work by hand, so I had been the cause of my own grief. Modding knives sure is fun, and rewarding, though!
The knife didn't quite seem the same afterward. It was not quite as sharp as I remembered. This was not my first re-profile so I started to suspect factors other than myself, like maybe the heat treat got fouled, or perhaps the blade is differentially heat treated, and I had reached the soft part. My mind started to go down this rabbit hole, and I came close to tossing this blade in the trash. One more time to the diamond stone, this time with a shallower grind angle. By golly, the edge came back! I do my touch-up on a ceramic rod, and the previous grind was too steep to allow consistent contact.
Occam's razor indicates the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. I do all of this work by hand, so I had been the cause of my own grief. Modding knives sure is fun, and rewarding, though!
