Its the little things that can bug you

akadave2

akadave2

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I normally do my own reprofiling if a blade needs it. Unless its a severe change, which isnt the norm. So I dropped my SBJ in my pocket last week and happened to be in my favorite knife shop. The guys there are great and they do a heck of a job sharpening, polishing etc. I had not done anything to my SBJ and was carrying it for the first time. The main blade (Wharncliffe) had a grind that kind of petered out at the tip. I intended on addressing it that night but I figured hey, Im in the shop, the guys are great grinders and maybe they could clean up the grind and I would take it from there that night. Well, after they were done, the blade looked like this. Its not totally flat which they sometimes arent but it now has that little tip-up at the end. Cant decide if it bothers me or not.

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i kinda like it. reminds me of a kershaw leek. almost a wharncliffe but not quite.
also it will probably work its self out as you use and sharpen it anyway :P so i wouldnt worry too much about it :P

Scott
 
I don't think you ever want to take the swedge to the tip, If I'm not mistaken it
can mess up the blade after you sharpen it down a bit! Something like that anyway..lol

Jason
 
The mini recurve near the plunge line and the upswept edge toward the tip are both mistakes I would be ashamed of myself.
 
akadave2 said:
Cant decide if it bothers me or not.
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I know whether it bothers me or not, and I would have a very bad sad right about now if that were mine.

I'm still a very new sharpener, but have found few things easier than sharpening/maintaining a straight edge on a straight edge. As t'were.


... I hope it's at least sharp?

~ P.
 
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Not always so easy with grinders. Skill required.

Kevin

pertinux said:
I know whether it bothers me or not, and I would have a very bad sad right about now if that were mine.

I'm still a very new sharpener, but have found few things easier than sharpening/maintaining a straight edge on a straight edge. As t'were.


... I hope it's at least sharp?

~ P.
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pertinux said:
I know whether it bothers me or not, and I would have a very bad sad right about now if that were mine.

I'm still a very new sharpener, but have found few things easier than sharpening/maintaining a straight edge on a straight edge. As t'were.


... I hope it's at least sharp?

~ P.
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I did work over the edge when I got it home so it shaves. I keep all my knives shaving sharp. I just hate it when a great specimen of a particular knife is boogered up. Love the bone on this knife. Considering getting another but I hand picked this one.
 
I would resharpen that edge myself and make it straight again. Doesn't look too difficult to do...
 
Positives: it's unique, the rest of the knife is still a beauty, it should slice nicely if you keep it sharp, you don't have to worry about it being perfect :)
 
Looks sort of strange but over time you will likely put your own edge and grind on behind the initial bevel. My SBJ was way too obtuse from the factory so I used my Edge Pro to put on a 30 degree, inclusive, reprofile with a 40 degree back-bevel. Puts this knife in a whole new world when it comes to cutting ability and still manages to hold an edge well.
 
Beautiful knife,but yeah,they definitely blew it on the grinding.
Another case (pun intended :)) for hand sharpening/profiling.
You say you could have done the job yourself so no doubt you'll get that little problem straightened out.;):thumbup:
 
Does sort of remind me of some Ken Onion Kershaw designs with that recurve. Bet it still cuts stuff.
 
I wouldn't judge it until I used it. Remington used to recurve their blades intentionally, because they will slice more aggressively.
That said, if you stick to a flat hone, you will wind up straight again eventually.
I had a guy put a wow like that on my leather shears, and I had to restrain myself when he asked for payment which he did NOT get, but they needed to be straight.
 
waynorth said:
I wouldn't judge it until I used it. Remington used to recurve their blades intentionally, because they will slice more aggressively.
That said, if you stick to a flat hone, you will wind up straight again eventually.
I had a guy put a wow like that on my leather shears, and I had to restrain myself when he asked for payment which he did NOT get, but they needed to be straight.
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It cuts well and is still use-able. Now if he would have done that to one of your Barlows...well that would have been another conversation!:D
 
I'd be unhappy with that, even if you straighten out the 'recurve' eventually, they have taken so much steel off it, that they have shortened the life of the knife by many years. I had a similar experience taking a knife to a knife shop, before I knew about sharpening - it was a SAK - instead of resharpening the edge they ground the entire blade into a convex grind, making it a lot smaller and changing the whole character of the blade
 
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