Its the little things that can bug you

I actually like it better this way, but that's not the point. No pun intended :D

I too would be less than thrilled with it, but just because that isn't what you told them to do with it.
 
This is actually a secret survey of who has OCD

That being said, I also would be quite annoyed at the sharpener
And then know that in time, it will straighten it out as I sharpen it myself
 
fatcorgi said:
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.
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That's what I was thinking. Definitely wouldn't get anything else sharpened there!
 
I learned the hard way that knifemakers, knife shops and knife manufacturers always put the blade on a mechanized device to resharpeen. The result is usually too much steel taken off when compared to what I want and can do by hand.

There is on exception. On one of my knives, a master smith, with 30 years as a cutler, refurbished a warncliffe blade, and got it straight on, but he had to remove about 16th of an inch of the edge. That takes skill, and particularly skill with pocket knives, convex grinds, and warncliffes. His regrind was dead straight and convex as requested with a good tip. When resharpening, going up on the tip is easy to do on any blade and once done...irreversible.

In my experience, for a knife shop, your regrind is better than many.
 
Was that done on a contact wheel or a slack belt? A slack belt if the worse way, you can't keep it straight. I always do it on a wheel with a 400g belt to establish the edge on one that don't have an edge yet then clean it up on ceramic. Stays straight. That would bother me.
 
neeman said:
This is actually a secret survey of who has OCD
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neeman wins for best comment in the thread. My apologies Dave if you are not in a humorous mood considering what was done to your SBJ, but I think this is funny.
 
There's a slight S curve to the edge. It would definitely bug me.

It's a relatively easy fix on a coarse stone but that's still a pretty bad sharpening job. The only thing the sharpener did was make it take a lot longer for you to fix it.
 
Thanks for all the comments. I thought I was being too OCD! :D

Well, whats done is done. I will still use it. It still cuts like a champ and is a great design thanks to Mr Bose! I will most likely get another anyway. Its not a $1k+ custom but I do love the design and the bone.
 
No need to baby that one anymore...might as well use it like most folks use a rental car ;)
 
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