Just got two back from sharpening & re-beveling...

dalefuller

dalefuller

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I just got these two Emersons back from Marcel at Wicked Sharp Blades a few days ago. Since we occasionally talk about the pros & cons of single vs. double beveled edges, I thought I'd take one of my Endeavors and have Marcel re-bevel it to a more traditional double beveled blade. Then I'll use the two of them side-by-side at work and around the house and see... well... whatever I see. Pix of the knives he did for me are below. The micro-Commander is still a single bevel, he just widened it a bit to relax the angle and to repair some botched sharpening attempts by me.

The Endeavor is a masterful job. Both side are perfectly even, mirror polished, and the apex of the cutting edge is centered right in middle of the blade all the way down the blade. The micro-Commander is also mirror polished, but only on the beveled side. It's still a standard single-beveled V-grind.

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Nice execution!

What can you say about Endeavor? Not much seen around. How comfortable on hand, -- is handle enough? Thanks!
 
It's disco'd now. I really like it. It's very comfortable in hand and easy to maintain. I like the straight edge and drop point. It's more heavily slanted toward the "everyday" role than the "self-defense" role. Very stout folder in a smaller package.
 
get them down to a zero grind, they get crazy.

Under their own weight, these will slice all the way down through a sheet of phonebook paper. Just have to hold them so that they don't do it too fast and fall on your foot.

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Those are great looking regrinds. Hopefully, I'll get to do some test cutting with mine this week. Last week was a disaster at work with people out sick and IT issues.
 
I really like this kind of regrinds. But what do you think about heat treat? Will it be affected/degrade?
 
As long as the blade is kept cool in the process, the heat treat will be ok. Big Chris is a very good knifemaker, so I have no doubt he knows how to handle my blades during the regrind.
 
I've had a chance to do some cutting at work today. Here's what I started with. Both Endeavors have been resharpened and had the bevel angles changed. My single-beveled knife was redone with my Work Sharp. The bevel was set at 30 degrees according to the Work Sharp setting. Then the edge was refined with a balsa strop and 1 micron diamond paste before finishing up on a bare leather strop. It's mirror polished and easily shaves air and filets a phone book page all the way along the edge. The double-beveled endeavor was done by Marcel at Wicked Sharp Blades. He set the bevels at 20 degrees per side so I can touch it up on my SM if I want to. His edge was also mirror polished and would easily shave and filet phone book pages. That's m usual standard for sharpening my work knives.

At work, I cut industrial pallet strapping material, some fairly wide cardboard, and some printer paper. The strapping material and the printer paper didn't feel any different to me from one knife to the other. I didn't seem to have to use any more pressure with one knife than the other. The strapping material was easily cut with both knives and the 20# printer paper just rolled up in nice strips with very even edges. The cardboard cut pretty easily with both knives, but I did notice one difference. The piece of cardboard I cut was about 8" wide. I started at one side and cut down all the way through it. The double-beveled Endeavor cut straight down as you would expect. The single-beveled Endeavor cut as easily as the first knife, but it did run to the right just a bit in that 8" long cut. I halfway expected it to run to one side or the other from what other people have said about cutting with a chisel grind.

At home, I trimmed some shrubs and had an easier time of it cutting through the living stems with the single-beveled Endeavor. Cutting right-handed, that put the bevel down on the plant stem and the edge biting into the stem. The double-beveled Endeavor seemed to slide off the wet stem more easily.

Both knives cleaned up and touched up on the balsa and leather strops very easily.

As unscientific and quick as this was, for now, think I prefer the single-bevels that Emerson uses on the V-ground knives. The cutting I did this morning at the warehouse is 90% of all the cutting I do, whether it's at home or at work. I don't do food prep with my folders and I rarely open envelopes with them. I'll keep using these two side-by-side when I have a chance, but my preference at the moment is for the standard V-ground, singe beveled blades.
 
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