Multi grinds

[Hooper405]

I see increasing numbers of folders with 2 or more different grinds on the same blade. What's up?

 

[K.O.D.]

I see increasing numbers of folders with 2 or more different grinds on the same blade. What's up?

Personally, I don't like it. This is one of the reasons I haven't owned a tanto in over ten years, until recently. The Heretic Medusa is a tanto, but the same grind throughout.

I find them multiple grinds to make sharpening annoying, but I think its just an aesthetic thing. I remember when Strider was doing their nightmare grind, which I imagine was a nightmare to sharpen.

 

[Kettleman]

Its because they are SEXY!!!!
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[NG VI]

Its because they are SEXY!!!!
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oh heccin' fudge yeah they are!

 

[Grasshopperglock]

Like the Hogue folder and Mora Utility 2000?

Partial serrations have tended to fall off the map. So someone, somewhere needed to come up with something to sell more knives.

Fat bevel/Skinny bevel on the same blade to the rescue.

 

[badmatt]

Shiro kami flipper is a dream knife solely because of the grind…

Style doesn’t always have to be in the handle or funky blade shapes..

 

[ShaiHulud]

I see increasing numbers of folders with 2 or more different grinds on the same blade. What's up?

Use it enough it all wears down pretty evenly
Take a tanto, use it use it use it the the blade will start looking more and more drop pointy

 

[gooeytek]

I am all over compound grinds.

 

[Kettleman]

Use it enough it all wears down pretty evenly
Take a tanto, use it use it use it the the blade will start looking more and more drop pointy

Unless of course you sharpen it correctly.

 

[The True North]

Looks cool on people’s Instagram pics. That’s the driving force.

 

[NG VI]

Unless of course you sharpen it correctly.

Why would anyone properly care for their valued gear when they can just mangle it and then slander the maker and designer for making them do that

 

[Kettleman]

Why would anyone properly care for their valued gear when they can just mangle it and then slander the maker and designer for making them do that

You are right of course. I know not what I was thinking!

 

[K.O.D.]

Sharpening this looks like a chore. Thanks but no thanks. Talk about a waste of blade length.

 

[Kettleman]

Sharpening this looks like a chore. Thanks but no thanks. Talk about a waste of blade length.

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My guess is it will never need sharpened as it’s an art piece not a tool.

 

[Blues]

Josh at REK Knives sure produces some beautiful grinds. And his blades are known to cut.

I don't own any.

(Yet.)

 

[ShaiHulud]

Unless of course you sharpen it correctly.

The tanto yes

 

[gooeytek]

 

[K.O.D.]

The only knives with compound grinds I ever liked were those by Brad Zinker, and even then, I couldn't bring myself to buy one.

 

[Glenn Goodlett]

I have a few. This Zinker is probably my fav.

 

[Tsujigiri]

I think it was for a long time something that was difficult to do and required hand grinding, so it became a design feature associated with the kind of custom folders people dreamed about.

More recently, high end Chinese manufacturers seem to have caught on to this and realized they could use their CNC modeling and machining expertise to make accessible versions that would allow collectors to realize their unfulfilled knife fantasies.

Some of these allow you to combine a thin slicey knife with a tough overbuilt knife, so you can perform a wide variety of tasks with different parts of the same knife. But it's probably not something that's going to make or break you.