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Angelus1781

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At the bar tonight, the bartender hands me this funny looking spyderco. Looks like an endura...but with no pocket clip, and really big texturing in the handle. Look it over, says spyderco....and its Endura, G-2 steel.

I'll be damned. Its a full serrated endura but the serrations are very very dull. It would be a fight to see them, but trying to fix that on the sharpmaker but wondering what angle they should be on. Any ideas? Is G-2 hard steel to hone up?


You never know what your bartender might have.
 
I have a couple of the smaller Spydercos in G2 like the CoPilot and Pegasus (both SE) and I've never had any problem honing them on the sharpmaker.
Good luck,
Matt
 
I have an Endura in G2 from around 1990. The G2 held an edge for a very very long time while I worked the heck out of my plain edge version. A year or so after I got mine, my brother and I bought our dad an Endura in G2 with serrated edge, which is still brand new in the box!

Before I got carried away with my own stories here :) , what I actually meant to say was that Enduras from that period had intergral pocket clips of zytel and that the batrtender's clip probably broke off i guess.
 
It's just the older model, before 1998. By 1997 they were using AUS8. G2 is older yet, but the handle was the same. No surprise if the serrations had worn down some by now.

The grip pattern was not as pointy, and either was larger or appeared that way because of the flat volcano peaks.

The pocket clip was molded into the handle, no metal, and many of them ended up losing their tightness, or breaking, and people would grind the clip flat off.

You should be able to sharpen it just fine on the sharpmaker. Spyderco says to just sharpen both sides at the 40 degree angle like you would any knife, but if the edge is that worn you might want to use the 30 degree setting on the beveled side to bring back the profile.

If the serrations are really so far gone you can hardly see the wavy edge, maybe just stick with 40 degrees and sharpening both sides and let it become a straight edge eventually.
 
My first spyderco. $25 at a gun show.



Needless to say it wasn't my last. My sharpmaker brought the edge back nicely.
 
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