Quick hack job reprofile

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Muaddib1116

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So I'd been meaning to do this for a while, but just kept putting it off. Had some time this morning, so I did a quick and rough reprofile of one of my Bee L01's. I like the knife, good handle, great f&f for the price (hehe, far better than my Emersons), great blade to handle ratio. I'm just not really a fan of tanto blades. This is the knife that made me fall in love with thumbdisks, thus my venture into the fine world of Emerson Knives.

I used a bench grinder to rough it out. As you can see I did a pretty rough job at the tip, but there was plenty of thickness there so I was able to clean it up a little with a hand file. Then half an our watching killer elite while stroking sharpmaker diamond rods, then the regular progression through to extra fine. As you can see it's not pretty, and still pretty rough at the micro-bevel, but it will refine itself with each future sharpening.

Forgive my terrible photos, I really am a terrible photographer.

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Looks good! I am not a big fan of tango blades either, you did a nice job on the reprofile
 
Strangely enough, Murray Carter apparently doesn't like tanto blades either. He shows how to remove the secondary point and round it out in his Advanced Sharpening video. He just uses a 1000 grit waterstone, but seems to get the job done.

Yours looks pretty good. I'd regrind the last 1/4 or so of the tip to get it really pointy again. From the pictures it looks rounded off and not too sharp.

Brian.
 
Great job, the second photo (image on top) reminded me of my Benchmade 710 (without the thumbdisk) which also has great blade to handle ratio and nice weight and balance.
 
Thanks for the comments guys! I wasn't as careful as I could have been and I wasn't using ideal tools, but I'm fairly pleased with how it came out. The photo isn't great; the tip is a little less pointy than it was stock, but it's very sharp. The reason the bevel widens out so much at the tip is because of how thick the blade is at the tip. I might try to massage the tip a little more, but I think it's pointy enough for my needs. Since the 30 degree edge bevel I put on it is a much thinner angle than the stock tanto edge bevel, maybe leaving it a little less pointy would be more robust.
 
Looks Good!! Thought it was just me! Always fun to have something a little different.

Warn 583-1 tanto:

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Done 2 of these, BM 523 tanto:

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I try to take it to more of a spearpoint than a droppoint. I prefer the lesser sweep I'm able to create, and the more-aggressive tip suits me as well.
 
Impressive work. Looks to me like you had to regrind the primary bevel, not just reprofile the edge shape. What tools/methods did you use?

I was able to get away with just working the edge because the L01's hollow grind is continuous all the way to the tip, it doesn't have the normal tanto facet grind near the tip. I'm not sure I could have achieved a spearpoint/semi-wharnie with the tools I have. Maybe I'll give it a shot with my second L01.
 
Remarkable what you were able to accomplish in a short period of time-- it looks original, very excellent.

I take the long way around-- flatsand the intersection of the 2 planes w/ differential pressure toward the edge, so I can control how the 2 planes eventually merge in to one. End up w/ a raw edge needing a complete reprofile as well as a sec'y. Since I freehand sharpen (s'paper on glass) as well the "roughing" eventually just extends into the sharpening.

Very timeconsuming, but also satisfying.
 
Hand Sand. A guy could use a belt sander certainly but I know (for me anyway) there's no way I could do that w/ the level of accuracy that handsanding allows.
 
Right side B&A:

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Same approach, this time to eliminate the recurve on an HK 14210. Top the finished product, bottom my spare in the original config:

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Little bit of sloppy overlap onto the blade flat above the main, oh well, always room for improvement!
 
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