I could make this long tale every bit as long as it was. Since results count, I won't.
Many years ago I invested a great deal of money in hunting sheath knives that were intended to be superior to the Morseth knives I used. My new knives were beautiful, my order based upon the best hyperbole overpaid copywriters were paid to create. Too thick and convex ground, they worked acceptably until they needed touching up. Why I had no trouble with Morseths but was impotent regarding "my" knives was a festering sore. I returned to the Morseths.
Years pass. Every so often, I would query for a solution. And finally one was offered. A knife maker in Louisville, Kentucky, Chris Berry, was suggested to me. He was supposed to regrind knives. Photographs appeared to show nice work. I wrote to him, then called. Since my built-to-order knives were door stops and Mr. Berry's price for regrind and return shipping was chump change compared with the knives' cost, I sent them to him. He reground one, thinning from blade's back in a flat grind and sent it to me to try. After using it as a butcher-kitchen knife for a couple of weeks, I was happy as a clam. It worked as well as the Morseth of the same general configuration while having improved edge retention and essentially "stainless" tarnish resistance. The other knives were comparably reground - the grind being, perhaps, more precise than the first.
I cannot endorse Mr. Berry's quality of work or his speed of turnaround more highly.
Chris Berry's contact information is:
Big Chris Custom Knives
www.bigchriscustomknives.com
502/262-9837
Many years ago I invested a great deal of money in hunting sheath knives that were intended to be superior to the Morseth knives I used. My new knives were beautiful, my order based upon the best hyperbole overpaid copywriters were paid to create. Too thick and convex ground, they worked acceptably until they needed touching up. Why I had no trouble with Morseths but was impotent regarding "my" knives was a festering sore. I returned to the Morseths.
Years pass. Every so often, I would query for a solution. And finally one was offered. A knife maker in Louisville, Kentucky, Chris Berry, was suggested to me. He was supposed to regrind knives. Photographs appeared to show nice work. I wrote to him, then called. Since my built-to-order knives were door stops and Mr. Berry's price for regrind and return shipping was chump change compared with the knives' cost, I sent them to him. He reground one, thinning from blade's back in a flat grind and sent it to me to try. After using it as a butcher-kitchen knife for a couple of weeks, I was happy as a clam. It worked as well as the Morseth of the same general configuration while having improved edge retention and essentially "stainless" tarnish resistance. The other knives were comparably reground - the grind being, perhaps, more precise than the first.
I cannot endorse Mr. Berry's quality of work or his speed of turnaround more highly.
Chris Berry's contact information is:
Big Chris Custom Knives
www.bigchriscustomknives.com
502/262-9837