Sabre goodies

[Crafft]

Here are some quick snapshots of my sabres...
Anyone else like the sabregrind over the flatground blades??

(please don't mind the "not so great" background )

 

[silverbullets]

very nice pictures, looks like you have yourself a good camera. I for one prefer the saber grinds to the flat grinds, I like the extra blade weight, also they are more pleasing to look at imho.

 

[Jeremy Horton]

They sell better I know that,,

 

[lsheldon]

I love your FSH, especially the dimples. Looks awesome. What thickness is that one? I'm assuming you stripped it yourself?

Thanks, Les.

 

[Crafft]

I love your FSH, especially the dimples. Looks awesome. What thickness is that one? I'm assuming you stripped it yourself?

Thanks, Les.

Yep stripped it myself after the coating became too worn off. It is a HHFSH approx. .27" thick (that is with the coating).

 

[jimmyjones]

Saber fan,


Can't quite get my mind around it, but a .150 saber seems stiffer than a .170 flat grind



Any ME's want to edgimacate me ?

 

[stabber]

Nice!! Nice polished edges too

 

[westllen]

beautiful knives, congrats!:thumbup:

 

[Snakedoc]

Sabres are sexy, thats for sure. I am going to have to find a 1 of 300 outlaw some day!!

 

[pushingmongo]

I prefer the saber myself. Beautiful pics/knives!

 

[xaman]

I'm definitely a saber fan :thumbup: :thumbup:

a poor picture, but they are all sabers

 

[Tree Herder V]

Great knives and awesome pics! I'm also sabre grind fan. Because of sabre grind BATAC looks much more better for me than SJT.

 

[MustardMan]

I'm definitely a saber fan :thumbup: :thumbup:

a poor picture, but they are all sabers

I tend to prefer the balance of a full flat grind, plus I like the way a full flat performs when batoning - works a lot more like a splitting wedge. That transition between the grind and the flat of the blade can bind up when batoning.


That said, I'll take the one on the far left or the one on the far right in your picture :thumbup:

 

[xaman]

I tend to prefer the balance of a full flat grind, plus I like the way a full flat performs when batoning - works a lot more like a splitting wedge. That transition between the grind and the flat of the blade can bind up when batoning.


That said, I'll take the one on the far left or the one on the far right in your picture :thumbup:

LOL, havn't you heard --- with Mofos you don't have to baton...

They slice through vertical logs like warm butter

Chopping machines :thumbup:

 

[silverdragon33]

sweet knives. i like saber a whole lot better than flat. also, my experience with flat ground busses is that the grind seems to go up too far on one side making it thinner than the tang

 

[rt014]

Not such good background....but crystal clear shots of those knives...very nice

 

[rbmcmjr]

That transition between the grind and the flat of the blade can bind up when batoning.

Can you amplify on this? It seems to me that saber would be a plus for this because there is less material on the flats to "drag".

 

[tanto boy]

Saber grind, no saber grind?

It's a busse. What's not to like?

Nice pics and awesome knives!

 

[xaman]

Can you amplify on this? It seems to me that saber would be a plus for this because there is less material on the flats to "drag".

I would think the grind line of the saber grind would act as the wedge?

Even better is a deep hollow grind with a thick convex edge --- where the edge is thicker than the hollow ground portion --- then the edge acts as the wedge, with very little material dragging/binding against the wood...

 

[MustardMan]

Can you amplify on this? It seems to me that saber would be a plus for this because there is less material on the flats to "drag".

Just something I've observed comparing full flat versus saber ground knives...

If I had to guess, I would say the wood probably deforms about that sharp transition point a bit, and that's the source of the binding. I know the coating wears heavily around that transition area, and MUCH faster than on my full flat knives, which tells me there's more friction in that area.

If a saber grind was ideal for splitting, that's how axes would be ground

I do agree that other geometries have at least the potential to be more efficient than full flat, but given the choice between full flat and saber I usually opt for the former.