Say what you will, that Nilakka blade is a thing of beauty.

Jack, how would you go about sharpening something like this if you were to leave it at a zero grind? Seems to me that you would almost have to lay the blade flat against your stone. Any angle up from flat would put SOME sort of secondary bevel on it even if it were only a few degrees.
 
KrisOK said:
Jack, how would you go about sharpening something like this if you were to leave it at a zero grind? Seems to me that you would almost have to lay the blade flat against your stone. Any angle up from flat would put SOME sort of secondary bevel on it even if it were only a few degrees.
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Yes you would lay the blade flat against the stone to maintain the zero grind. Of course, your question is purely academic because if you use the knife to the point where it needs sharpening you will have chips and rolls in the edge. To remove that edge damage, you will want to raise the sharpening angle.
 
Rolf, buffer or strop will result in a convex secondary bevel. Laying the blade flat on the stone is the only way to maintain the zero grind.And yes, the laser etched bug and Pekko's name will go away pretty quickly that way. The problem is, the steel just isn't hard enough to stabilize that low an included angle. It's fine for 30° included, marginal at best for 20° included and too soft for the 10° included of the full flat zero grind. Of course, if it were hard enough, Spyderco would be getting at least half of them back with big chunks broken out of the edge.
 
bayvillageidiot said:
I'll wait. :D
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JudasD said:
I really like the feel of this knife but i am afraid to use it in fear of damaging it. I can easily make the edge flex with only my fingernail. I'm not certain how adding a micro bevel would help with is unless you really removed a lot of the edge by adding the micro bevel.

JD
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You know, if I'd never seen the chimera that was the original zero grind, I'd be delighted w/ a knife that looks like that.
Just a bit of hand-wringing, and I'll either commit to a re-grind... or tread lightly with the very special knife I already have.

There's certainly nothing unreasonable about that micro-bevel.

Thanks very much for posting the pics, Mr. Yablanowitz !
 
Been out of the knife game for too long. The Nilakka was going to be my first new knife purchase in over 2 years! Sad to hear they're changing the original blade design, but all for the better though. I'll still pick up a new one when they start shipping. Hopefully someone will trade me their early model for my fixed one! :o
 
I love mine once I re profiled the edge.

I do think they should make it with a regular "scandi" grind though for rougher use.
 
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