Scandi Grind

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What are the advantages and dis-advantages of a Scandi grind?

Thanks for any input.

Don
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Advantages, it's thicker for a given thickness of steel.
Disadvantages, it's thicker for a given thickness of steel.
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Scandi grind sharpens easily if you lay the entire bevel on the stone. It also seems to support the edge and tip well. It is very controllable when cutting wood, because you can lay the bevel on the wood.
 
Everyone raves about scandi grinds as being so easy to resharpen. I made a very crude one years ago just to get a feel for it, and I tend not to agree.

It may be easy to keep the 'angle' while grinding the edge but it also means that instead of grinding off a little section at the tip, you have to skim a little layer of the entire face of the blade every time you sharpen


The advantage to me is not having a secondary bevel tends to make slicing through things much easier. great for biltong!! (jerkey).. and thats important!

Lang
 
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