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Without a sharpening choil, you get an area (right by the stress riser on this Manix original) and is difficult to sharpen without leaving some kind of unsharpened area and/or scrapes on the ricasso.
If you look at this Benchmade Skirmish and Spyderco Manix 1, I don't see how you'd think the Skirmish would be most likely to hang up.
Great move. People can't take the anti-choil heat! haha. I like everything above my handle sharp, if its on the blade and its not sharp, I don't like it. I want the blade to be sharp with no engineered dull areas. The spine? sure! Meant to be dull. But keep dull stuff off my business side lol!Take a small diamond file and put a radius on your choil, that way material that falls into the choil area will ride up and onto the blade, much like I did with this benchmade Tri-age folder
Benchmade_915_softenstart by GaryWGraley, on Flickr
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Take a small diamond file and put a radius on your choil, that way material that falls into the choil area will ride up and onto the blade, much like I did with this benchmade Tri-age folder
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I had to pinch grip my dragonfly on the blade using that classic spyderco ricasso as a faux grip to artificially delete it when cutting stuff because it always got hung up lol. I almost sharpened it all the way out one day.Without a sharpening choil, you get an area (right by the stress riser on this Manix original) and is difficult to sharpen without leaving some kind of unsharpened area and/or scrapes on the ricasso.
If you look at this Benchmade Skirmish and Spyderco Manix 1, I don't see how you'd think the Skirmish would be most likely to hang up.
Looks more like a clearance cutout for the button lock mechanism.
Available in all grinds. The one below is a scandi grind for the pro bushcrafters. The holes are only available on the signature model, of course. 
its right next to it, its the mate-up place for the stop index pin for closure. I can see the paint removed in big mouth billy right where it hits that stop pin when its closed. Good eye! Still wish it was sharp right to the handle. Gimme that low cutting "bore axis". The only choil i never really had an issue with was on the OG Slysz bowie, very mello choil, shallow and smooth transition into the cutting edge. Legendary, even though I could delete it there too and be happy.
Right, just move the handle forward some. If you do that, then the villagers from Handleratioburg will come and burn your barn down.
No! I don’t like the holes! Why does it have to have holes!I present to all, the world’s first perfect knife! All cutting edge, no choils, no icky handle of some terrible material to offend your senses. And look at that absolutely perfect blade to handle ratio! 100:0
Cut yourself? Man up and admit you were holding it wrong!
Ultra Apex Infinity plus 1.
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brings a tear to my eyeI present to all, the world’s first perfect knife! All cutting edge, no choils, no icky handle of some terrible material to offend your senses. And look at that absolutely perfect blade to handle ratio! 100:0
Cut yourself? Man up and admit you were holding it wrong!
Ultra Apex Infinity plus 1.
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Save money and don’t buy the signature model. Win win
No, I don’t like it so I don’t want any to have them. . .Save money and don’t buy the signature model. Win win
