Sharpening choils are a psyop.

[David Mary]

Lucky Dog Knife Co designed choils on the knives he has me make for him. And I put a radius on ‘em.

Bear in mind final honing is not done yet.

 

[Andy the Aussie]

Choil me baby…..choil me hard. I personally think a knife is defective without one

 

[KnightAspirant]

Choil me baby…..choil me hard. I personally think a knife is defective without one

choiled and oiled for you eh? To each their own! hahah

 

[Medieval Peasant]

Look at this thing, its like the Big Mouth Billy the Bass of choils! hahaha The great collector of materials. I also feel the same with finger choils. just give me a spot for my finger on the handle.View attachment 3157835

Oh, now I see the problem; It’s serrated!

 

[David Mary]

Oh, now I see the problem; It’s serrated!

The problem is not serrations. It's the poorly thought out design of most production serrations, especially in terms of thickness behind the edge and difficulty of sharpening.

 

[Danke42]

Do recurves next

 

[David Mary]

Recurves with serrations and no choil are a psyop

 

[AntDog]

I've been using this knife hard for two decades on my homestead. I've never had it hang up. I've never had a problem with the sharpening choil, which does make the blade easier to sharpen.

That’s not really what I consider a sharpening choil. That’s almost a finger choil.

 

[David Mary]

Too big to be a sharpening choil, too small to be a finger choil.... why even exist? Someone thought it looked cool is my guess.

 

[Medieval Peasant]

The problem is not serrations. It's the poorly thought out design of most production serrations, especially in terms of thickness behind the edge and difficulty of sharpening.

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They have their place but by no means replace a plain edge.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

Too big to be a sharpening choil, too small to be a finger choil.... why even exist? Someone thought it looked cool is my guess.

I've heard Some here call it a dropped edge.
Idk....

 

[Ironbut]

dont like them. dont need them to sharpen.

I never really gave choils that much thought until I saw this thread. Anyway........I cut a 20-some foot sheet of heavy rubber roofing with this one yesterday, and it didn't get hung up.

 

[KnightAspirant]

Do recurves next

finger choils and blade coatings are up next. both are psyops levied against the community to destroy us

 

[David Mary]

I've heard Some here call it a dropped edge.
Idk....

What I don’t like is how it forces the hand away from the edge preventing that sweet biomechanically optimal grip.

 

[SharpBits]

Too big to be a sharpening choil, too small to be a finger choil.... why even exist? Someone thought it looked cool is my guess.

Looks to me like Benchmade didn't want that difficult to sharpen portion of the edge near the plunge to be present. Spyderco leaves it and people complain, Benchmade removes it and people complain. Must be frustrating for both companies.

 

[KnightAspirant]

What I don’t like is how it forces the hand away from the edge preventing that sweet biomechanically optimal grip.

whoever went and said "I know how to improve a blade- lets add a sizable dull area right above the grip where all the power stroke is." and they genuinely spun it as some kind of upgrade lol. reinventing the wheel to add a flat spot

 

[David Mary]

My friend Sharp & Fiery is a very knowledgeable knife owner and user, and his preferred style of handle to blade relationship is, in my opinion, one of the most sensible and efficient for a knife meant to be used. He has me make the useable grip area go very close to the handle, in combination with what Crag called the dropped edge.

At the request of David, I am posting my DMC’s here. They are all pretty special to me with their fancy handles.

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I’ll have to take a photo with their respective sheaths at some point.

 

[Boru13]

How can you have a thread about choils and not mention Strider

 

[David Mary]

Because who doesn’t want a foot of handle and two and a half inches of cutting edge?

 

[SharpBits]

I try to always avoid mentioning them.