Sifu backcuts

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Kallisti

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I've been moving closer and closer to sharpening the last centimeter or so of my Sifu's false edge/swedge (terminology?) ever since I got it. Before I go for it I'm curious how many Sifu owners out there have thought about or done this? Of those that have if any, how has it been a help or hinderance?

Yours wonderingly

Kallisti.
 
well i know this is gonna start something, but, imho i wouldnt because REKAT considers spine whacking abuse, i dont think the lock is designed to be stressed in that direction, and could possibly fail, and cut ya - but i could be wrong .....

also makes the knife illegal in my neck of the woods....


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The Sifu will do almost as much damage with the tip the way it comes. I have tested my Sifu doing back cuts, but would not intentionally do one in real life, nor would it be a good idea to do them regularly in training as the lock will take it for a while but not indefinately.
 
If you're going to practice back cuts with a folder use protection. One of the good cut resistant gloves with Sprecta will save you some fingers if the lock fails. These gloves are under $20.00 and they do work . I would test with the glove and if there were no failures with glove I would use the back cut only if needed for real. Let us know how the testing goes!!!;)
 
Cut resistant gloves! Now there's a good idea.

I wasn't planning to do any strike testing due to lock stress. However,I would trust the rolling lock to hold up if it had to in an emergency (i.e. not repeatedly). I just thought it would be a useful thing to do - like "it's there - so sharpen it!" I have to agree that it doesn't really need it.

No-one succumbed to this temptation?
 
How about doing this with a REKAT Pocket Hobbit? I've always thought the PH would be a good candidate for this because of the fact that the back edge of the blade is entirely enclosed within the handle when it's closed.

-Latebound
 
imho few have succumbed to the temptation because of questions about the rolling lock when stressed in that way - bob brothers himself has said that spine whacking rolling locks constitutes abuse, and if ya can stress the lock in a way the designer himself has said may lead to failure, dont be suprised if it fails and folds up on ya

i put my sifu up in the safe and now carry a buck/strider, just because of questions about the rolling lock, and probs i have had....

no knock on rekat intended.


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The only folder that I have tried back cuts with that happen effectively...understanding that a backcut is a non-telegraphic movement...like going to point from a guard...

Is a Balisong. You don't have to hold it edge up either...does not have to be double edged. You just go to the secondary grip which I think the proper terminology is foil. Meaning, flip [simple, not all crazy] to open, horizontal, flip back, your thumb can go on the FLAT of the blade or at the end of the handles...you can get some amazingly fast, backcutting action in that grip as the edge is oriented to do so and you can do it right off of the opening.

For a right handed, edge will be facing left, flat of the blade parallel with the ground.
 
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