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Killdeer

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For awhile now I've searched for a folding pocket knife with a bevel grind on one side only. The other side would be perfectly flat. Sharpening the knife would be done by stoning the bevel side, while maintaining the flatness of the other side. Woodworkers use this design in marking knives, often maintaining two, one for marking on either side of a straight edge. I've not been able to find such a pocket knife. Can anyone here suggest a source?
 
I don't know of any production folders ground this way but there are a few custom makers who have made folding knives with this grind.

The one that comes immediately to mind is farid. farid.
 
DMG said:
I am curious as to why you would want a chisel grind.
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The Wharncliff blade I just ordered should be very good as a marking knife, and a folding knife won't eat through the pocket of my shop apron. I'm good at sharpening my wood chisels by hand, and it should be just as quick and easy to sharpen. Also, with half the included angle of a traditional grind, I expect it will perform well for delicate slicing.
 
Killdeer said:
The Wharncliff blade I just ordered should be very good as a marking knife, and a folding knife won't eat through the pocket of my shop apron. I'm good at sharpening my wood chisels by hand, and it should be just as quick and easy to sharpen. Also, with half the included angle of a traditional grind, I expect it will perform well for delicate slicing.
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It sounds like you have thought this through. Please let us know what you get and how it works.
 
I do not quite get the search for a single beer: If that is what you really want, If it were me (recognizing that it is not me) I would get out my Lansky kit, and use the coarse diamond stone to re-work one side to get the bevil I wanted. ?then ue the other stones to polish it to an acceptable edge.

Buy the knife you like, then make it into the knife you want it to be.
 
VorpelSword said:
I do not quite get the search for a single beer: If that is what you really want, If it were me (recognizing that it is not me) I would get out my Lansky kit, and use the coarse diamond stone to re-work one side to get the bevil I wanted. ?then ue the other stones to polish it to an acceptable edge.

Buy the knife you like, then make it into the knife you want it to be.
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That's going to be a difficult method, effectively becoming a regrind for the knife in order to achieve what he's after. It'd be easier to just buy a knife with a grind approximating what he's looking for, and go from there.
 
Quiet said:
That's going to be a difficult method, effectively becoming a regrind for the knife in order to achieve what he's after. It'd be easier to just buy a knife with a grind approximating what he's looking for, and go from there.
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Exactly right. I wouldn't want to do a complete regrind with stones period. Even less so on a steel with even moderate wear resistance.

Exercise in futility.
 
J. Doyle said:
Exactly right. I wouldn't want to do a complete regrind with stones period. Even less so on a steel with even moderate wear resistance.

Exercise in futility.
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Exactly. It's along the lines of being somewhere for vacation, and instead of renting a room for a couple nights, deciding to build a small house to sleep in instead. 🤣
 
If you are open to traditional folders, the original and newer models of the Okapi are chisel ground.

Edit: I just saw that you already ordered a CRKT. Very nice, I hope you enjoy it.
 
Killdeer said:
For awhile now I've searched for a folding pocket knife with a bevel grind on one side only.
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Like this ?

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