Spartan shf or sebenza

taste.blade said:
I tried to reprofile my Spartan and the edge was so thick it quickly became a hack job. I apexed the edge, barely, then reset to a wider angle to finish out.
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What angles and system were you using? I was able to reprofile my first Pallas to 20DPS on the sharpmaker, it just took some patience. the heel of the blade was a bit more obtuse, so it took a little more time, otherwise it was fine. The Pallas I bought last month came with an even better edge, that perfectly matches my sharpmaker.
 
Silent H said:
What angles and system were you using? I was able to reprofile my first Pallas to 20DPS on the sharpmaker, it just took some patience. the heel of the blade was a bit more obtuse, so it took a little more time, otherwise it was fine. The Pallas I bought last month came with an even better edge, that perfectly matches my sharpmaker.
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I honestly don’t remember the edge angle I started with, probably around 25 degree inclusive edge on my kme. Stayed on the kme without repositioning the blade and dropped to 32 inclusive approximately. These are professional knife sharpening edge angle secrets so please don’t share this post too broadly. As you see I was just messing around on my own knife so I gave my opinion honestly, I really like both brands.
 
kylemiller said:
Watch the Apostle P video on the SHF. There are some rookie design decisions in how it's put together. The only locating pin is the pivot. I don't know if Spartan has revised the design since then, because I'm fairly certain he's looking at it when it was a newer release. I love the look of the SHF but I hate the construction. I've fought with that build philosophy on other knives and stay away from it now. Shoulder those backspacers and you'd be all good. Or mill a locating nub in the backspacer like Shirogorov does.

It's a real shame. If they fixed the locating issues and started sharpening the blade all the way to the ricasso I'd probably own more than 1. Someone please let me know if the locating issue has been revised.

Even with all that fixed it would really have to blow my socks off because I consider the clip point large Sebenza 21 the best folding knife of all time. (even though I don't own one currently, typing this post is gonna make me buy one. again.)
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What issues, exactly, have occurred with this model, based on design and construction? Out designing the designer (especially a knife legend like William Harsey), based on a YouTube video of a guy trying to do the same thing, is just naive.
 
Sharpwalt79 said:
Lots of good info here... thanks guys. I do think I'll try the harsey first... most appreciated guys.
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I would have went with a Sebenza first, but the SHF is no slouch. My biggest criticism of the SHF is the sweeping plunge grind--you lose a good chunk of cutting edge on the Spartan. Maybe you lose that bit o' edge with a sharpening choil anyway, but as is, it looks kinda sloppy, IMO.

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Even so, the SHF is a nice knife overall.

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taste.blade said:
I honestly don’t remember the edge angle I started with, probably around 25 degree inclusive edge on my kme. Stayed on the kme without repositioning the blade and dropped to 32 inclusive approximately. These are professional knife sharpening edge angle secrets so please don’t share this post too broadly. As you see I was just messing around on my own knife so I gave my opinion honestly, I really like both brands.
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You sharpened a SHF at 12.5 DPS?
 
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