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Spydeco Angle Measuring Tool?
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He also said he works for spyderco in that article, might be something from the shop there.
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Good point. Could very well be.
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If you find one let me know
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I wish you would e-mail me or PM me brother and let me know where you got it. I want one of those myself. My e-mail address is spyderjoe@kc.rr.com or you can PM me here on the bladeforums. I know that some dealers and internet sales people still have some laying around on their shelves but its still a hard item to find.
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If you're talking about this one:
I doubt any dealers have them because they were sold directly through Spyderco only.
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Yes, that is the one I wantIf you're talking about this one:
I doubt any dealers have them because they were sold directly through Spyderco only.
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Yes, that is the one I want
It's a nifty thing. I'm not sure why they never went into production, unless it was because quite a few people in the feedback thread seemed to misunderstand how to use it.
This one doesn't come with the Spyderco logo (
), but if you google Veritas® Bevel Gauge, that looks like an equivalent device with angle measurements from 15 to 45 every five degrees.- Joined
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misunderstanding, i found the article. i never knew spyderco made one, didn't know what it was. after i found it,(the article)realized i didn't need one.
good luck finding one tho.
If you're talking about this one:
I doubt any dealers have them because they were sold directly through Spyderco only.
Yep that's the one I want also. I have just about everything accessorie-wise that Spyderco has ever sold. I even still have a complete Galley V sharpening tool that's been off the market since the early 2000s. I would like to have one and I even have several things I could trade for it.
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Dang, JD! You are a serious collector. Bring-back-the-GALLEY-V
I had a Galley V from back in the 1990s. Had it mounted to my work bench in the garage and it was a fantastic tool. I used my SharpMaker as my portable sharpening rig and the Galley V as my shop rig. Great stuff.
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I find the Galley V excellent for long kitchen/culinary knives especially. Yeah I still use mine from time to time. I don't know how I missed this angle guide of theirs. I don't really need it per se but I generally get everything I can that Spyderco has ever produced when possible.
Those "cat's eye" stones that came with the Galley V kit are something special. I haven't found anything to sharpen my Dodo model nearly as good as the Galley V rods do.
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JD, I think you were off the forums when that little flap blew through. The angle gage was basically a failed experiment. Only a few were made, they sold at a loss and people threw fits over the cost, then found out how hard they are to use.
Yeah I think you're probably right about that. However I wasn't gone all that long it must have been a very short tenure for that item. Seems strange for Spyderco to put something out there that would fail. Their marketing and sales are great for the most part. That's quite an anomaly with all things considered.
It's probably going to be like the brand new Spyderco Mouse Pad I still have in the original package. It will probably be a super collector piece as time goes by. Or even more rare is the Jot Khalsa poster for the C-40. Yeah it's mind boggling what can happen in just a very short time period now a days.
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Other than that, though, there's no reason to think Spyderco wouldn't bring them back.
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Other than that, though, there's no reason to think Spyderco wouldn't bring them back.
Neither of those is a fair criticism IMO.
On the price, there was only one run of them; it isn't like Spyderco put some up for sale, they didn't sell out, and they dropped the price which meant they sold at a loss. In other words, it was their decision what to price them at, not due to market influence. That forum members balked at the price doesn't mean they couldn't have sold them for more on the open market (and a quick look at the forum shows complaining about price is not an extraordinary circumstance).
As for the other, it really is dead easy to use (no offense intended to anyone who had trouble). Stick it on the blade at a 90* angle to the edge and look to to see if each side of the edge runs along each side of that angle of the gauge. If the gauge's is more acute (i.e., it hits the edge bevel nearer the main grind and pulls further away from it near the apex), move to a larger angle and look again. If it's further away from the edge near the top of the bevel than the edge, you're using too large of an angle on the gauge, so move down and try again. You're just putting one angle in another to compare their sizes basically.
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Yep, it was the shipping costing more than the item that was chapping butts. And while it might be easy to use for the youngsters with great eyesight on thick-edged knives, try it sometime on one that is flat ground to 0.015" or less at the back of the edge bevel, then throw some cataracts into the mix. It makes things a bit tougher. But even at that, it was Sal who said they were too hard to use, and that they lost money on the whole deal.