Sykco 911 actual blade height?

extrastout

extrastout

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Broke the tip on my new, hair shaving sharp 911 (small tip break) the first day I used it, so I sent it in and had it reprofiled back on. The blade was completely sharpened when I got it back....I could tell because it was not as sharp compared to when I sent it in. The blade came back looking like a lot of stock came off from the sharpening (looking at the choil area). I read the blade height was suppose to be 1.7. My blade measure 1.610 toward the handle and 1.645 toward the belly. I know this is a bit nit picky (curse of being a machinist) but want to see if anyone out there can get me the actual spec of this blade, or measure theirs. This is a curiosity thread, and also will help me decide my course of action if I have blade issues and down the road
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extrastout said:
Thats all I needed, thanks Rob
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My pleasure friend . . . In the future if you send your knife in with a note to leave the rest of the edge alone, if possible —— they will. I would recommend following up with a phone call while the knife is on its way to Ohio.

I know how frustrating/annoying it can be aesthetically to look at your knife and see the tip broken off. I imagine the shop was forced to take a decent amount of steel off to make the knife look normal from choil to new tip
 
Rob_Mob said:
My pleasure friend . . . In the future if you send your knife in with a note to leave the rest of the edge alone, if possible —— they will. I would recommend following up with a phone call while the knife is on its way to Ohio.

I know how frustrating/annoying it can be aesthetically to look at your knife and see the tip broken off. I imagine the shop was forced to take a decent amount of steel off to make the knife look normal from choil to new tip
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Absolutely, I should of explained to keep the main edge. I also wanted to at least dull the edge before sending it out, to make the most of the trip to Ohio. Dulling this steel seemed like it would take years. This was the sharpest Busse or kin I have gotten. Perfect narrow edge too.... Yes your right, the tip just bothered me, and was just a little to much for me to profile it back on. I hate losing good steel on a blade like this, especially on a perfectly fine edge. The knife might need that steel for reworking future chips and dings out on a hard use bruiser blade like this down the road. I was just trying to figure out how much actually got ground off.....I still don't know for sure if they even took that much off. Just looks that way to me. Thats why I was looking for the original specs on blade height..... Lesson learned either way, warranty was honored and I got what I asked for :D
 
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