What Do I Have Here?!

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McSoappy

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So a buddy was over a few years ago and told me he found something and I could have it. He then handed me the knife pictured below. I've been too lazy to find out what it is, but decided to take some pics today. What do I have here? I'm also wondering if I can get a new blade for it as the current one is pretty smoked.









Thanks,
David
 
What you have is the Benchmade version of the Emerson CQC-7 I believe. It is not the knife linked, that's a Benchmade Stryker.

It's called the "Benchmade Emerson" maybe? I'm not completely failure with the knife, but I recognize it. They were made in both chisel and symmetrical grind. And were/are a pretty popular knife.

Here is a photo shamelessly stolen from the Internet.

 
Model is 970; there's also a longer 975.

Don't think they ever made a symmetric grind version?
 
BM made a run of the 970 series with a solid titanium, carbide-edged blade. I think that's what you've got, as the carbide edge appears to be showing up on the flat side of the blade. I think what you have is the 970ST. The blade appears to be in pretty darned good shape to me, to be titanium. I say, let her roll as-is.

Prof.
 
Send her in to BM for a new factory edge (minus serrations).
A lot of life left in it.
 
Bead-blasted/sand-blasted ti tends to take a beating fairly quickly. I once had a ti watchband that was blasted but ended up looking stonewashed after several months of wear. In fact, I bet that blade wear came from breaking down cardboard boxes!

Prof.
 
McSoappy said:
Completely understand, but it's just not useful anymore and Benchmade apparently doesn't sharpen the serrations.
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Serrations are not nearly as hard to sharpen as people make out. I mean, no it's not as easy as a plain edge, but it's not hard. It's fine detail work and a little tedious...but very satisfying if you have any sharpening junkie in you.

Get a sharpening slip of a couple of grits or get a DMT serration sharpening tool (it's a cone shaped diamond rod about 3 inches long...a very pointy cone). Go at it easy and get a nice little apex on each curved serration. Then move to a finer slip (I just use the SharpMaker white rods) and very carefully work the edge of each individual serration. Then get a chopstick or a bamboo skewer and put some green compound on it. Strop each serration. Then tape up the serrations and sharpen the plain part like normal. Take off the tape and strop the whole thing like normal.

I count 10 serrated portions...10 little "recurves". Give each one about or two minutes of your time and that great knife will be very sharp. Again, it's detail work but to restore a beauty like that, it will be well worth a half an hour of your time.

If you use diamonds, go easy. If you use the brown SharpMaker ceramic slips you can really go at it pretty hard without altering the profile of the serrations.
 
HoosierQ said:
Serrations are not nearly as hard to sharpen as people make out. I mean, no it's not as easy as a plain edge, but it's not hard. It's fine detail work and a little tedious...but very satisfying if you have any sharpening junkie in you.

Get a sharpening slip of a couple of grits or get a DMT serration sharpening tool (it's a cone shaped diamond rod about 3 inches long...a very pointy cone). Go at it easy and get a nice little apex on each curved serration. Then move to a finer slip (I just use the SharpMaker white rods) and very carefully work the edge of each individual serration. Then get a chopstick or a bamboo skewer and put some green compound on it. Strop each serration. Then tape up the serrations and sharpen the plain part like normal. Take off the tape and strop the whole thing like normal.

I count 10 serrated portions...10 little "recurves". Give each one about or two minutes of your time and that great knife will be very sharp. Again, it's detail work but to restore a beauty like that, it will be well worth a half an hour of your time.

If you use diamonds, go easy. If you use the brown SharpMaker ceramic slips you can really go at it pretty hard without altering the profile of the serrations.
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Maybe I will give that a try! Just don't wanna mess anything up as I'm considering selling it here on the forums. I just don't like tanto blades and think someone else could probably do a better job than me on the serrations. And now that I think about it, I think I sent this back to Benchmade and they reground the flat portion of the tanto.
 
McSoappy said:
Completely understand, but it's just not useful anymore and Benchmade apparently doesn't sharpen the serrations.
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Buy yourself a Sharpmaker, you can sharpen just about anything with it, including serrations. It's not that hard.
 
What I would do is send your knife up to Benchmade. While they don't sharpen serrations as policy, (they're easy to sharpen...) I use a diamond rat tail cheapo which works great. Even if you do offer it up for sale it's nearly the same as taking a car and giving it a final tuneup and servicing. There's nothing wrong with that blade, the handles look solid and from what I can see the thing is pretty clean.
 
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