What's happening in the David Mary Custom shop?

Change of pace. Just a short evenings of regrinds. Pics later if I remember
 
I was asked to regrind an Montana Americana Hudson Bay knife, in 1/4" stock thickness.

Here is the pic from their website.

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But here is the actual knife the customer received (used). It was 3/16" behind the edge, the thickest I've ever seen a knife.

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The edge bevels do not even apex at the heel for a full inch and a quarter. I don't claim to grind perfectly, and I understand that sometimes the interaction between platen clearance and handle scales can get in the way of making an apex start right at the heel. But I don't see how this was justified.

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This is better.
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Unfortunately I forgot to retouch up the edge, after reshaping it with 36 grit, so I have to take it back to the shop tomorrow.

But here are a couple geometry test pics while I was still grinding with 36 grit. I went a bit thinner still after this.


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Here it is now:

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I forgot to notify the customer before he shipped about my regrind mark, so I have not put it on yet. Awaiting word back from him, and I'll make a point to remember to mention it when people first contact me.
 
And after that job, I decided to add serrations to two knives I made that have not sold yet, and one that I bought. First, pics from the shop:

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After that I refined the points, and brought them home and honed them on the white SharpMaker stone, and stropped with green compound on a slack belt. They all slice paper cleanly and take hair off my arm.

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Drats. The green one is snagging a bit on paper. And I know why. The other two, I ground the opposite side bevel zero (MagnaCut) or very near zero (the Resilience) before installing the serrations. The green 15N20 hawkbill was already pretty thin, but not quite zero ground, so I skipped that step on it. I'll fix that tomorrow too. But it still takes arm hair, and zips through cardboard and rope...
 
Not sure what I'm missing, that weather report looks like summer is well on its way 😉. Mirrors us pretty close right now. Do they mean light rain like sprinkling or light rain like is sunny and the sky is peeing on you directly?😂
 
Thanks but that isn't my design
 
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