Who get's tired of re-profiling?

[C.S. Graves]

Two words, belt sander.

Here's two more:

Amen, brother! :thumbup:

 

[Ben Dover]

My Spyderco MILLIES, are both polished to mirror bright, ang razor blade sharp.

The S90V and CPM D-2 were both rebevelled to 15 per side, and the S90V polished to .1 micron diamomd. The CPM D-2 MILLIE was only polished to 5000 grit, but I can guarantee you that you wouldn't want to cut yourself with it.

I wish that Sal would make a run of CPM M-4 MILLIES so I could see what a MILLIE would do at 10 degrees per side and .1 micron diamond! :thumbup:

Ben

 

[theonew]

This is the crap that pisses me off

That's about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of blade on a fairly small fixed blade that will just stay there until I use up the rest of the edge, in say 2 or 3 years :grumpy: Sure even without a belt sander, just using DMT X-coarse, I could get rid of this in under an hour, but sheeez all that steel wasted

 

[jimnolimit]

This is the crap that pisses me off

That's about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of blade on a fairly small fixed blade that will just stay there until I use up the rest of the edge, in say 2 or 3 years :grumpy: Sure even without a belt sander, just using DMT X-coarse, I could get rid of this in under an hour, but sheeez all that steel wasted

^ what knife is that ?

 

[yablanowitz]

This is the crap that pisses me off

That's about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch of blade on a fairly small fixed blade that will just stay there until I use up the rest of the edge, in say 2 or 3 years :grumpy: Sure even without a belt sander, just using DMT X-coarse, I could get rid of this in under an hour, but sheeez all that steel wasted

Yeah, I've seen that on a few hundred of the new knives I've purchased. It's one of those things that is so common I never felt it was worth commenting on.

 

[theonew]

^ what knife is that ?

I can't even remember anymore, I've seen this on so many knives.

 

[Marlinaholic]

Got a minty BM 580 yesterday and thought of this thread. It had a somewhat uneven bevel of well over 50 degrees inclusive and was pretty dull to boot. Oh well, she is about 35 degrees inclusive now and scares the hair right off my arm Now I gotta do the 585 I got months ago that has just as crappy an edge :barf: Got a Native III I gotta do too, its bevel is even, but again, fairly obtuse.

 

[Jeff Clark]

I'm now 60 years old and bad factory edges have always been the norm. There are manufacturers that defy the norm, but I tend to reprofile even their work. I agree that one of the most annoying varieties of bad grinds is when there is a half inch obtuse or unsharpened section near the base of the blade. It is hard to fix that without leaving the bevel conspicuously reground--even with a belt sander or diamond hone.