Why Doesn't Spyderco Like Sharpening Choils?

[Lenny]

Pretty much every Spyderco I've ever owned hasn't had a sharpening choil. Does anybody know why this is? Is it a cost cutting decision? Is it a styling decision?
I've started cutting in small choils with my Dremel to stop the "recurve" tendency during sharpening.
Do any of you also cut in sharpening choils?
Cheers

 

[StoneAndSteel]

I don't remember where I read it, but it was from a source I thought credible at the time. But it's exactly for this reason. Sharpening choils often interfere with cutting things like 550 chord. I actually put a choil on one of my PM2's and actually didn't really care for it. Most of my knives have choils, but I'm really not dedicated either way.

 

[King of the Cheese]

I think the average knife buyer doesn’t need one. It’s a numbers thing. You think of all the delicas, enduras, dragonflys etc they sell and the fact that they provide a “sharpen and return” service, it isn’t really all that necessary.
Me? I’m not even a fan. I’d rather have more edge.

 

[yablanowitz]

Many of us dislike those notches since they often snag on thin materials. It is a lot easier for someone who wants one to add it than it is for someone to remove it if they don't want it.

 

[soc_monki]

As was said before, Spyderco doesn't do sharpening choils because of the snags you get with them. People complain all the time about how they can't sharpen the whole blade but I don't find it to be a problem. Then again I freehand sharpen, and using a system like KME, Lansky, or Wicked Edge would make it difficult to get all the way to the plunge.

 

[uxo2]

Maybe because more people hate them

 

[C_Claycomb]

Spyderco tend to grind many knives with a very tight plunge cut, not much in the way of a blend from ricasso to bevel. This means that if your sharpener can cut right to the edge, there is less problem with recurving.