Why don't we like recurve?

They look cool, but I just don't find them to be as practical in my every-day tasks. They're also more difficult to sharpen (on either ceramic rods or my Edge Pro's flat stones).

 
I have two recurves, a ZT0200, and a ZT0600. My Spyderco Sharpmaker takes care of both. Using the edges of the triangular stones allows you to to get every bit of the blade sharpened evenly. I don't care really care one way or the other about recurves, I can take them or leave them.
 
Same here. I have a couple of newer Cold Steel Vaquero bladed Voyagers & I've had no trouble sharpening & reprofiling them on my Spyderco Sharpmaker. The diamond rods are a must for reprofiling, though.
 
I don't think that they're really any harder to sharpen you just have to pay more attention and maybe use different techniques/equipment. That being said though, I don't see what the point in using a recurve blade that I never feel like I've got equally sharp on all parts of the blade, when the recurve shape itself doesn't appeal to me at all. There are certain types of knives that I would get that incoporate it like a kukri but past that, I just tend to avoid most production knives with recurves because I don't like them, don't want to deal with them and haven't really ever seen any knife that is like "Oh I would definteily get that... If it wasn't for the recurve."
 
I like mild recurves to use. Used to be I couldn't really sharpen any blade shape properly, so I got a Wicked Edge, and now I can :)
The WE diamond stones seem to have no trouble sharpening a mildly recurved edge if one goes gently at it - the pressure you apply to the stone is not distributed over the full width of the stone like with a straight edge, rather its on 1 or 2 very narrow parts of the stones surface as one strokes away.
The WE ceramic stones however can shave away the edges of the stone on a recurve quite easily.
 
Now this curvalicious blade isn't an easy one to sharpen for me...

 
I love recurve blades, and one of my favorite knives has a nicely sized recurve.
 
I use a sharpmaker for any inverted curved blades. Recurve, karambit, hawkbill. They all get a nice razor edge from the sharpmaker. A reprofile would be a pain in the butt. But I prefer to just maintain the edge as long as it's ay a good angle to begin with
 
link2derek said:
They look cool, but I just don't find them to be as practical in my every-day tasks. They're also more difficult to sharpen (on either ceramic rods or my Edge Pro's flat stones).

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Thanks Derek.

I haven't owned a Skirmish in years and when I did I didn't use it often enough to sharpen before selling. But just looking at this photo, it doesn't look like this particular blade would be any different to sharpen regularly, no? Again, never sharpened it so I don't know, and maybe my eyes are terrible at noticing these details but the recurve isn't very noticeable on the Skirmish to me...
 
Who doesn't like recurves? I love em! They cut like crazy and look awesome. They are not hard to sharpen at all. Just use corners instead of flats. Bench stone or rods. Round crock sticks work too. Just don't think you can sharpen them on a flat bench stone like a flat edge. It won't work.
 
I love khuks, so i'm by default a recurve lover:D

I've found that an ounce of prevention is your friend. I simply strop my knives often which keeps me from having to figure out a way to hone the blade if I let them get overly dull.

I live a slightly folded piece of leather to make a shallow "U" and give it about 30 licks per side. If it slices paper, we're good. I might take the tip and belly to popping sharp.
 
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