Why F1 but not other stainless knives?

hollowdweller said:
I don't think I really agree with that guy
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This is what he put...

Once stropping no longer works, most of us end up sharpening a convex edge like any other knife with a set flat bevel on both sides.Over time this will defeat the purpose of a convex edge,but there aren't many good ways to really hone them in the field. I have a feeling the Marines will run into this problem eventually,but a knife that is intended to keep you alive should be worth sending back to the factory for reconvexing once in a while.

He was talking about the Bark River Force Recon.
 
pitdog said:
He was talking about the Bark River Force Recon.
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That's almost funny.

It's true that knife knuts can get obsessive about precisely correct and effective methods of sharpening. But the world developed sharp knives before it developed knife knuts.

Marines aren't seen as intellectuals. This shouldn't lead us to believe they can't maintain their weapons and other equipment. Obviously, they can. Obsessively, in fact. :)

I am sure they chose the convex edge in part for its ease of maintenance. Otherwise they could simply have had Bark River put another kind of edge on the Bravo-1.
 
I am still in town today and logged on to see if anyone had answered me. Wow! Interestingly enough I am surprised by a different twist to this post. I have never sharpened a convex edge and I have a lot of friends who can take very good care of their weapons that carry a knife everyday but cannot sharpen a knife to save their life and have no desire to learn. I thought the guy in tactical knives sounded reasonable. When I was in ROTC in college most of us had knives and I was the only one who knew how to sharpen one out of the 20 or so of us.

I am going to have to experiment with this to help my ignorance. I have been sharpening freehand on a stone too long that I would have sharpened the convex edge right off and not thought anything about it. I thought the whole mouse pad and sandpaper sounded harder to do than using a stone. I must investigate when i get back.

I think of most fixed blade knives from a deer hunting standpoint as that is the only field experience where I have carried a fixed blade much. I always like stainless because I could never get all the blood off in the field and didn't want it to rust.

So what I get so far is f1= convex grind, quality manufacture and most of you would get it reguardless of good carbon or good stainless steel used? Sounds like it is the perfect blend of form, function, and customer service. I do prefer the balance of a non full tang and also a rubber sort of handle in the F1 over the very nice looking Bark Rivers. Thanks for the replies so far and keep them coming please.

DaleW-Do you have a stainless chopper too? I always wondered about the durability of my SOG
 
Esav Benyamin said:
That's almost funny.

It's true that knife knuts can get obsessive about precisely correct and effective methods of sharpening. But the world developed sharp knives before it developed knife knuts.

Marines aren't seen as intellectuals. This shouldn't lead us to believe they can't maintain their weapons and other equipment. Obviously, they can. Obsessively, in fact. :)

I am sure they chose the convex edge in part for its ease of maintenance. Otherwise they could simply have had Bark River put another kind of edge on the Bravo-1.
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I keep saying this but if you guys saw the way soldiers and marines treated their knives you would have a fit. I know where ultra strong sharpened prybars originated and that is the military, they have to build them that way so they will last more than a couple of days. I have met exactly one other soldier that can sharpen a knife, in 17 years of active duty. I have seen several that can scar and scrape one up and get it sharp enough to hack with but not actually what I would call sharp. Chris
 
I have a BlackJack Grunt which has a convex edge but I have not used it as much as some of other knives thus a quick strop on cardboard or leather touches it up.
I have seen many posts of people asking how to resharpen convex edges and many of the people that reply have sanding belts which obviously makes the job easier.
So can we have an honest answer here by someone that has really used and abused a convex ground knife and resharpened it and not from someone like me who has just cut a little string and paper !
Maybe this is the reason so many survival experts recommend Scandi grinds as opposed to convex grinds !
 
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