I did try the Katz Alleycat, because the recurve seemed very slight. I the end, even that proved unsharpenable, and I got rid of it.
I find that the only proper way to sharpen any knife is using a flat Dia-Sharp hone, and its flat surface had great trouble getting in there at the back of the Katz, even using just the corners in tricky ways... A rod sharpener is drastically inferior in my view, and gives no "shadow" reference for maintaining a correct angle. I consider such edges a functional mistake.
I often thought about getting the SOG Fatcat, but in the end I knew what would eventually happen: I would get dissatisfied with the rear edge, and would get rid of it... For a similar size folder I opted instead for the old, very heavy and clumsy Al Mar SERE 3003. Quite beautiful in its own right.
Not sure I absolutely love or hate recurves, but do have a few mild ones. I have not had any problem sharpening them. Just a different learning "curve". [emoji12]
Doh! Forgot my BK4 and a few others.
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A few recurves I made a long time ago. I took quite a break from knife making. The real big one in brass and blue was the one that had other people wanting a recurve for themselves. The big one was a leaf spring. the others were mainly really large files.
That photo bucket third party hosting thing is really messing with a lot of these people posting on here. I had all of mine blocked and I didn't really have many on there.
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