After seeing some of Josh's work on here and getting a Spyderco Farid K2 I decided it was time to take the plunge I sent a couple blades (Spyderco Farid K2 and Benchmade 710 in M390) to Josh for some regrind and sharpening love.
Here are the admittedly poor photos. I will try for better ones later. Meanwhile see what he did at my request:
20160111_190756 by
rapt_up, on Flickr
The trailing point was what kept me from the K2 initially although Ankerson's review finally swayed me. The tip would get caught on things I didn't want to cut a lot when using it. So I asked Josh to drop point it and while we were at it, to thin the blade to improve its already impressive cutting. He took it too about .010" at the shoulders with a 13dps grind and a 17dps micro bevel. This knife is sharp, so sharp that when trying to whittle hair it just severed it completely. (This is his regular 1000 grit edge, nothing fancy ., no polish etc...)
The 710 is a special knife, in size and feel, it just seemed too "thick" so I asked josh to thin and give it some distal taper, taking down to around .007" at the shoulder with 15dps. This one with the thin blade makes an awesome slicer... I can slice hairs guiding the cut as it splits the hair, this also just has his regular 1000 grit edge on it.. This will soon have a pair of Keyman holey scales in ivory snake Juma.
20160111_190916 by
rapt_up, on Flickr
You can see how thin the bevel is in this shot
20160111_191006 by
rapt_up, on Flickr
Of course both get the regrind logo.
I am so pleased with these. And being as both tested very hard for their production ranges they should hold edges and cut for a long long time.
Josh they are awesome !!! Thank you again!
Here are some more photos of the 710 in its final form
20160229_203530 by
rapt_up, on Flickr
20160229_203453 by
rapt_up, on Flickr
