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Mods, Regrinds, Cerakote, and Sharpening
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Man... mirrored edges are popular! Not my favorite to do but they do look beautiful! All of these are at 15 dps.
Glad you like it bud!!
Glad you like it bud!!
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What knife is that?
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If any of y'all are considering having your GB thinned behind the edge, do it. I put mine to work on a sweetgum (admittedly, not the hardest of woods) that fell in yesterday's thunderstorm. It performed quite well despite my worries about the edge.
A couple of things I discovered:
1. Even the thinned-out GB is tough-as-nails. With a cut-'n-twist to pop chunks of the 1.5" main branch, the blade just laughed.
2. The thinned-out GB is a scary slicer. It was push-cutting through everything up to 1/2". One clean slice with minimal effort. Granted, live sweetgum isn't the hardest of woods, but still. One push cut.
3. CPM-M4 is still my favorite steel. After processing the branch (trimming off all the twigs/little branches and chopping up the main branch), all it took was a few swipes on the strop to get the steel back to hair-popping sharp. Narry a chip, roll, or bend anywhere on the edge.
4. Cerakote is tough, too. Cleaned up nice without any scratching or marring of any kind.
Props to Josh's work!
So yeah. Maybe not the hardest use, but the hardest that this particular GB of mine has seen since its modifications.
A couple of things I discovered:
1. Even the thinned-out GB is tough-as-nails. With a cut-'n-twist to pop chunks of the 1.5" main branch, the blade just laughed.
2. The thinned-out GB is a scary slicer. It was push-cutting through everything up to 1/2". One clean slice with minimal effort. Granted, live sweetgum isn't the hardest of woods, but still. One push cut.
3. CPM-M4 is still my favorite steel. After processing the branch (trimming off all the twigs/little branches and chopping up the main branch), all it took was a few swipes on the strop to get the steel back to hair-popping sharp. Narry a chip, roll, or bend anywhere on the edge.
4. Cerakote is tough, too. Cleaned up nice without any scratching or marring of any kind.
Props to Josh's work!
So yeah. Maybe not the hardest use, but the hardest that this particular GB of mine has seen since its modifications.
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Nice to see it's holding up well Jed! thanks for the photos and feedback... it truly is an amazing knife and steel combo. No wonder the GB is so popular!
A year or two ago I took my thinned (not sure how thick at this point, maybe .010-.015" thick) GB and tried to push cut through 17 ga steel wire to see what would happen... the left one is where I tried a slow push cut, the right dent is where I placed the edge on top of the wire which was on a board, and then smacked the spine - you can see the difference. That dent held up amazingly well. So if you ever cut something like wire do it this way! Note: I do not recommend cutting wire or twisting the blade in hard wood after it has been reground as that is not how it has been ground to perform, but I am glad it performed so well on the sweetgum bud =)
A year or two ago I took my thinned (not sure how thick at this point, maybe .010-.015" thick) GB and tried to push cut through 17 ga steel wire to see what would happen... the left one is where I tried a slow push cut, the right dent is where I placed the edge on top of the wire which was on a board, and then smacked the spine - you can see the difference. That dent held up amazingly well. So if you ever cut something like wire do it this way! Note: I do not recommend cutting wire or twisting the blade in hard wood after it has been reground as that is not how it has been ground to perform, but I am glad it performed so well on the sweetgum bud =)
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Sweet I'll shoot you a quick note when I get it :thumbup:
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Well these will be fun!! lol. They are Christmas Tree shearing blades for those of you wondering.
Update: All finished up! Here's an after shot...
Update: All finished up! Here's an after shot...
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Hinderer slicer regrind... edge is ground to about .005" at 15 dps
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I worn out 2 shoulders on those blades as a teenager making car money !!
they will cut your leg OFF !!
they will cut your leg OFF !!
Well these will be fun!! lol. They are Christmas Tree shearing blades for those of you wondering.
Update: All finished up! Here's an after shot...
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Replied and looking forward to it
lol I hope you don't know that by personal experience!
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PM sent, looking forward to your thoughts on turning a Spyderco Vallotton into a useful object for actually cutting things 
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PM sent, looking forward to your thoughts on turning a Spyderco Vallotton into a useful object for actually cutting things
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Had a customer who wanted me to match the tip mod on his zt (the one on the left) so I did the black one. Just sharpened the other hehe
Had a customer who wanted me to match the tip mod on his zt (the one on the left) so I did the black one. Just sharpened the other hehe
Very nice! I believe I had a hand in sending him your way, either on this forum or another. Maybe even instagram haha. You're the man!
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You sure did bro! On Instagram... Thanks 😀
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I saw you sold a blur earlier, but the pics were removed from the thread. Have any of how that knife looked?
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Hey Jeff! Sure, here is a before and some after. I have modded 2 different blurs into two different blade shapes recently, so here are both of them you can check out (both removed the recurve):
first blade shape:
second option:
