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Full flat is in first place with me.
Keep in mind my first REAL knife was a Buck 110 back in 1982. Hollow ground. From there I went to full flat and thinner and didn't look back.
Many of my Case knives including many, many Trappers are hollow grind.
I put up with it.
All you have to do is slice up an apple and you will see why I don't like hollow grind. Not only does the spine hang up once it gets that far into the cut (apple , cardboard, any thing with some depth) but then the hollow controls the cut direction. Don't believe me ? Just look at the slices they will be concave and convex. Just try to cut a flat slice through an apple with a hollow ground blade . . . I double dog dare you.
Of late I have been experimenting with a convexed blade I ground myself from a Cold Steel Ti Lite IV. I took the spine down to 1mm and the middle section is at about 2.5mm and I will take that down to about 2mm soon.
This should be even more controllable than a full flat grind. I full flat ground a Ti Lite to 1.9mm at the spine and LOVE IT !
Sure go thin behind the edge, real thin, but don't ask me to use a knife with that thick ridge at the spine. Pointless thing.
Well . . . it looks good for the magazine photos . . . other than that nah dude, nah.
Keep in mind my first REAL knife was a Buck 110 back in 1982. Hollow ground. From there I went to full flat and thinner and didn't look back.
Many of my Case knives including many, many Trappers are hollow grind.
I put up with it.
All you have to do is slice up an apple and you will see why I don't like hollow grind. Not only does the spine hang up once it gets that far into the cut (apple , cardboard, any thing with some depth) but then the hollow controls the cut direction. Don't believe me ? Just look at the slices they will be concave and convex. Just try to cut a flat slice through an apple with a hollow ground blade . . . I double dog dare you.
Of late I have been experimenting with a convexed blade I ground myself from a Cold Steel Ti Lite IV. I took the spine down to 1mm and the middle section is at about 2.5mm and I will take that down to about 2mm soon.
This should be even more controllable than a full flat grind. I full flat ground a Ti Lite to 1.9mm at the spine and LOVE IT !
Sure go thin behind the edge, real thin, but don't ask me to use a knife with that thick ridge at the spine. Pointless thing.
Well . . . it looks good for the magazine photos . . . other than that nah dude, nah.