Production knives with a chisel grind (other than Emerson)

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I've been carrying my CQC7B for the last couple of weeks and have actually been enjoying using and sharpening the chisel ground edge. Very easy to maintain and I've found the tanto tip a lot more useful than I have on other tantos.

Now I have a DDC which is chisel ground and I remember the old BM Strykers could be had with a chisel grind (but they are kinda hard to find now) but I was wondering what other current production knives feature the chisel grind?
 
I'm waiting on my cqc-7 to arrive but in the meantime I've been mucking around with a "Kemerson".

A Kershaw Emerson CQC-8K. Ok, it's still "Emerson" kinda so I don't know if it fits your criteria. But it's cheap, and production. You may want to look at it, too, so I'm tossing it up here :D

I suspect it will be very like a cqc-7 but I won't really know till the real deal arrives. I actually found it fine, for the price, I was/remain very pleased.

I'm not kidding myself here, though. These knives are bought just for more tip strength and for tacticoolness. I accept that! In my day job, a RAT or PM2 just does the job better. :D
 
I have a Microtech Whale Shark with a chisel grind. Haven't had to sharpen it yet, but it's weird getting used to the blade fighting me when doing push cuts.
 
Going slightly off topic here, but what do you guys find particularly useful about chisel ground EDC blades, particularly Emerson's variety? I've never had the slightest interest because I don't see the utility, particularly given that I'm a righty and Emerson grinds the edge on the "wrong" side...
 
palonej said:
I have a Microtech Whale Shark with a chisel grind. Haven't had to sharpen it yet, but it's weird getting used to the blade fighting me when doing push cuts.
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This is my experience with chisel ground knives. They cut fine most of the time but then you hit that one task and it's all "why the hell can't I cut straight all of a sudden" until you adjust and work against it. I'll take a normal edge any day, personally.
 
If you look at some vintage traditionals, there is one called The Ideal which offered chisel ground blades and they are dirt cheap. I've been using a Barlow of theirs with the handles removed so it's only 0.235" thick ;) I've taken it to work for about 3 weeks now just to give it a fair shake trying the chisel grind. I still don't like it, but I have gotten used to it. I may end up reprofiling the grind tho...
 
mbp said:
Going slightly off topic here, but what do you guys find particularly useful about chisel ground EDC blades, particularly Emerson's variety? I've never had the slightest interest because I don't see the utility, particularly given that I'm a righty and Emerson grinds the edge on the "wrong" side...
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I wouldn't say they are any more useful than a regular grind, as previously mentioned arguably less so due to the tendency to cut with a curved trajectory.

To be honest I've just been enjoying carrying something different. Variety is the spice of life as the kids say. There doesn't seen to be many productions out there using the grind other than Emerson.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

matt
 
Not production - but this little fixed blade by Daniel Fairly is a chisel grind
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Daiwa brand, Japan market oriented with their cutlery.

Bali-like. Supposed to leave a clean cut when you hack off a fish head with flat side of blade oriented to tail end of fish.

Color renditioning of 2nd pic is off. Top knife handle = black, bottom = green.

I have examples enroute.
 
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Honestly if you twist your wrist a little bit when cutting with a chisel ground knife it is not that hard to get it to cut fairly straight. Obviously a more conventional grind will be better but Emersons are not made for making surgical cuts anyway.
 
All I make is chisel grind. Every knife I make sells and I'm always juggling 2-4 projects any given time.
 
spykez said:
I'm waiting on my cqc-7 to arrive but in the meantime I've been mucking around with a "Kemerson".

A Kershaw Emerson CQC-8K. Ok, it's still "Emerson" kinda so I don't know if it fits your criteria. But it's cheap, and production. You may want to look at it, too, so I'm tossing it up here
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I have a early production cqc-4k and its not chisel, are some?!
 
off the top of my head.....benchmade pagan and crkt m16-14 are chisel sort of...or edge one one side. i dont mind them myself.
 
Cereal_killer said:
I have a early production cqc-4k and its not chisel, are some?!
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Some of the Emerson Kershaws are in fact chisel ground. For example the CQC8k is a chisel ground knife which is overall very similar to the Emerson CQC7 tanto.

However most Emerson Kershaws are v ground.
 
I believe all of Cold Steel's fully serrated folders are chisel ground .
 
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