MacTech
01-03-2007, 10:52 AM
One of my co-workers brought in a couple knives for me to put an edge back on, i was expecting some CCC junk.....
So i was more than a little surprised when he brought in an old two-dot Buck 110 with about 1/8" of the tip broken off and blackened where it looked like he tried sharpening it on a grinder...
"naah, i held it in a flame, i was being stupid"
yes, you were, that one's likely not worth fixing as the temper's probably blown on the tip
then he handed me a knife that he found on the side of the road over the summer, it looked relarkably like a Spyderco, black FRN handle, humped blade, i was expecting a cheap knockoff, until i saw the Spyderco logo and Delica nameplate stamped in the FRN
it was a real Spydie, a D3 without the clip (i'll have to check my spare parts at home to see if i have a spare D3 clip)
it was in better shape than the Buck, but still had the very tip broken off, a common issue on the pre Gen-4 Delicas/Enduras, i'd say it lost about 1/16" of the tip, had a tiny amount of side-to-side play, and a tiny amount of vertical play, i cleaned up the lockwell and the vertical play went away, side to side isn't enough to worry about
it's a SpyderEdge model, the very tip was badly rolled and quite dull, as was the first serration, but the rest of the SpyderEdge was still factory-sharp
the first thing i had to do was reprofile the tip, i grabbed a medium benchstone and began scraping away the spine of the knife, bringing it down to the remaining tip, i asked Bo whether he wanted the original Delica3 "Splinter-picker", or if he wanted the newer D4 style stronger but less-pointy tip, he chose the stronger tip option
so, about 20-25 minutes later, the tip had been reground to a more Delica4 style tip, actually a pretty darned good emulation if i do say so myself, and not bad for my first tip regrind attempt, it took less time and effort than i thought as well
i put a decent working edge back on the tip of the blade, and then proceeded to touch up the first serration scallop (mmmmm.....scallops.....) on the unglazed bottom ring of my coffee cup (thanks for that hint, Sal ;) )
it's not as sharp as i'd like it to be, so i'll bring the Sharpmaker in tomorrow and give it a good, solid reworking and resharpen job to bring it back to Scary Sharp (I let him try out my Kiwi to see what a Scary Sharp edge was like, he was quite impressed, to say the least)
all in all, not bad for my first restoration job, admittedly, the knife wasn't too bad off in the first place, but i was expecting VG-10 to be a lot more difficult to rework than it was....
I also warned Bo about the addictive properties of Spydies, once he gets his Delica back to Scary Sharp, he'll probably end up addicted
So i was more than a little surprised when he brought in an old two-dot Buck 110 with about 1/8" of the tip broken off and blackened where it looked like he tried sharpening it on a grinder...
"naah, i held it in a flame, i was being stupid"
yes, you were, that one's likely not worth fixing as the temper's probably blown on the tip
then he handed me a knife that he found on the side of the road over the summer, it looked relarkably like a Spyderco, black FRN handle, humped blade, i was expecting a cheap knockoff, until i saw the Spyderco logo and Delica nameplate stamped in the FRN
it was a real Spydie, a D3 without the clip (i'll have to check my spare parts at home to see if i have a spare D3 clip)
it was in better shape than the Buck, but still had the very tip broken off, a common issue on the pre Gen-4 Delicas/Enduras, i'd say it lost about 1/16" of the tip, had a tiny amount of side-to-side play, and a tiny amount of vertical play, i cleaned up the lockwell and the vertical play went away, side to side isn't enough to worry about
it's a SpyderEdge model, the very tip was badly rolled and quite dull, as was the first serration, but the rest of the SpyderEdge was still factory-sharp
the first thing i had to do was reprofile the tip, i grabbed a medium benchstone and began scraping away the spine of the knife, bringing it down to the remaining tip, i asked Bo whether he wanted the original Delica3 "Splinter-picker", or if he wanted the newer D4 style stronger but less-pointy tip, he chose the stronger tip option
so, about 20-25 minutes later, the tip had been reground to a more Delica4 style tip, actually a pretty darned good emulation if i do say so myself, and not bad for my first tip regrind attempt, it took less time and effort than i thought as well
i put a decent working edge back on the tip of the blade, and then proceeded to touch up the first serration scallop (mmmmm.....scallops.....) on the unglazed bottom ring of my coffee cup (thanks for that hint, Sal ;) )
it's not as sharp as i'd like it to be, so i'll bring the Sharpmaker in tomorrow and give it a good, solid reworking and resharpen job to bring it back to Scary Sharp (I let him try out my Kiwi to see what a Scary Sharp edge was like, he was quite impressed, to say the least)
all in all, not bad for my first restoration job, admittedly, the knife wasn't too bad off in the first place, but i was expecting VG-10 to be a lot more difficult to rework than it was....
I also warned Bo about the addictive properties of Spydies, once he gets his Delica back to Scary Sharp, he'll probably end up addicted