Hey TW! Let's see your knives!

It works for almost everything, and I love it now that I took that last 2mm of the end. I have another kershaw, the chive just like this one

 

Not sure why everybody buys the Kershaw Leek. So many stories of the tips breaking cause they are so thin.

I have a Cryo 2 (pictured below), and that thing is stout.

 

I get kershaw, spyderco, and benchmade at half off and still buy Boker. I love them. I have 2 opinels including the tiny one thats smaller than my pinky finger.

 

Took my crappy kershaw cyro tanto and made it into a drop point, God that thing was hideous before!!! Had to hollow out the grind and then start putting the bevel back on. Im still in the process or putting a good edge on it, the tip has some issues and still needs to be reworked but i got this thing dirt cheap and was about to just throw it away, now it will be a good beater knife



before

 

Damn that's nice. I took my CRKT kiss and cut it to make a pry/oyster knife

 

pictures!!! this was my first regrind of a blade, i just couldn't fathom sharpening the cyro tanto and it looked like batman should be carrying the damn thing!!!

 

It ain't pretty but it's functional as hell

 

Finish the tip by hand if you're using power tools to shape your blade and grind, which I assume is the case. You'll likely burn the tip right off of the blade, or you'll destroy it by overheating it.

Did you mean to say you hollowed the grind? I don't know what the original grind was but it doesn't look like you made a hollow grind, so I'm guessing you meant to say you feathered the edge back and thinned the grind. If it is hollow ground to begin with and not a chisel grind or saber grind, you'll have major problems with that edge breaking now.

What are you using to do the work? Are you making sure to keep the blade steel cool to the touch when you're doing your material removal?

 

I dipped mine in room temp water literally every second

 

I re profiled the tanto into this shape on a belt sander then laid back my home made sharpening system similar to the edge pro system to around 10deg using DMT stones,and put the first bevel on it to thin out the section where the tip bevel met the main bevel, that's the only way it would get sharp the entire length of the blade. So everything but the re profile was done by hand, didn't heat up at all and has a decent mirror polish on the main bevel now, around 44deg inclusive. I also put a micro bevel on it with my spyderco UF ceramic

 

Cool. Any black spots on the blade at all? Near the tip especially? I can see you probably burned it off. I did the same thing before, so don't hear that as a jab.

From the picture it looks like your edge is pretty unevenly ground. I could be wrong, just guessing. My eyes have tricked me before.

Good job, also. It's nice to experiment with cheaper knives and not worry too badly about screwing up.

 

I'm thinking of flattening the tip of mine right now. any ideas while I'm grinding it down?

 

Nope, no black at all. The only uneven part it out just behind the tip which is where I originally stated needs more work, I'll tinker with it some more but that's all this was, to see if I could pull it off, I have some other ones that are much sharper and better to look at than the heavy, ugly kershaw cyro. It was supposed to be the drop point hinderer non black wash from theclymb.com but this is what they shipped (twice) so I'm making the best of the cheap purchase

Thanks for the feedback and tips James!! No offense taken, no jabs that I saw

 

i don't have a fancy sharpener but would it be a bad idea if i take the micro bevel off my kiss? this knife is my first try and reshaping. I'm not really afraid to fuck it up lol

 

You could always put the micro bevel back on. What are you using for sharpening?

 

i was using some type of hand sharpener that consisted of two wheels and you place the knife into the area where the two wheels meet and slide it across but this knife is only left hand grind and i left the sharpener at my dads. but i have a sharpening stick which i know isn't meant for sharpening and I've been using a fine hand file

 

Whatcha mean?

 

Uh, then I wouldn't suggest trying to put a micro bevel back on. Lol

Get some crock sticks or look at the DMT credit card stones for putting on the main scratch pattern then finish off with the crock sticks for a cheap kit

 

I'm making that more flat on the tip. I don't like that it's slightly rounded

 

Phoenix you don't need any mechanical sharpeners to remove a microbevel. All you need is a fine stone or file, and some time to sit and get it knocked out. The metal in that knife isn't particularly hard or difficult so it wouldn't take long.

If you don't have either handy, go buy some sand paper sheets at the hardware store for $1 a piece or whatever and knock it out that way. Sandpaper is king IMO.