Hey TW! Let's see your knives!

what angle do yall that have benchmades sharpen at? found on a blade forum that it was 30* but that was too much of an angle it turns out.

 

Everything looks perfect on the ones I've handled. Sharp as a mother fucker on some

 

Sure, they all look great.

Then you use them and the edge is trash because they grind them too thin - you send it in for warranty and it comes back just as thin AND overheated and burnt because they don't have enough material there to heat.

Barkies with a user grind are great, but Bark River sucks at grinding.

 

I won't dis another maker (especially being a Michigander myself), but to my understanding they grind their knife bevels post heat treat / temper. This can spell disaster at the thinner sections of a knife (where a proper heat treat and temper matter most), as heat tends to build up super fast in the thinner sections of the blade first. You temper a lot of steels in the 300 to 600 degree range. The edge of a blade will reach these temps in a New York minute on a belt grinder and go well beyond this if you aren't careful. There are arguments on both sides as to the potential side effects of rough grinding post-heat treat / temper, but I come from an engineering background and to me, eliminating variables is the only means of creating consistent and repeatable results.

 

Yikes! That would explain it. I didn't know they rough grind post heat treatment. Seems like a silly way to spend time (money).

That said, that explains half the story - they still can't finish grind a chipped edge on a warranty return without overheating the new edge all over again. Lack of training, or lack of care on their end.

 

Also 1095 FTMFW.

 

New season of Forged in Fire starts tonight if anyone is interested

 

https://youtu.be/6hMdLrQgHq4

Link to a video someone did on some of my uncle's custom knives. He has two in in production with benchmade that I have and they are getting ready to release a third. Have two custom hunting knives that I made with him. Does some awesome stuff.

 

Switched my PM2 to Tip Up carry. Much better but still a little on the big side for my carry needs.

 

Did mine yesterday lol

 

You left handed by chance? I use the clip as leverage to flip the blade open using the hole.

 

Nope right handed. I slide the knife out from the outside of my pocket so my thumb is already on the thumb opening

 

Ahhhh. Cool. Badass knife huh? I carry it for fun. But use my mini grip and Sage 2 for EDC.

 

I carry it daily and a CRKT squid in the back pocket. I love it and use it for everything. I just used it to cut an avocado with dinner lol

 

I switch between the squid and the Böker tech tool pretty often

 

My daily goto.

 

Batman lost his knife

 

Not really knife related but I think this type of stuff goes hand in hand. Just got this Titanium bottle opener/multi tool from eoscases.com I got the Unheat-treated version cuz I wanted to try and do it myself.

 

I heat anodized a titanium bottle opener from @Paint pig, came out pretty cool.

 

I got a little color into mine but looks like I'm gonna have to go get a real torch lol