Disclaimer: I have only one other experience with a regrind and it was a disaster, so my happiness with these knives is largely based on them not getting screwed up like the last knife was. There are a couple little details I would call "less than factory perfect" but it takes someone who knows what they're looking at to see and I got them done because they're users so I'm ok with them and won't even be pointing them out.
I didn't get to talk to him about how thin they are, and I didn't request anything specific other than not to thin the tips too much because I didn't want them too fragile (they're still too thin to go boring holes into things with). If you look close at the bevel on the Military you can see it's a little wider at the tip because of this but that's what I wanted. The Manix is ground a bit on the thicker side by default so the bevel is even all along the edge. It's very impressive that he reground these blades and was able to keep the factory spine thickness and was able to not grind off the bevel I had put on previously. That's some pretty precise grind work. I expected either him or me to have to set the bevel again but I can tell by the sharpening notches I put on these knives that they haven't lost any blade/steel from the regrind other than thinning them out.
My initial thought, of all things, was I'm kinda bummed that the bug logo is gone. On the other hand I also like the clean "sterile" blade other than the brand/steel script. I can definitely tell you these are sure to be the first of many that I send to Chris. These two knives in particular are very special to me so I took a huge leap of faith sending them out but I'm happy with the results.
