Gayle Bradley 2 - So close to perfection...

[abbazaba]

**** yes sir. Great post! :spyder:

[Termite Toothpick]

Canazes9,

Great post, topic and info...thanks for the follow-up and pics.

Just for my clarification and understanding: Though the Leaf Storm may be an extreme example of the choil, is that what you would do to make the blade more aesthetically pleasing and able to rid the recurve?

I have had my eye on this blade for a while and every post about it has pushed me closer; but yours may be the last straw.

Thanks for all your observations!

[Canazes9]

Canazes9,


Just for my clarification and understanding: Though the Leaf Storm may be an extreme example of the choil, is that what you would do to make the blade more aesthetically pleasing and able to rid the recurve?

Yes, if I bother with it at all.

David

[anagarika]

FWIW,

The Cold Steel Tuff Lite is perfect example of having both finger choil and sharpening choil.

The GB2 has neither.

What it has is a dropped heel that supposedly easier to sharpen fully into the end of the edge. What the maker failed to do is to either remove more metal so the heel starts at the end or after the end of the curved plunge line, or push back the plunge line.

This problem is exactly what my BM HK14715 has, and forcing it to be sharp all the way (so not to have recurve) result in similar sharpening mark David showed on his onligatory pic, a grind mark climbing up onto the plunge curvature. This problem is absent from Sanrenmu 710 where the end of plunge line curvature is before the heel, so the heel has same thickness as the rest of the blade edge (or more precisely, same BET).

[Canazes9]

FWIW,

The Cold Steel Tuff Lite is perfect example of having both finger choil and sharpening choil.

The GB2 has neither.

What it has is a dropped heel that supposedly easier to sharpen fully into the end of the edge. What the maker failed to do is to either remove more metal so the heel starts at the end or after the end of the curved plunge line, or push back the plunge line.

This problem is exactly what my BM HK14715 has, and forcing it to be sharp all the way (so not to have recurve) result in similar sharpening mark David showed on his onligatory pic, a grind mark climbing up onto the plunge curvature. This problem is absent from Sanrenmu 710 where the end of plunge line curvature is before the heel, so the heel has same thickness as the rest of the blade edge (or more precisely, same BET).

Thanks for playing, but I'm sorry wrong answer!

That's a choil.

Can't escape it, it's a choil.




David

[anagarika]

It seems to be if you look at it that way. It’s probably one of the gray area of the choil debate. If that’s a choil, my Sanrenmu 710 also has choil

Anyway, I think the finished edge bevel is not on par with GB1, and it requires CQI.

[Canazes9]

Anyway, I think the finished edge bevel is not on par with GB1, and it requires CQI.

We're in agreement here.

David