Then and Now
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 12:37 am
I thought a fun idea for a photo thread would be posting pictures of the same knife after it's gone through some use / modification / sharpenings etc.
Here is my EDC. The knife I pocket every day. Half a year ago I was running an ultrafine polished edge and had swapped the blade to a Spyderhawk handle. Today it's back in the original black handle, and is sporting the lowest grit edge achievable with just a Sharpmaker.
Then:
Now:
One thing that I find interesting about the last two pictures is how consistent the scratch pattern is between the serrations. A lot of folks seem to think that by doing one pass across the entire edge just like a PE knife won't hit the full serration. When I sharpened this knife I used simple edge leading strokes from heel to tip on my sharpmaker. Looking at the scratch pattern you can clearly see the "jumps" between individual serrations is not nearly as pronounced as most would have you believe.
Here is my EDC. The knife I pocket every day. Half a year ago I was running an ultrafine polished edge and had swapped the blade to a Spyderhawk handle. Today it's back in the original black handle, and is sporting the lowest grit edge achievable with just a Sharpmaker.
Then:
Now:
One thing that I find interesting about the last two pictures is how consistent the scratch pattern is between the serrations. A lot of folks seem to think that by doing one pass across the entire edge just like a PE knife won't hit the full serration. When I sharpened this knife I used simple edge leading strokes from heel to tip on my sharpmaker. Looking at the scratch pattern you can clearly see the "jumps" between individual serrations is not nearly as pronounced as most would have you believe.
