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What's your favorite grind style fellow forumites?

I think I have an idea of the most popular, but the Blade Shape Poll taught me not to assume too much :D

Feel free to explain why a particular grind is your favorite! :spyder:
Or if there is an "OTHER" Grind I left out, tell us about it!

Hard to imagine anything but full flat winning this one :)

I also love a good thin hollow grind.

Thin hollow grind, a scandi, a saber and generally no microbevel. Those grinds tend to work best out of the ones I've used heavily, but I have no problem with a FFG, as that's what most of my spydercos come in.

I suspect FFG will win out here

I haven't looked at results yet by I suspect full flat and hollow grind will be the most popular. We'll see.

Hello everyone, I'm a long time forum browser but never created an account. Just decided to create an account and put my 2 cents out there.
I must admit the FFG is the best overall functional grind but lacks character. I voted hollow grind because it works great and looks awesome. The best example is the Manix, 1st Gen hollow grind may have been a little heavier but I would say to a certain extent just as good as FFG and looked a lot better in my humble opinion. It would super awesome if we could get a CTS Maxamet variant with hollow grind and maybe the same swedge the native 5 has. Killer folding knife.

sharpspydie wrote:Hello everyone, I'm a long time forum browser but never created an account. Just decided to create an account and put my 2 cents out there.
I must admit the FFG is the best overall functional grind but lacks character. I voted hollow grind because it works great and looks awesome. The best example is the Manix, 1st Gen hollow grind may have been a little heavier but I would say to a certain extent just as good as FFG and looked a lot better in my humble opinion. It would super awesome if we could get a CTS Maxamet variant with hollow grind and maybe the same swedge the native 5 has. Killer folding knife.

Glad you joined in the conversation sharpspydie :D Welome! :spyder:
Hollow grinds do have a nice look to them, the Yojimbo 2 is my favorite.

I voted for FFG and hollow, along with microbevels. I agree that the hollow of the Yojimbo 2 is good looking, though I wish Sal and crew could do more high hollow grinds. Like the ones found on the Dragonfly Salts. I know this would probably require a serious retooling, but I think the performance gains would greatly close the gap between FFG amd the current hollow radius. This could likely only be achieved with a 36" or larger radius grinder/platten.

Saber, yeah right...someone lied

I also voted FFG and hollow, along with microbevels. My personal favorite is a full height hollow grind, done on a large wheel. It gives most of the slicing efficiency of a flat grind while retaining the benefits of a hollow grind. Something like this (with mandatory Spydie content included :spyder:):

Convex! As far as I'm aware, this isn't really represented in Spyderco's lineup, but I have a couple convex fixed blades, and they perform.

You don't have high flat grind on there.

High hollow grind for me. I’m sort of tired of everything looking like a kitchen knife. :eek: :o

FFG/Zero FFG, micro bevels depending on final edge thickness and steel.

I picked Saber Grind and Scandi Grind. On some I like a full flat grind, too, and also the apple seed grind.

I used to be afraid of hollow grinds because after reading knife and blade literature and using various knives I was afraid Hollow Grind = easily snappable weak blade. But David and others on here convinced me that a properly-made hollow grind if made with quality as Spyderco does can be a fine using knife, and, then I began to consider also that the Spyderco Pacific Salt officially says it has a hollow grind, so hollow grind is not all that bad, at least on quality knives with the proper steel.

Now a question about the grinds and strengths of them: If you were to take a Saber Grind, a Scandi Grind, and an Appleseed Grind (Convex Hamaguri), and you were to put all three to very hard outdoors use, such as survival type chores/bushcrafting, would you notice a serious and severe difference in that one would be superior in uses to the others, or would all three of those most likely function along similar lines as far as toughness and durability and cutting power goes?

Also, is it true that one can have a "Hollow Saber Grind" that combines the best of the hollow grind with the best of a saber grind, and which knife does Spyderco make that would be closest to this? The Pacific Salt?

SpyderEdgeForever wrote:I picked Saber Grind and Scandi Grind. On some I like a full flat grind, too, and also the apple seed grind.


Also, is it true that one can have a "Hollow Saber Grind" that combines the best of the hollow grind with the best of a saber grind, and which knife does Spyderco make that would be closest to this? The Pacific Salt?

I thought the Pacific was a strict saber grind? :confused:

It's a hollow sabre. Sabre Delicas are flat sabre.

Jazz wrote:It's a hollow sabre. Sabre Delicas are flat sabre.

I know the Emerson opener delicas and enduras are flat saber but my ss delica 4 is hollow saber.

From the standpoint of simple function and maintainability, I prefer FFG and micro-bevel, but I do have other grinds, owing to curiosity.

VashHash wrote:I know the Emerson opener delicas and enduras are flat saber but my ss delica 4 is hollow saber.

Forgot about that one. I sure wish all the sabres were higher up. They'd still be strong and actually cut something.

Evil D wrote:FFG/Zero FFG, micro bevels depending on final edge thickness and steel.

Same exact choices I made.