Adding a sharpening choil

[troy fairweather]

I've got a crkt kommer free range with gut hook 2042,and it's a bit of a pain to sharpen the first 1/4" or so. I want to ask what you think about me adding a choil to help out, I've used this knife pretty heavily and sharpened it a bunch. To the point where the edge is getting uneven the first 1/4".

I'll be doing some other work one day on the knife since the tip of the gut hook has broken off, so I'll probably make like a drop point of something like that. I've already modified the knife some, it has a hollow grind but it stopped way before the edge and it didn't seem to cut and was hard to slice. So I worked both sides on a stone to thin it down and it more like a straight grind now. Seems to worked well.

 

[Bazoo]

I say go for it. I added one to my schrade 143ot, but just decorative. I didn't get into the edge, if I ever sharpen it enough to see it needs it I can move it into the edge easy enough.

 

[Bazoo]

 

[troy fairweather]

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Ya I was thinking a little deeper cut them that old timer, may work to spark fire steel as well.

 

[Bazoo]

I wanted deeper too, but I did it that way because it looked right. It looks factory. Not too close to the stamping.