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Jasonstone20,
the thing I don't particularly like about hollow grinds or partial grinds in general is that they generally cut very well (depending on geometry of course) only when the cuting depth doesn't exceed the tallness of the grind, that theorically limits their usefulness.
However, a blade that thin shouldn't bind all that much, I seriously doubt it would for example wedg
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My FRN Chaparral is 2 mm thick at the spine where the jimping starts and distal tapers to a very fine point, almost makes for a decent paring knife, last time I measured the thickness behind the edge it was about. 017 1mm or so up into the primary grind, pretty decent, nothing to write home about compared to for example an opinel, still the thinnest bte modern folder I have.
The only other small
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The XL Stretch looks rather awesome, I would have loved a thinner blade, ala Chaparral, but it doesn't seem that common
I also need to try other Byrd models, the one I recently got was surprisingly good
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Thanks jasonstone20!
In addition to this 12" I also have a couple of Spanish 8" bastard cut files and a 6" smooth finishing file (Bellota brand, very common here in Italy, good performance).
Also a small selection of needle and chainsaw files.
About the use, as you said they are very handy for tools like axes, sickles, billhooks etc, they work faster than even the coarsest stone
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I don't believe it's possible, because the blade was CA glued to a flat piece of steel, with only the edge exposed (very stable and quickly undone pouring some acetone on the joint). Sometimes a file stroke is not angled correctly and the teeth cannot cut cleanly, or the first couple of strokes slide on forging scale or dirt , but usually one can figure out how to make it work, adjustin
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Hello to all,
I've been a lurker on the old forum for a good while and I recently decided to join, thank you all.
I wanted to share with you my Stella Bianca bastard file, this model has a long cutting surface, very coarse teeth pattern, and according to the maker, is hardened to about 64 hrc.
I bought it after reading a topic on the old forum
http://www.cliffstamp.com/knives/forum/rea
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