Spyderco ceramic fixed blade

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Different application but I have been impressed with any ceramic cooking knives. They start very sharp but are a PITA once they dull a bit. But I’d like to see what you make with it.,,
 
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Different application but I have been impressed with any ceramic cooking knives. They start very sharp but are a PITA once they dull a bit. But I’d like to see what you make with it.,,
I returned them! I bought 4 and none were apexed. I tried sharpening with my bench grinder attachment thingy for the work sharp and I was moving material but couldn't get anything close to sharp.

So I returned 3 and sold the one I tried with on Facebook with a disclosure.

They looked cool, but I think you'd need to buy diamond belts to bevel into an apex or Spyderco would need to do a better job up front so one can maintain with a diamond stone.
 
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Bummer. Thanks for the update.
Danny at RMSgear told me they could sharpen it and apparently have a lot of equipment from when they sharpen for Boker. If od have known that I'd have kept them.

My understanding is that Spyderco will have another release in a few weeks. They ran behind on "sharpening" but wanted to keep the release date they had publicized and sold what they had finished.
 

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I returned them! I bought 4 and none were apexed. I tried sharpening with my bench grinder attachment thingy for the work sharp and I was moving material but couldn't get anything close to sharp.

So I returned 3 and sold the one I tried with on Facebook with a disclosure.

They looked cool, but I think you'd need to buy diamond belts to bevel into an apex or Spyderco would need to do a better job up front so one can maintain with a diamond stone.
Did you use the belts that are specifically made for ceramic? I tried using the regular belts on a ceramic kitchen knife and there was stuff coming off but the blade never got sharp. I found that work sharp makes some special belts for ceramic knives and tried those out. They worked amazingly well and my kitchen knife is back to being razor sharp
 
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Did you use the belts that are specifically made for ceramic? I tried using the regular belts on a ceramic kitchen knife and there was stuff coming off but the blade never got sharp. I found that work sharp makes some special belts for ceramic knives and tried those out. They worked amazingly well and my kitchen knife is back to being razor sharp
I did not use diamond belts. 99% of the knives I "make" are not for me, and half of those are for charity auctions. I didn't want to buy special belts, and I didn't want someone to end up with something I made that is unusable without them buying special stuff.

If I didn't know there would be another release, I may not have returned them. For $150 each, I figured if d let some of the other Spyderco fans figure out what works and give their feedback in the meantime.
 
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