Thread: Any idea why this went for so little?

You guys are way ahead of me here, but I gather I did well not to bid on it.

The TI '69 medaille arg' I have has no double-stabilizer and is almost a true wedge. If you look down the barrel of it so to speak it's virtually a triangle, with just a little faint sloping on the sides. Maybe it too had been honed up into the belly(?)

No, you would have still seen the double stabilizer on it if that had been the case.

I think you did very well to pass on this one - not that it's unusable, but still

Thanks guys, I've learned a lot on this thread about how to figure out a grind with only pictures in profile to go by...descriptions on ebay often don't specify the grind, and then in cases like this one they do specify and get it wrong.

John Crowley quips somewhere about SRP's "funky" rating system where you ask a hundred dumb questions and get awarded the title of "honemeister." That was well said, and I notice it just happened to yours truly.

Didn't you notice that quantum leap in your honing skills when you passed 100? It's like an RPG, pass 100 posts and get the spell of wonderedge.

The ranking system is unnecessarily confusing. The honemeister designation is handed out far too easily, especially newbies are often admonished to "get a honemeister-honed blade". Unfortunately, the ranking obscures who those honemeisters really are - it ain't me, despite my post count.

There was an interminable thread last week on this topic, however, so I'll leave it at that. But honemeister is a really lousy rank for high post counts.

ah, that explains it. I was just wondering how the hell I could get that title when I'm a fumbling newbie.

On another note. I have a G. Butler that's very stiff and heavy but is still a biconcave grind. That must have taken some serious precision.