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Originally Posted by sns2
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Scandi grind is good for jobs where an edge is abused (like chopping etc) and you need to sharpen without a jig and use the bevel itself as a guide, but for primarily being a skinning/cutting knife it is definitely not a superior edge. I actually have a knife with chisel grind I like a lot and would do something like that if it needed to do double duty over a scandi grind.
For something exclusively for chopping like a machete I would go convex bevel for strength 100%.
That said, if I am making a knife for me personally, hollow grind would be my choice for something primarily used for slicing/skinning with flat grind being a close second.