OK! Not recurve, geometry looks pretty flat from hilt to where the tip starts to curve up to the point. I would just say that the knife isn't very sharp. I could try resharpening it or email Renee. Depends on how lucky I am finding info in how to sharpen a convex edge, or in this case, a slightly convex edge.
Domino Dan stated that the edge on the 511 is a V edge. He said that the 511's convex is very slight. So you could sharpen it up on traditional stones.
