airbornenuttsac
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I use a custom wakizashi for "I think I am Rambo kit" but of course the Leatherman wave for everything else.
I was in Wal-Mart a few weeks ago, buying another firestarter (the flint, steel, magnesium thingy) and they had a "tactical" folder for $1. Couldn't pass it up. Intending to put it through its paces soon; it'll be interesting to see how long it lasts...
bring a first aid kit and lots of blood stop, okay? You're really going to need it... Don't bring Bruno or the football star... they don't need to witness the self inflicted carnage that will be your hands....
I am often my own worst enemy. I once checked to see how sharp a knife was by running my thumb down the blade.
I also once plugged up the entrance to a ground wasp nest with my thumb to see what would happen. :wall:
I am often my own worst enemy. I once checked to see how sharp a knife was by running my thumb down the blade.
I also once plugged up the entrance to a ground wasp nest with my thumb to see what would happen. :wall:
I wish there was a "WTF?" button on here.... it would really come in handy for posts like this.
Have you ever stood in front of a moving vehicle to see if it hurts when it hits you?
(edited for a typo or crazy internetscomputermachinethingyglitchfromhell that threw in a word I didn't want )
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pardus
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I am often my own worst enemy. I once checked to see how sharp a knife was by running my thumb down the blade.
I also once plugged up the entrance to a ground wasp nest with my thumb to see what would happen. :wall:
The first time I ever got to hold a Chris Reeve knife I was warned by the saleswoman that it was very sharp. I scoffed at her that I've been around a knife of two in my day. I then proceeded to cut my thumb. I hid my hand behind my back and handed the knife back, I exited the store leaving a trail of blood lol :wall:
Thanks people.... this thread is reminding me its time to go on a knife sharpening spree around here... all the kitchen knives and my collection... should take at least a few hours.
I wish there was a "WTF?" button on here.... it would really come in handy for posts like this.
Have you ever stood in front of a moving vehicle to see if it hurts when it hits you?
(edited for a typo or crazy internetscomputermachinethingyglitchfromhell that threw in a word I didn't want )
You want me to say "yes", don't you... :-"
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The Troll said:
My experience with pattern-welded (Damascus) is pretty limited, so I'll stick to what I know. Great user knives can be made from pattern-welded steels. In deciding which knives to buy, there are two main things you want to do. One is to make sure the knife you buy is composed of two steels that are both high-carbon, knife-grade tool steels. (Many cheapo Damascus knives are not.) The second is to select a blade made of two steels which have similar heat treating requirements, or else you'll end up owning a knife that has many tiny soft spots in the blade.
I hardly ever use pattern-welded steel in knives.
I'm not allowed a knife until I stop losing them...and cutting myself them on accident. I had a Kershaw Leek for YEARS until I accidentally left it in Alaska. I need to get another one soon.
Ken Onion did a great job designing that little folder.... too bad he went nuts with the edge geometry/design... that S curve is a PITA to sharpen properly.
which raises a good point - don't buy a knife that you can't sharpen well and easily - unless it's a safe queen, if it's unusable, it's unusable...
Her leek actually didn't have an S-curve, it was a straight flat edge terminating in a very tiny but exceedingly effective at "picking at shit" needle-esque point. She took one look at the crazy curve and said NOPE, and I would have veto'ed the purchase if she had liked it.
Not all of them, but hers was. It's a very specific kind of edge, and for the duties that she had in mind and as an augment for a multitool, it was a good little knife.
This was what mine looked like. The Scallion and Shallot have a bit of an s-curve blade and I avoided them for that reason.
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Have one just like That. My Kim would watch as I would buy a new knife. Then she would tell me to not cut myself...I promptly cut myself and like Pardus would do, hide my hand but the look of pain on my face gave me away.....
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That's the Centofante, isn't it? the Wharncliffe style, I mean.... let me check my collection... yup, sho 'nuff.... I think the Leek is the drop point... the Scallion is the slightly 's' curved... the Chive is the really 's' curved one....
But to break that rule.... I want to get the 'Wicked Edge' system... the Spartan guys sweat by it for final edging - but warn that it can take off a lot of steel.
Mr. Onion and Kershaw are no longer seeing eye t oeye, and Kershaw may not be much longer for some of the designs Ken did for them... so.... keep your Kershaw Onions...
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Yeah looks like they're calling it a "modified drop-point" and I guess, by technicality, it is.
Wicked Edge huh? I've heard many speak well of it, but if the Spartan gents swear by it, well.......that's a hell of an endorsement. I bought one of those "Worksharp" sharpeners about 6 months ago, to use as an intermediate step between the 2"x72" and the stones, when edging customers' knives. It's...... useable, but I wouldn't reccomend it. It WILL eat the point off of a knife. I may or may not have said unkind things about its mother.
I've had t ore-tip a couple of knives for members here.. cough cough Crip and Sasquatch cough cough.... the true gift in that is the EZLap and the Norton stones The Harsey required me to get... with the EZLap, you can reshape and cut the new secondary bevel without worrying about de-tempering the blade by over heating on a grinder, and the Norton stones take out the diamond cuts from the EZLap... finish with a Japanese water stone, and polish with ceramic... the only difference in the knife should be the length of the blade because it was broken off using it fro a friggin screwdriver or prybar...
BFKs can be used for prybars, but don't use the tip, the wide part of the blade people.
Mark can make all their knives perfect with the Wicked Edge... but it will set you back about $400 with all the bells whistles and gizmos... basic is about $250
pardus
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What stones do you use?
