Posted: 9/10/2006 4:31:05 PM EDT
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I'm anal when it comes to my knives. I have a few of various designs. I have a couple fixed blade Bucks, a Vanguard and a Big Sky. Use them for hunting. I keep them literally sharp as a razor. I can start with one against my shin and with one stroke shave right to my knee and 5the area will be baby smooth. The rest of my knives they same. I use a diamond stone from Cabelas(fine grit) and follow with an old leather belt treated with red jewelers rouge. I have been doing my arrowhead blades today. My arms and legs are about bald, lol! |
| I don't do the leather with jewelers rouge part, the Smith's diamond sharpener (fine) puts a real nice edge on my knives, good enough for me. After the knife has been sharpened and cleaned, have you tried using snake oil to protect and lube the blade? Works well for me, lasts a long time and no messy residue like you would get with traditional oils. |
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Yes I'm OCD and have several(actually more)hundred. I clean and dry any of the 40 or so I keep in the kitchen after each use. I use my finest crock sticks to keep them there. Keep a few ceramics too. I have 200+ fancy pocket knives in wall mounted glass cases and don't sharpen those. I think knives dull from detergent and just sitting in humid air, occasionally needing a touchup. My friends think my knives are TOO sharp. Only way to go is scary sharp. Don't even acccidently touch anything you don't want cut. |
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i've collected 20 + various knives benchmade, sog, colt, smith and wesson, swiss army. they all stay in the orignal box. i probably open then once or twice a year to inspect/ clean them. in other words they are never used, they have never been used or sharpened a have one auto that i carry, and one colt cobra. thats about it |
Working on a fishing boat for ten years quickly taught me that taking the time to learn how to turn a butter knife into a razor will save you valuable time and effort. i laugh at the guys sawing through bones 20hrs a day for ten days in a row and then saying thier arm and shoulder hurts or they can't work from carple tunnel. I always ask them if they are trying to cut that fish with friction . Just never let someone else take a stone to your knife or it will cost you an hour or more.
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If you heat my knife, it'd go through butter with almost no problem. And for the dull knives are dangerous thing, I think only people who havn't had multiple stitches from a sharp ass knife snapping shut on their finger then out of reaction yanking their hand out say that. The blade on my spyderco could stand to be cleaned up a bit, but i'm not a fan of these razor sharp blades. |
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Often depends upon the use for the knife. The one which I would use to cut copper wire, etc does not get as good an edge as a knife for another purpose that requires a really sharp edge. The test I use, after finishing with a black-hard Arkansas stone, is as follows: I pull a single hair from my head and hold it by one end so that the hair is horizontal. I then hold the blade above the hair by about 4 inches, and let my arm drop under its own weight. The hair must be cut cleanly. The blade at that point will also allow me to split the hair when I pull it from between the blade and my thumb. Dave. |
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Quoted: And for the dull knives are dangerous thing, I think only people who havn't had multiple stitches from a sharp ass knife snapping shut on their finger then out of reaction yanking their hand out say that. quote] Generally this happens because folks don't properly use their knives, I treat all my locking folding knives like the blade could snap shut on me. I generally use fixed blades these days though. My stuff stays damn sharp. I get annoyed when visiting someone and their kitchen knives are dull, like a steak knife or something. Even my axe and hatchet get sharpened up to damn sharp when I clean them up. A knife is a tool. In order for it to do the best job it should be damn sharp. |
| So dull that I'm ashamed when my friends see me use it. I have a great limited-edition Benchmade and I just haven't gotten around to buying a nice sharpening kit. I'll have to fix that this weekend. My friend likes the one Spyderco sells... maybe I'll give one a try. |
Lansky Using the Lansky diamond set, with extra fine stone, mine are shaving sharp. |