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DELETE CASCADE posted:i get joy out of how #blessed
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Opinels are very nice and I like to give them as gifts. they're weird enough and not really threatening items also a big fan of morakniv's offerings , i have several
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May 14, 2023 17:48
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Once classes are over I'm going to take all my knives into school and use the Tormek to give them a razor's edge. Satisfying
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May 14, 2023 18:19
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Last night i just straight up broke one of my favorite knives, a HF ceramic paring knife that i've had for about five years. the thing just folded in half. handle in my hand, blade and tang (look there's not much there ok) stuck in the sando. RIP to a king. Oh well it's four dollars, i'll go buy a couple more.
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May 14, 2023 18:21
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have you considered the king double ceramic knife? it's a knife of the world
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May 14, 2023 19:57
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So, i picked up a ceramic set from amazon a bit ago, and the problem is, quite simply, they're TOO Sharp. like, there's no radius on the tip or anything, and given the material i'm pretty confident you could do eye lens surgery with it. i will investigate though
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May 14, 2023 20:00
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used to be the kyocera knives were recommended for ceramics, but idk if thats still the hot poo poo
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May 14, 2023 20:23
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got a Kalashnikov bayonet that still says СССР despite probably being manufactured this century, same with my MPL-50
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May 14, 2023 21:35
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i get joy out of how
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May 14, 2023 22:05
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i'm not a big fan of ceramic knives. i don't like that they are brittle and that you can't sharpen or hone them. any tool that can't be maintained is kind of a bummer
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May 15, 2023 04:42
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eh, i treat them like scalpels of the kitchen. couple bucks here n there. still like my 10" steel chef and my chinese veg knife a lot
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May 15, 2023 06:18
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lmao ceramic knives. yeah right. what’s next? glass spatulas????
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May 15, 2023 06:31
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on the topic of sharpeners, I have one of these it is from what I understand to be a legit brand, as are my knives, but I am seemingly doing something wrong as they don't end up that sharp. I might be using too much pressure or not enough, idk. is there like a foolproof, extremely in detail resource about how to use them? I watched the sharpeners official video but it's just like "pull the knife through the sharpener" and I'm doing that.
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May 15, 2023 06:54
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use a sharpie to mark the edge of your knife, like maybe 1/8 of an inch up the side on each side. Pull the knife through the coarse side (the grey side) a dozen times or so, while keeping the spine as wobble free as possible. light pressure (think of the level of pressure you would use when you brush your teeth) have a look and see how much of the sharpie mark is left. if there is still sharpie mark on the very edge but part of the mark further up is gone, then you have a long way to go (to reprofile the blade to the that sharpener's angle. if there is no mark left on the edge, then you can move on to the fine side. it takes a lot more strokes to get the knife sharp on this. it's polishing out the big scratches from the coarse side. it should be pretty sharp after this, but the real way to truly take it to the next level is with a strop. a good coarse leather belt would work too.
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May 15, 2023 07:13
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if it has carbide inserts, its just going to tear up the sides of the blade and not really get it very sharp. it will kind of tear through materials, so better than totally dull, but you won't get a nice clean cut out of it. if they're ceramic, maybe they work better, but i don't have experience with those in a V style
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May 15, 2023 07:17
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Wild EEPROM posted:use a sharpie to mark the edge of your knife, like maybe 1/8 of an inch up the side on each side. Thank you will try this. I hadn't picked up that the current blade might not be angled the same. Raluek posted:if it has carbide inserts, its just going to tear up the sides of the blade and not really get it very sharp. it will kind of tear through materials, so better than totally dull, but you won't get a nice clean cut out of it. if they're ceramic, maybe they work better, but i don't have experience with those in a V style The fine one is ceramic, I guess the coarse one is likely carbide.
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May 15, 2023 07:35
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distortion park posted:on the topic of sharpeners, I have one of these lmao a) they couldn't use a typeface with an ẞ character (lmao) b) they thought it was a B (lmao) e: just remembered an extremely stupid guy from work who insisted a foreign liquour was called Nubnougat. (That's not why he was stupid, he was just really stupid in every way.)
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May 15, 2023 07:50
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One knife ye hand! one life ye heart! What a perfect lie!
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May 15, 2023 11:29
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the coarse side is meant to only be used to get a very badly abused knife edge full of dents and nicks back to a regular shape. it's very abrasive and removes a lot of material. the fine side is what you use to get the edge. i have a lansky one like that and it gets my knife sharp enough for 90% of kitchen stuff. it's not as sharp as what you see on those insane videos where they go through 20 different grit whetstones because that is absurd.
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May 15, 2023 14:45
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i through out our sharpener last month. probably just gonna take them to the local butcher for sharpening
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May 15, 2023 14:51
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Silver Alicorn posted:I just got a sweet new tool old post but where did you get those? would be a perfect gift for my wife’s birthday.
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May 15, 2023 15:03
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Eeyo posted:old post but where did you get those? would be a perfect gift for my wife’s birthday. I just got them off Amazon, they have them at joann for an exorbitant price though search for gingher stork embroidery scissors
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May 15, 2023 15:05
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distortion park posted:on the topic of sharpeners, I have one of these I've had one of these for many years and it absolutely suits my needs. 
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May 15, 2023 18:22
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that video of the dude sharpening his knives on the concrete sidewalk
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May 15, 2023 18:23
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May 15, 2023 20:25
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rotor posted:I've had one of these for many years and it absolutely suits my needs. split the difference fellas: 
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May 15, 2023 20:30
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Those setups are pretty deece too yeah
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May 15, 2023 20:31
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the nice thing about the chefs choice is i can tell my kids to sharpen the knives and they come out great
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May 15, 2023 20:32
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the kids or the knives
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May 15, 2023 20:41
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got the sharpest kids on the whole block
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May 15, 2023 20:42
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Achmed Jones posted:split the difference fellas: ah yes the sharpener that takes as much skill to use as a regular stone but as good results as a pull through and rounds the tip every time
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May 15, 2023 20:47
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spyderco shartmaker
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May 15, 2023 20:48
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speaking of grinders, Wen makes a $130 tormek clone that is compatible with tormek jigs and is perfectly adequate https://www.amazon.com/WEN-BG4270T-10-Inch-Two-Direction-Sharpening/dp/B098KG28P2/ 
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May 15, 2023 20:50
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Wild EEPROM posted:ah yes the sharpener that takes as much skill to use as a regular stone but as good results as a pull through and rounds the tip every time nah you're mistaken on both counts, unless you're talkin a regular stone with a guide system, in which case it's just a different shape of basically the same thing
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May 15, 2023 20:54
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Achmed Jones posted:nah you're mistaken on both counts, unless you're talkin a regular stone with a guide system, in which case it's just a different shape of basically the same thing i reprofiled a d2 steel knife with one if anything the brown stone is not anywhere near coarse enough to be useful
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May 15, 2023 21:18
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i mean, yes? it's not really meant to reprofile blades. you are correct that using the wrong tool sucks though
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May 15, 2023 21:34
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the medium is ~600 grit iirc
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May 15, 2023 21:38
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so i really struggled with sharpening plane & chisel blades and the like and it turned out that stropping is the way to get that ball over the finish line or whatever. A strop takes your poo poo from "almost sharp enough i guess" to "ok yeah that is sharp as gently caress"
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ive never messed with a strop, it seemed like the sort of thing where it's gonna dull to pre-strop-capability so quickly that it never seemed worth it. i may be wrong on that iirc the fine doodad that came with the sharpmaker gets it sharp enough to cut hair, so i usually stop there. but sometimes i use the extra sharp one and it's good. keep in mind this is basically exclusively for kitchen knives; i dont remember the last time i sharpened a pocket knife im afraid to sharpen my santoku with it because idk what angle it's at, if it's only sharpened on one side, etc. and im afraid ill screw it up really badly
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