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Achmed Jones posted: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 depends on the tool. I wouldnt bother with an axe, but for a chisel? absolutely. The nice thing is it takes literally 10 seconds to re-strop right back to absolutely razor sharp. I only have to go to the diamond plates if i forget and dont strop regularly or if i chip the edge or something.
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oh that makes sense. could i leave the strop in the garage that gets very hot in the summer and pretty cold in the winter, or would it have to come inside? also, got any brand recs?
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Achmed Jones posted:oh that makes sense. could i leave the strop in the garage that gets very hot in the summer and pretty cold in the winter, or would it have to come inside? also, got any brand recs? its literally just a block of wood with leather glued to it. just get a scrap bit of plywood or mdf and glue an equally sized piece of scrap leather (mine is from a pair of my wifes boots that fell apart) to it, bam, you have a strop. mine is about 4" x 8" something like that. you'll need buffing compound tho https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000DD35Y/
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May 15, 2023 22:16
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oh that's easy. cool, thanks!
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I use the cardboard off the back of a notepad as a strop. Not ideal at all, but with compound it will still get a knife razor sharp.
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at home i have a couple of waterstones and a honing steel and that works for my day to day needs. at school we have a T8 to maintain all the woodworking tools and it's a joy  Achmed Jones posted: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 stropping is critical to getting a razor edge. what you are doing, mechanically, is not removing any material, but cleaning up and straightening the very finest point of the edge that is formed in sharpening. the edge continues to get turned over as you use it, and regular stropping straightens it back out. a honing steel does basically the same thing and proper use is to hone the knife every couple of uses, or after a few dozen cuts in continuous operation. not all knives need a razor edge, but stropping or honing regularly never hurts.
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May 16, 2023 01:56
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the steel hone just has its own spot in the knife block so you can give it a quick hone whenever you take it out to use it
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May 16, 2023 03:41
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lol i know what it does man, i've just never cared enough to do it and it seems a bit much for kitchen knives i don't hone either, but that one's because i'm afraid i'll mess it up and gently caress up the blade long term
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May 16, 2023 03:44
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if you think stropping doesn't do anything noticeable or that honing risks loving up the blade, you don't really know what those processes do, i think.
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May 16, 2023 04:21
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you can just buy a new knife from Target
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May 16, 2023 04:23
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Sagebrush posted:at home i have a couple of waterstones and a honing steel and that works for my day to day needs. prolly the biggest difference when watching him do it vs anyone else is how slow he does it, he goes very slowly and carefully, presumably making sure the angle is very deliberate etc * he’s just turned 40 this year and god drat his body is hosed because of how hard it is. idk what he’s gonna do for the next 20+ 😔😣
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Achmed Jones posted:lol i know what it does man, i've just never cared enough to do it and it seems a bit much for kitchen knives i would agree that stropping is a little much for kitchen knives unless its like for sushi or something, those thing you want like scalpel sharp which you only get from a strop
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kitchen knives don't always have the right angle to be stropped effectively, but they should definitely be honed.
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oh come on sagebrush, surely it's not the case that you can't figure out a way that someone might damage up a blade by honing the angle wrong, or applying too much force. right? right? and you understand that it has everything to do with that, and not misunderstanding the process? i think you know that and you're just pretending
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May 16, 2023 06:02
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monday night's as good a night as any for a good old fashioned sagebrushin'
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yeah, i'm kinda grouchy today. gotta get it out
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Sagebrush posted:. gotta get it out
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BONGHITZ posted:you can just buy a new knife from Target that’s crazy, i just replace the carbon steel blades if they get too dull. i guess I’ll try sharpening them now tho i started using box cutter utility blades recently because the #11 exacto sized blades are kinda weak. i found this Sheffield folding one and it’s held up well so far. https://kk.org/cooltools/sheffield-ultimate-lock-back-utility-knife/  kk dot org cool tools has a lot of cool tools https://kk.org/cooltools?s=Knife while we’re at it shout outs to https://usesthis.com/ https://www.tindie.com/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/ https://earth.nullschool.net/
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I have a stanley version of the same thing it’s good
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did i post my EDC noives yet?
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for some yospos content, i used to have a ceramic-cased EPROM that had some broken pins so i sometimes used the backside to sharpen small blades. its not very good, but it was better than nothing, and an amusing novelty
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BONGHITZ posted:you can just buy a new knife from Target i just walk in with my hosed up knives and swap them out with new ones on the shelves. this one time what I thought were new knives turned out to be some of my other old ones from a previous trip to the store. boy was i pissed when i got home.
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President Beep posted:i just walk in with my hosed up knives and swap them out with new ones on the shelves. this one time what I thought were new knives turned out to be some of my other old ones from a previous trip to the store. boy was i pissed when i got home. lol
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President Beep posted:i just walk in with my hosed up knives and swap them out with new ones on the shelves. this one time what I thought were new knives turned out to be some of my other old ones from a previous trip to the store. boy was i pissed when i got home. is this the fabled sigma grindset
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armpit_enjoyer posted:is this the fabled sigma grindset
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lol
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Used to be at the shipyard anyone (regardless of employer) could go into the tool shop, drop their knife in a big barrel and pick up a new or sharpened one. Turns out it's less expensive than risking people faffing about with dull knives and hurting themselves. e: I mean, still might be. It's been over 20 years since I built ships.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Used to be at the shipyard anyone (regardless of employer) could go into the tool shop, drop their knife in a big barrel and pick up a new or sharpened one. Turns out it's less expensive than risking people faffing about with dull knives and hurting themselves. e: I mean, still might be. It's been over 20 years since I built ships. but you gently caress one goat,
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Used to be at the shipyard anyone (regardless of employer) could go into the tool shop, drop their knife in a big barrel and pick up a new or sharpened one. Turns out it's less expensive than risking people faffing about with dull knives and hurting themselves. e: I mean, still might be. It's been over 20 years since I built ships. did you have to reach into a different barrel for a sharp one? sounds fun and dangerous.
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It’s your day in the barrel
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Captain Foo posted:It’s your day in the barrel 
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and now it's your blade in the darrell
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while you were out partying i rummaged for blades
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President Beep posted:while you were out partying i rummaged for blades
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I would read an entire book on that exact type of 2000s proto-incel goon: fedora, samurai sword, delusions of grandeur. How many of them grew out of it vs how many became today's QAnon/MAGA army?
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ADINSX posted:I would read an entire book on that exact type of 2000s proto-incel goon: fedora, samurai sword, delusions of grandeur. How many of them grew out of it vs how many became today's QAnon/MAGA army? good news friend https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310612.A_Confederacy_of_Dunces
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President Beep posted:did you have to reach into a different barrel for a sharp one? sounds fun and dangerous. No there was a service counter. You just asked for one. The other barrel was for Vasili.
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ADINSX posted:I would read an entire book on that exact type of 2000s proto-incel goon: fedora, samurai sword, delusions of grandeur. How many of them grew out of it vs how many became today's QAnon/MAGA army? I too regret I didn't keep a diary 
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shame on an IGA posted:good news friend hmm, lot of people handing out bad reviews as they astutely point out how problematic it is to glorify obviously intended-good protagonist ignatius
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:hmm, lot of people handing out bad reviews as they astutely point out how problematic it is to glorify obviously intended-good protagonist ignatius is he actually intended-good or is he just a reflection of the author, for good or ill
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