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I have been thinking that my mom might like a serrated paring knife. For years she has only used dull knives. I learned to sharpen but for the most part nobody is allowed to touch my kitchen knives. I also sharpen the Cuisinarts that everyone uses, but they get the snot beat out of them and don't cu...

Worst case scenario is you have to grind down the tip as WilliamMunny has demonstrated with a nifty graphic. For the sake of my own knowledge and the OP's though, what would everyone think is the least expensive tool you could use to regrind a tip? Would a Dremel do the trick with enough patience an...

What are you doing for scales? I haven’t quite made up my mind on it yet. I got some cherry wood I think would look nice, but my ideal scales would be polished black linen micarta, sourcing and machining those with what tools I got sounds challenging though. If anyone knows, Is sanding and hand fil...

Most materials that I know of are some variation of what is the typical construction of Micarta and G-10, usually some mixture of a given material held together with resin/epoxy. Kirinite I believe is just some sort of solid resin not mixed with anything other than coloring. C-Tek is resin with a gr...

Cool, looks like a Spyderco mule knife.

Care to share some specs on that knife there? Not exactly my style, but it does look impressive, ha ha! Differential heat treat from the look of it?

I kinda curious what people here think of bigger, heavier knives and whether or not they have a place in your kit for any particular application. Many big knives are made to help you survive the apocalypse, chunks of steel that Rambo might use, but still there is a group of people who seem to believ...

Well I carried my K294 mule in Moab and Arches National Park for the first week of April and didn’t notice the sheath damage till a couple of days ago. Can’t carry a gun in National parks so I carried my mule in its place on my gun belt. Well apparently the rock scrambling and sitting down (sheath ...

Neat! I have heard mostly good things about the Tormek, I expect it can really speed things up. I have been sharpening a lot of kitchen knives lately, but I do it all free hand, so things can be a little slow depending on what I am doing. There can be some inconsistency with freehanding too, althoug...

If the Bow River had been made in the U.S., it would have been something I'd have a hard time resisting, but I have a feeling part of the reason it is so successful is because of it's low price tag as a result of being made in China. To me though, it would be an awesome knife if it was made in Golde...

It certainly seems like trying to judge the average intelligence of any given generation has never made us much smarter.

Here are the specs on my custom: It is 225mm long, 52mm tall, about 3.2mm at the spine, with 80crV2 carbon steel at 62hrc. The profile is basically a taller, longer version of a Kurosaki Raijin, the grind is a high full convex, and the handle is an octagonal sandwich construction with reddish wood l...

This is my current go-to, a bit of a splurge knife. I didn't really need something this fancy, but I really appreciate American hand made knives, so I had this made custom. I like custom knives so much I plan on getting more in the future, but that will have to wait until I work up the budget for it...

If you can just sandpaper it, I'd just do that and call it good. Probably easier than bothering to mail it out. I took apart my Endura, cut down the first finger bump, and chamfered the inside edges of the handle scales. Now it feels exactly how I want and I didn't have to send it anywhere and wonde...

Skimming this I am surprised that it seems well informed. None of the info is new to me after having done a deep dive into culinary cutlery about two years ago, but it is quite nice to see an article that is much more educated than what you usually see. All of the knives mentioned are ones that are ...

Well, I have no problem if that's your opinion, I just can't pretend something that happened, didn't happen after all because "youtube wouldn't do it."

OK, in simplest terms my instructors got banned for posting gunsmithing videos. This was either intentional or totally arbitrary. Either way it happened, and I'm sure anyone here can infer what they will from that. Or you can assume I'm making it up, which is up to each person's discretion of course.

And that doesn't mean my instructors didn't get banned.

Watching tanks blow stuff up doesn't teach people how to maintain the tools that we use for defence. Being able to do your own work on firearms to keep them in working order does. They don't care if you are watching useless content.

Maybe it just wasn't a Spyderco? That could make sense of it.

My gunsmithing instructors had their content banned from youtube, so stuff like this is nothing new to me. And no it is not because they were promoting violent or stupid behavior, they are some of the best instructors in the world. It is really just a continued effort at an anti-weapon agenda, that ...