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I nominate this line for Thought of the Week. Thanx, alexvzin, for the smile! :D Granted I lack Russian skills, and the English used on the international Russian board in question still had enough non-English parts to make me question-mark my reading of the messages in question. But the impression ...

Hi, there's also the old pre-y2k thread Joe Talmadge started on BladeForums on sharpening BM's axis lock folders. These folders feature a slight recurve, which offers pretty much the same problems as the sharpening a hawkbill. Joe also likes to keep roughen the tip-side of the recurve for some tooth...

Hi, finally had some time to see the video. And I cannot help but wonder about the final strikes from below, which seem to be against the handle instead of the handle-side of the blade. In general, as long as you only hit the blade itself, and the handle isn't really "restricted", the lock...

+1 The Yin and Yang kick German butt with light saber efficiency partly because of their thinner blades. I'd disagree: +1 for the largest of Solingen serrated bread knives. If it's a real monster of a crusty bread, why not show it some respect and pull out Conan's sturdy ole 12" bread slayer. ...

probably not a hack this time:

From dig output: both sites are hosted on storefront-hosting.com, and the numerical IPs differ by 1. Virtual hosting configuration issues would my guess.

Anyway, do keep your eyes open :) .

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Peter

one word: cricket...

minimum hawkbill, belly, serrations - just the best of everything in the smallest possible package.

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Peter

check the current vg10 sharpening thread for hints. I'd say you've probably caught yourself some wire-edge that you need to remove before proper sharpening.

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Peter

military_cf/06.jpg (FYI it can get even bit closer to the scale with tightening the pivot) You should mention the knife type in the text as well :cool: Assuming that you've placed your image in the correct folder, try loosening/tighening the first screw on the back of the Mili near the pivot. Learn...

Think steak knife. Finally a usable pic of this knife style - I've already started to wonder about amazon's use of useless, blurry images... http://www.amazon.com/LamsonSharp-39766-Rosewood-Forged-Serrated/dp/B000A7KEFY/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1208769503&sr=8-31 The serrati...

Press a finely polished blade into the portion of the hair over your index finger, at about a 45-degree angle, away from the end you are pinching. Thanx for the description. With the polished high-angled small blade on a victorinox I could do it even with what I call my hair. Large enough evidence ...

I wanted to share some of the reasoning behind the choices made in the production of the Barong and the Khukuri. @Ed: given the chance to ask the man himself: what where the reasons for not retaining the sharp recurve section of the khukuri (after the belly)? The prototype only has a full-thickness...

All that's necessary for hair-whittling is absolute sharpness at the edge bevel. If the edge is a couple microns thick there is no reason for it not to whittle a ~50-micron-thick hair, just like how you can probably cut any vegetable with the edge of a metal ruler. Hmmm. My hair begs to differ and ...

I'll sure settle for the FG IF Spyderco managed to solve the vertical blade issue and the off centred blades of the Para I managed to get an off-center blade when I cleaned my Captain. The trick to move the blade back to its proper position: lighten the "pressure" from the small torx on t...

My bet is that Ed Schempp will have some interesting tests for sharpness, due to his expertise in producing and using specialty blades for cutting competitions. References for Ed's speciality blades - currently I've found only this thread: http://spyderco.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28995&page=...

An Atwood-style implement.

A baseline for a SAK with something similar would be some of the AITOR Captains. Though I'd say, there's still some room for improvement, holes and serrations on those captains as well :p

You are not off to a good start here because you have scared all of the CCers (Cardboard Cutters) with their FFG into hiding in the corners. :D Yep, it needs guys like Tomahawk to balance all of us flat-grounders :) . Seriously, consider a 2 tool approach: Spydie folder for cutting, and something l...

SimpleIsGood229 wrote:Don't forget the C111 Captain or the Manixes! I'm sure Arend would love some SE Manixes!

Doesn't the tip of the Captain just cry for serrations?

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Peter

My VG-10 folders have remained completely rust free, but my Yang kitchen knife rusts like crazy. In case you do not wish to return the yang for an exchange: If that's surface-layer only (say from sawing+grinding immediately after a run of non-stainless steel *), did you try to go over the surface w...

Hot d*, effortlessly cutting ZDP and S90V with the scissors. Now that's what I call a good steel.

Hmmm. Wait a sec - isn't the scissors' unobtainium steel also usable as a nice knife steel? I can nearly taste the next mule steel in front of me.

Surprise: for me, the Tenacious is a good fit. Quality, copper washer :) and everything was a good surprise (if I had taken a better look at the images and ordered PE instead of CE). My first spyderedge was a Cricket . You know: thin grind and edge, serration shallow to medium with not that much of ...