Thread: Who has honed a knife then shaved with it?

I don't think it matters what kind of open edge you shave with as long as you can do it in under 20 seconds.

Originally Posted by mainaman

Until you guys shave with a spoon you ain't got nothing to brag about. Do not forget to sharpen only to 6k and strop on cardboard or you are not manly men.

I never hone my spoons past 2k. As far as I'm concerned, anything past that does nothing to improve the shave.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

While I am sure you can, I don't really see why you would, a knife that is genuinely razor sharp would be a fairly useless knife. There are videos of guys shaving with axes, hunting knives and apparently even a spoon, I am happy to use my razor to be honest.

For bragging rights man! I think the spoon is next on my list

Originally Posted by Utopian

I never hone my spoons past 2k. As far as I'm concerned, anything past that does nothing to improve the shave.

Lol

On a Side note Merry Christmas!

Originally Posted by dghardyjr

For bragging rights man! I think the spoon is next on my list



Lol

You are already behind the curve by a few years, been done with all kinds of tools. We have seen a spoon, knives, Chinese cleaver, scissor, machete. Ron mentioned a chisel. Anything can be made sharp enough to do a single pass but I doubt anything other than a razor can take the type of edge to be good for WTG,XTG, and an ATG pass.

Ooooh, a cleaver. I've got one of those and never have shaved with it. It's a nice wide heavy murder weapon type of cleaver that I honed up a few months ago, I'll have to give it a go.

Thanks for the idea!!!

Maybe a chainsaw or something might be an advance on shaving with stuff not designed for shaving. As has been said you won't be treading any new waters using a knife.

Originally Posted by JeffR

Just for kicks one time I put a shaving edge on my trusty Buck 110 and shaved with it. It's no big deal to shave with a knife; they're just kissin' cousins to a straight razor.

Just did this, this past week with exactly the same knife. Many have accomplished this but I wanted to accomplish this as a personal goal with my Arkies. Not a horrible shave. Not a BBS but no burn and good enough to go to work.

I want to try a pice of precision ground glass or ceramic