Thread: EDC Knife

Originally Posted by TheGeek

I do love a good honing. But doesn't that give too fine an edge on a knife?

My knives are work horses, I'd have them on the stones all the time trying to maintain that.

Geek

What is too fine an edge via honing, exactly? It’s an honest question. I’m not being funny.

I could polish or hone a flat piece of metal to as fine a grit as I wanted, and I’d still not be able to use it to cut anything. Make a good mirror though.




The angle you hone at can make your blades edge too fine, but how polished you make it, or how fine a grit you use, does not make it “too fine.”

If you have good steels and are constantly sharpening, you might want a less aggressive bevel or a micro bevel even.




Good luck!

I prefer a 1-1.5k diamon edge for all my working knives.

that's why your honing all the time,, a work knife or Kitchen knife doesn't need a high grit stone. mine are maxed out at 1200, and most are fine with a 600 grit hone. a high grit edge just dont hold up. and so far I can cut meat, vegetables as good as my neighbor that has expensive Japanese knives and wants them don't at 12k. makes him mad when I cut things as thin and smooth as him at 1000 grit. been using a DMT 320 for most to get it sharp, then my Atoma 1200 to finish. on my pocket knife, the 325 takes care of rope, wire, and my boxes. so all you guys who go to extremes, bring it on, I haven't meet a tomato or sushi roll I cant cut as well, with my Bruno knife off an Atoma 1200 Tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

that's why your honing all the time,, a work knife or Kitchen knife doesn't need a high grit stone. mine are maxed out at 1200, and most are fine with a 600 grit hone. a high grit edge just dont hold up. and so far I can cut meat, vegetables as good as my neighbor that has expensive Japanese knives and wants them don't at 12k. makes him mad when I cut things as thin and smooth as him at 1000 grit. been using a DMT 320 for most to get it sharp, then my Atoma 1200 to finish. on my pocket knife, the 325 takes care of rope, wire, and my boxes. so all you guys who go to extremes, bring it on, I haven't meet a tomato or sushi roll I cant cut as well, with my Bruno knife off an Atoma 1200 Tc

Right!?

Bah, it drives me nuts when guys think the final grit they use to sharpen their knives has anything to do with what they can get through.

Like anyone, I can use a blade with a DMT 1K edge and go through a tomato, or I can take a 12k edge and go through a tomato. But the fact is, sawing, cutting, and slicing are all different things, and that’s where it makes a difference. If you care that is.

There is a reason bread and rope knives are serrated. There’s a reason why some swords are straight, and some are curved.

The fact is, you could... you really could shave off a 1K stone - it’d hurt, but you could brag to your palls with 20k stones that you do it and they waist thier time and money.

On a microscopic level, when cutting through food, the more polished a blade, the more sanitary and the longer the food will stay fresh, but it doesn’t matter if you are cutting into a cooked steak to feed yourself does it lol?

All we want to know is, can you peel a grape with your 1K 24* edge knife lol! Because I can with my lousy Benchmade hehehe.

Picked this up as graduation present and for work. In the field a lot surveying and pocket knife can come in handy on occasions. Picked up a spyderco Dragonfly 2 in orange so hopefully I don't lose it in the field, VG 10 steel.

(just default image from google, to lazy to take picture and upload it but looks the same as this)

Originally Posted by earcutter

The angle you hone at can make your blades edge too fine, but how polished you make it, or how fine a grit you use, does not make it “too fine.”

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Good luck!

I totally agree. I'm a bevel angle nut. Only the drawing showing 60 degrees is actually a 30 degree bevel.

Originally Posted by bluesman7

I totally agree. I'm a bevel angle nut. Only the drawing showing 60 degrees is actually a 30 degree bevel.

Is it? Or is it 30x2=60 because it’s only a 1/2 lol!!

Heheheehe

Earcutter's EDC is an R41!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Earcutter's EDC is an R41!

If you know what the bevel is set at sharptonn, you win a prize!

I always just ask Victor!