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I got bored and decided to mirror polish this Cold Steel "Black Bear" Bowie Machete. No real reason than I thought it would be fun to mirror finish a bevel this large. The back bevel was too recurved to put on stones without a ton of reprofiling, but I kind of like it being a coarse on tha...

Okay, so... Magnacut. It's awesome right? Wear resistance, toughness, AND corrosion resistance. No one has ever been able to strike all three categories. Awesome. On the other hand... What if you don't care about corrosion resistance? There have been a bunch of steels that deliver a great balance be...

I've done a few blades that had uneven primary grinds enough to make the edge bevel width uneven no matter what I may have tried. Are you sure it's not the knife itself causing it or were you definitely sloppy in grinding? Good catch! I never actually considered that it could have been the knife, b...

How do you guys feel about uneven bevels? I was looking at a Kershaw knife I did years ago when I was first getting into free-handing. I added a "relief" bevel that I convexed, but it wasn't very even. On one side of the blade, about the mid-point from heel to the tip, the relief bevel's w...

Sigh stumbled onto this thread and thought hmm 🤔 maybe this will help sort out my confusion. Nope! Just reinforced my confusion with HRC and bevel angles. Sigh 😔 still optimistic that I will figure it out some day. Here's a good post by Larrin Thomas that should shed a little light on the matter ht...

It's already been said, but yeah, its cheap and easy to work with. It blows me away when I see $200+ knives made from 1095. I could care less how good someone is at blade smithing, no knife made of 1095 is worth that much. That's like paying $50 for a McDonalds cheeseburger. (Which I suppose isn't ...

If I learned anything from those experiences, it was that you really don’t want to be debating the legalities of your knives, or anything else really, with a peace officer. Reminds me of when a cop told me my neck knife was a concealed weapon, and I argued the law with him. He basically said he wou...

https://i.ibb.co/bX8RRFd/PXL-20231231-132734630-NIGHT-3.jpg I LOVE Wild Turkey. Bonus points if you get my choice of knife to pose with this. I have been wanting to try their 101 rye for years but could never find it. Finally found it this winter, and it was worth the wait. I actually have been try...

I'm kind of surprised that I have only seen one person mention legalities so far. Here in my home state of WA, I have been advised by police that you basically don't want to carry a knife whose blade is longer than an officer's palm is wide. In many municipalities like Seattle, that's codified to 3....

Got this pretty cool little flashlight from Cabela's for $30. It was either this or the Streamlight Micro USB, but this one seems a little more useful with the swiveling head, and it has a magnetic base. Says it's 600 lumens in "turbo" mode, but I dunno if how accurate that is. Seems brigh...

Thanks for the good info, Shawn. It makes perfect sense. I should have never chose a Manix 2 with its very thin factory edge. I dabbled in freehand sharpening and love convex edges, but I could just never form that bur well enough to get the sharpness I wanted. I moved to a KME sharpener a few mont...

Admittedly, I do carry a "beater" and a "sweeter". One of them, is cheap, and if it breaks, chips/dents, or whatever else, I'm not going to cry over it. However, the other, I kind of reserve for tasks only which I am certain it is not going to incur damage from. A Victoronix &quo...

I can't even open the OP's picture...

What were the knives?

I mean, I'm just curious. It seems like the consensus was there was a fup.

https://i.ibb.co/wwLQ6Nt/PXL-20231211-052231779-NIGHT.jpg Just breaking in some new diamond plates I got for my birthday. Don't worry, that's not a real Gerber Strongarm. It's just some knock-off I bought on Temu for $1.48. What better sacrificial lamb? I got... Atoma 400 Atoma 1200 DMT D3C DMT D3F...

Has anyone else noticed that 15V sharpens more like a simple carbon steel like Case CV or 1095 than it does like a carbide-rich alloy? I broke down a couple of kitty litter boxes today that dull an edge pretty quick. They're 4-ply corrugated cardboard with lots of clay dust, and bits of clay in the ...

Relax. Anything that anybody wanted but missed, will be available on eBay by tomorrow, as buyers flip their purchases. Lol didn't even have to wait until tomorrow https://www.ebay.com/itm/196087618282?hash=item2da7bb9aea:g:Y-MAAOSwgglkyCpL&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4HKtx3S%2FrWyXcPo%2F%2FJmJvhn3Zo8%...

Relax. Anything that anybody wanted but missed, will be available on eBay by tomorrow, as buyers flip their purchases. Lol didn't even have to wait until tomorrow https://www.ebay.com/itm/196087618282?hash=item2da7bb9aea:g:Y-MAAOSwgglkyCpL&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4HKtx3S%2FrWyXcPo%2F%2FJmJvhn3Zo8%...

Lol wow, I thought I would have a few minutes to spare... Nope. Both the Manix in Maxamet and S110V were gone within 3 minutes. The PM2 in S110V seemed to last a second longer, but was gone as soon as I clicked on it. Thought a $20 Bowriver sonded nice, but it also said it was sold out as soon as I ...

Please oh please don't release the HIC Mule until January...

Perhaps my error was in my wording... Am I still incorrect by saying that his formula shows that edge geometry affects wear resistance more dramatically than the HRC on number-to-number basis? In other words, a difference of 5 degrees seems to have a much greater affect on the outcome than a differ...