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Yes, it generally requires some human action for a knife to cut somebody. That's not the same as saying that knives can't hurt people by accident. I feel confident predicting that more than one of...

Anything CAN hurt you. Knives can hurt you by accident. I (a person who should know better) have accidentally cut myself quite a few times.

We can argue (and I do) that people's fear of knives...

People are scared of dangerous things. Knives are dangerous. End of story.

Some people unlearn the fear, or are around a certain dangerous item so much they never learn that it's dangerous. In...

Cross cutting the scratches, with a very light touch, lets you abrade the wire edge away ever so slowly, rather than trying to pop it off with a strop. I haven't been doing it this way long, but I...

I have a towel impregnated with Corrosion-X, and wipe it down periodically. I have no worries about corrosion.

The tool steel makes this a fantastic whittling knife. Even at sub-30 bevel angles,...

The Urban is a fine, fine modding platform. And if you go to England, you can pack it in a checked bag. Other than that, you can expect its role to diminish significantly. The Air is just too good...

The blade stock is 2.3 mm. But very little of the actual blade is actually that thick. It certainly slices like a thinner blade than my Chaparral, which is 2 mm.

The M4 does take a mean edge,...

This.

Yeah, it's not G-10. It's a single layer of fiberglass cloth (if glass, it's silicon, not carbon), embedded very shallow in one side of a slab of resin.

The thought of sanding it down to just the...

I've been whittling with mine a lot, and I've got the edge now at 14 degrees per side. It's holding up like a champ. There's no such thing as "overkill" if you're going to be cutting much wood.
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It's a brilliantly executed piece of work. When I first got it, I almost sent it back (mostly just because I wasn't adjusting well to my first liner-lock). Now I'm really glad i didn't.

There is...

Cool. Now I understand.

I guess I'm just lost as to what fundamental unit, or ratio of units, is used to measure "sharp" under this definition. Is it the microns' distance across the edge? The ergs of downward force...

Under this definition, is a 20 degree bevel equally "sharp" as a 90 degree angle (or, for that matter, a 135-degree angle), so long as each is honed to the same fineness? If so, it seems to be a...

The Air lacks a lanyard hole, but the open back is wide enough for a rawhide boot lace to go around the rearmost post.


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Aside from the differences in the physical format between the 3 (lockback vs. liner, twill CF vs. polished), there is one big difference, IMO: ZDP 189 is capable of stable edges that are...

No -- they were discussing the Air Bradley (which is a sub-3" M4 blade). The mention of the Tuff was just an aside.

Some of you may be familiar with Lee Valley, and its in-house toolmaking shop Veritas. Veritas woodworking tools are good stuff -- not always elegant looking, but typically designed smartly and...

There are rumors in the wind.

Hey, cool! I've borrowed/stolen so many good ideas from this forum; it's good to know I was actually able to give one back.

Frankly, "stout" isn't even what I like about the comp lock; I don't think any of my uses would cause any properly-constructed lock mechanism to fail. I like the fact that one can disengage it...

Yeah, sometimes the unfairness of it all sort of rankles. The guys who already have the luxury of EDCing a 3.5 inch knife ALSO get their pick of probably a half dozen sprint versions of the PM2...

Shhh! Don't start a stampede; I still have to contact Jim to see if they've still got the Collector # that matches the Chaparral I got from him.

Testing blade penetration on cuts of meat.

Mmm. Pretty.