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- Wed May 01, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Flattening Whestones
- Replies: 17
- Views: 987
Re: Flattening Whestones
This is what I'd recommend buying from Lee Valley with some loose abrasive if you go that route. It may help to know what make/model of stones you are planning to flatten also. Waterstones, oilstones, Spyderco ceramics, etc... https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/sharpening/100086-glass-lappi...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:34 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Flattening Whestones
- Replies: 17
- Views: 987
Re: Flattening Whestones
This is what I'd recommend buying from Lee Valley with some loose abrasive if you go that route. It may help to know what make/model of stones you are planning to flatten also. Waterstones, oilstones, Spyderco ceramics, etc... https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/sharpening/100086-glass-lappin...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Visualizing the Tradeoff of Higher Hardness
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4401
Re: Visualizing the Tradeoff of Higher Hardness
I’d much rather have toughness than edge retention personally. A rolled edge is annoying but easier for a beginner sharpener to fix than a chip It's not only easier for a beginner to fix a roll than a chip, this is true in almost all cases. In general, if you don't mind using very heavy duty edge g...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:24 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: New Discoveries found in 8Cr13MoV testing
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33604
Re: New Discoveries found in 8Cr13MoV testing
This information is quite thought provoking and really shows another previously hidden variable to be accounted for ... Exactly. These types of insights are only obtainable by careful testing and measurement, not from so-called "real world" impressions, opinions, accepted narratives, conv...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:09 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
Is there anyone here smarter than I am who can explain how this could possibly work: https://youtu.be/dTyeLn7kt08 I get how it could work on a knife with axe-like geometry (like the ER he demonstrates it on), but Im not seeing how it could work on a knife meant to function like a knife. It does loo...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: T15 tarnish
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5169
Re: T15 tarnish
Perhaps, in general it's really impossible to know a person's motives for posting these sorts of things.yablanowitz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:54 amYou're wasting your time. He's blaming Taichung's oil so it won't be his fault that he rusted his carbon steel knife using stainless steel cleaner.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: T15 tarnish
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5169
Re: T15 tarnish
To me the patina and scratches are just part of the journey that a knife takes. It tells a story that can be seen at a glance. I never liked carbon steel before I got involved with the Spyderco mules but I’ve come to prefer it because I can’t wait to see the next gradual change in the color of the ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
Jason ^^^^^^ is the best I've ever seen at sharpening a knife. And, I'm talkin Free Hand! He's sharpened several for me & they've all cut and sliced better than anything I could ever turn out. The man has an amazing talent. Send him a knife or 3 and see..... I think you have me mistaken, I'm no...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
This video explains the basic process in simple way, start here... Would you say that plateau sharpening is harder than raising a burr? I feel like a burr is definitive proof that you have reached the apex--or gone too far according to some. I like the feedback, even though it is wasteful. I really...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
This video explains the basic process in simple way, start here...RugerNurse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:13 amWhat is plateau sharpening? Just alternating sides? How can you tell that you’ve apexed the edge?
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
Not to be annoying: but how large of a burr do you need? I saw some YouTube videos where the burr is so big they can break it off with their fingers. Mine never gets that large, no matter how much I sharpen on one side I don't need a burr at all to get a knife sharp, technically nobody else does ei...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
Not to be annoying: but how large of a burr do you need? I saw some YouTube videos where the burr is so big they can break it off with their fingers. Mine never gets that large, no matter how much I sharpen on one side I don't need a burr at all to get a knife sharp, technically nobody else does ei...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:34 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
Not to be annoying: but how large of a burr do you need? I saw some YouTube videos where the burr is so big they can break it off with their fingers. Mine never gets that large, no matter how much I sharpen on one side I don't need a burr at all to get a knife sharp, technically nobody else does ei...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
Spyderco Fine https://i.imgur.com/YRrbKa1.jpeg Spyderco Ultra Fine https://i.imgur.com/Yur3HJN.jpeg I thought this was very interesting, The difference in abrasive size is basically the same. Both the Ultra Fine and the fine both have larger ~15μm abrasive grains with smaller 5-10μm abrasive partic...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: You got your Ceramic Mule. How you gonna sharpen it?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 15793
Re: You got your Ceramic Mule. How you gonna sharpen it?
If shaving hair is difficult or impossible for most sharpeners with this material, it suggests that the material is not capable of getting to a thin enough cross section at the apex. This can happen with steel by formation of a burr but in this case I wouldn't expect much burr formation. I would sug...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Hitachi White Steel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3239
Re: Hitachi White Steel
This is not the case anymore? It seems to be the main focus here, from what I have seen.weeping minora wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:09 amAlbeit, this was asked for when "super steels" were the only steel that seemed to matter to the market. I'm glad this is not the case anymore. I would be up for a White #1 MULE.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Hitachi White Steel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3239
Re: Hitachi White Steel
I sure miss Cliff. He pops up in my RAM pretty often. I sure learned lot from Cliff. I'll watch the thread to see if there is enough interest for a Mule Team. Once you get past the "better" concept, All blade steels have their own flavor. That's why I've said, "No best, all good, jus...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Hitachi White Steel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3239
Re: Hitachi White Steel
I'm a big fan of it for kitchen knives. I'll have to post a photo of my favorite petty and show off how thin it is behind the edge. Very, very thin. I'd be interested in a mule in white #1. I'm curious how it'd hold up carving wood and performing other camp tasks. It gets very sharp really easily. ...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:27 am
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Hitachi White Steel
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3239
Hitachi White Steel
How is it that we have not seen a Mule with Hitachi White Steel? Considering the fact that this steel has categorically dominated Japanese cutlery for over a hundred years, it seems like a no brainer that there would be a Mule in this steel. I personally use a Nakiri daily in the kitchen which was h...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Community Sharpening Journal
- Replies: 2340
- Views: 412677
Re: Community Sharpening Journal
You try to apply steel logic to ceramic sharpening. Steel is ductile, ceramic is brittle. That's not a difference as in between a tough and brittle steel but completely different behavior. Ceramic doesn't fatigue, doesn't really deform plastically as steel does either. It just fractures. That's why...