/ktg/ Knife Thread General

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>>33090922
Good start. Got to master the bolster making though so they'll sell like hot cakes. Would still buy those to beat on daily.

Side related note. Fairly new to flicking Spyderco knives and already this blurple one owns me for life.

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>>33090922
Using the thumb to open a Spyderco like a newfag. It's all in the middle finger flick, I pretty much use it for all my folders (thumb studs included) besides flippers.

found a german ww2 bayonet, untouched, kept in the original condition by my father. anyone interested in pics?

>>33091671
Was using my index finger hence the bite.

>>33091688
Of course.

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>>33091696

>>33091716
Needs some TLC.

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>>33091733
whats that? i was thinking of sharpening it and to get rid of the rust, but maybe its better to keep it in the original condition..

>>33091759
Tender love and care. Even if it's a historical piece I would personally clean it up and keep it.

>>33091795
any tips for taking care of it? new to this.. cleaning with vinegar or wd40 seems popular

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>>33091831
I doubt it is worth too much, but you may want to confirm it's value first, just oil it in the mean while.

This is my 1907 Enfield Bayonet. It's only worth $70 or so as far as I can tell, with out it's sheath. So I would not feel horrible cleaning it up, but really it's in almost perfect shape besides the wear on the handle.

>>33090922
Inb4 SOG posts fake
Spyderco is pleb tier

>>33091866
passed on by family, wont sell and no point checking for value. btw that espada looks very sleek

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>>33091883
In that case yeah start by just thoroughly cleaning it with an oil like wd40. Then consider going to some rust polisher like Flitz. Also consider something like Renaissance Wax.

Or there is the cheap, and drastic option; water/oil and steel wool. But that will completely strip the coating as well.

Yeah I like it, I just put it there for size comparison, I tend to use it and the standard SAK.

>>33091831
PB blaster that blade then like namefag said some flitz.

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>>33092018
thanks guys. whats PB blaster? im in europa so we might have different products here

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>>33092029
Basically like wd-40 on steroids. We use it for more heavily rusted items.

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>>33092053
Guess this is wd-40's version of PB blaster.

>>33092067
thanks, will be nice and clean tomorrow)))

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>>33092146
You should post your progress

>>33092210
nice collection youve got there!! will do

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Found some cheap bocote for a handle, should i make my hunting knife out of O1, 5160, or 1095?

>>33092412
If you're going to abuse it 5160. Otherwise o1. 1095 if you want to save a little money.

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*posts itt*
Heh, nothing personal kids.

>half the posts are from named trips
WOW
reddit/10 thread

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Where dem mirrors?

>>33092982

Above my bed.

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>>33090922
PM2s are literally the easiest knives ever to open and close.

IDK how you can possibly fuck it up.

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>>33092982
Here ya are. My Boker Tux Kwaiken at 16 per side (I think)

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>>33093037
Sweeet

>>33092210
>>33091866
>>33091946
I can't get over who retarded the Espada is
It's really at the size where a fixed blade would be infinitely better

>>33093033
My benchmades beg to differ. As to how I messed it up I imagine I wasn't holding it right.

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>>33092613

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>>33093286
I love mine because two words: Meme Knife

I got it on sale a year or so ago for like $100. I would argue though that if you were looking to get into a knife fight, for what even rediculous reason, the Espada is very easy to conceal compared to a 17" fixed blade, and believe it or not, it's much faster to deploy than a comparable fixedblade from a concealed position.

Other than that, it's just a lot of fun to play with, as you can see I've got plenty more practical knives.

>>33093615
Kek, you showed him what's up

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>>33093617
Preach it!

>>33093617
>meme knife
you've sold it to me

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>>33093789
You should get one and join the cult of annoying feggots who post theirs too often in Ktg threads... there are currently only two of us I think, we need more...

Although I'm a poor fag and have the G-10 one... so >>33093675 is our leader.

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Never going to use it for its intended purpose unless I get a chance to camp out anytime soon. Might as well use it for other tasks.

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>>33093615
Careful with that espada, the grueling 3 foot fall onto the carpet could damage it :)

>>33093037
I can imagine the photo op, you just shoving your knife in your girlies flowers

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>>33094608
Pretty much what I do honestly kek.

>>33092613
Can you at least use a new picture?

I've seen this one in every thread

>>33095036
He is an obvious troll. If he owns a Sebenza, that's not a picture of his, it's in like the first few rows of Google Imagines

>>33090922

I think it is harder to open a para 2 like that than flicking it.

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>>33090922
I meed something with S110V. I'm thinking Manix 2.

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>>33092210

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>>33097692
Yeah I really like the burple s110v blades. I'm probably going to pick up a PM2 and Military in it at some point. Partially because I have no blades in s110v in my collection, and as a knife sharpener, I like to have reference blades... honestly that's just an excuse to buy some knives.

But right now my next knife on the list is the s35vn blue Kershaw Link. Oddly enough, I also have no s35vn blades of my own, despite sharpening many of them, so it's an excuse.

>>33091671
How's the Centofante 3? always wanted one but couldn't justify the price for 3" blade or whatever the fuck it is considering the Endura's bigger and better. I still want one though

What the fuck happened with Emersons?

You used to be able to find them online for around $150, but I haven't seen a single one under $200 in the last few years.

Also their QC has really slipped.

>>33097830
join the PM2 blurple party.
do it.

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>>33094193
Don't be mad your knife can't take a single spine whack or hold 5 pounds or weight ;)

>>33098598
?????????

Is this a good inexpensive knife or are there better ones available?
Kershaw 6055 CQC-4KXL

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>>33098750
Kershaw Skyline has treated me right.

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Just got a new Buck 119.

Thoughts?

>>33098099

>What the fuck happened with Emersons?

Same thing that happened to surefire in the light world. They got left behind by the market.

>>33093033
kinda hoped that you would mess up

Does anyone have a recommendation for my first pocket knife? Never thought about having one until I got stranded in shit-fuck nowhere.

>>33099283
Shouldn't have been so shitty IMO

>>33098844
How do you like it? I see a lot of use, how's it holding up?

>>33099443
It's held up well. No issues.

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>>33099443
also my contribution

>>33091671
Does it really matter, though? I can see that you lose some grip stability in the split second you use your thumb instead of your middle finger, but what else about someone's choice of finger-flipping makes it inferior? It's a split second, and anything short of being in a self-defense scenario armed with only your pocket knife seems rather trivial.

>>33092067
Use this shit at work all the time.

Can confirm this shit works good.

Released many a rusty threads with this easily. Cleans shit up well too.

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>>33098070
It's a good knife... Not much to say other than it's a Endura with a different shape. I sold this one last year, I liked it, but I needed money and had some other knives I wanted to get.

>>33098123
I aim to when I am done with this semester and get back to work... the first few pay checks may just be knives lol.

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>>33099430
You could make me mad jelly by buying a Enzo Piili and posting pictures of it here
>dat sleekness

>>33099475
i need to know what this one is

>>33099881
Shun folding steak knife

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>>33098836
Yeah, I know we've talked about the Skyline before, it's a great knife, I mean I own 4 variations after all... It's also my go to sub $50 light edc knife recommendation... However that may change, I really like the look of the Kershaw Link, and it felt nice when I got to handle one. I'm going to get one of the more expensive s35vn ones and see how well it holds up.

>>33099199
Checked..
I love the 119, it's such a classic. Feels a little odd in hand though, all the classic handled bucks do honestly. But they are nice knives, just not recommended for heavy tasks. I'm thinking about getting the Buck 124 at some point, I wish they made a 119 with a handle like the 124. (pic related)

>>33099598
I did not mean it in a stand off kind of way, it's just kind of a inner Spyderco circle thing that Spyderco fags talk about a lot... a minor meme if you will

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>>33099430
The kershaw Skyline is a great starting point, that's where I started 7ish years ago. I own 4 right now (pic related). But I would also strongly consider the Kershaw Link with aluminum handles. I handled one the other day and was blown away by the quality, considering the price point. Both are made in the US and under $50. Also the Cold Steel medium Voyagers if you want a really strong knife, and the RAT 1, are also good for sub $50. If you can swing $70 though, I can not recommend the Cold Steel Code4 enough.

>>33092613
I know that its handmade and blessed by Chris Reeve's fat middle aged 13 inch cock but otherwise what is so special about sebenzas?

>>33099980
Ah I was actually just looking at the Cold Steel Code4. Thanks for the recommendations.

>>33099868
Bit out of what I'm willing to spend on a knife to be honest. I wouldn't use it all the time (I almost never have the need for one now, anyway) so it's not something where I need the best of the best, yknow? Thanks, though.

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its pretty good for a clone

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>>33100017
Yeah it's just a really good knife, it's my go to hard use folder, although it may not be comfortable for some peoples hands, it is very slim and wide.

>>33100016
They have out standing fit and finish, quality control, they were the first knives to use a frame lock (or RIL, Reeve Integral Lock), and they pretty much modernized the "tactical" folding knife. Not to mention they have one of the smoothest actions of any knife. And personally, the design is very beautiful, the lines are very well thought out, and a lot of knife collectors and designers agree with this.

ALL of this being said; They are complete shit from a functional perspective. And I'm not even talking price. I'm talking like compared to a $30 Kershaw, they are shit. He runs his Steel WAY too soft, to the point where it has poor edge stability, many people have warped their edges while cutting heavy rope, that is $5 chines knife level crap. And the lock being so smooth comes at a cost, it does not take well to shock or static loads, as Cold Steel showed, and I trust their testing not to be a complete lie.

>>33100017
Yeah it's way out of my price range too but for the complete opposite reasons, I use my knife a lot but a lot of it is the sort of hecked up stuff no sane man does with an actually nice knife so it's just sharpened crowbars for me

>>33100158
I kinda expected that, they are sexy as fuck but they just look like they can take a beating, even "Gentleman-edc" type of abuse.

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New edc

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>>33100292
I got a new EDC the other day too... except I lied, it's just new and really sexy...not really EDC... would if I could.

>>33100250
Which one, the Code 4 or Sebenza, I assume the Code 4.

I believe thread number is around 77-78.

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So Tigon is a pretty neat knife, insanely sharp out of the box and a good blade shape, but the handle design is not the comfiest around which seems to be a reoccurring problem in Kizers, and it's a very traditional flipper in a sense that you need to flick your wrist if you want it to open all the way

>>33098665
check out youtube for a video test of sebongo's lock strength. Or lack thereof. That's what you get when your big name brand is so used to marketing to idiots it thinks quality control and proper knife design doesn't matter.

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>>33099430
>>33100017
If your knife usage can be summed up as "maybe" I'd suggest looking at some neat little slipjoints like douk douks and what have you. They're hardly impressive blades but they're better than nothing (unless you're a complete mongoloid, then they're worse than nothing because you'll cut your fingers off) and won't take up a lot of room in your pocket

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Sitting at work right now, posting my edc for today.

>>33099199
The buck 119 is a great knife to have. It can do just about any job you throw at it and sharpens really easily. Plus it's sexy as fuck.

>>33101829
i wouldn't get that excited. It might be a decent hunting knife, and it can cut things like cordage/food, but to be a truly great knife, it just doesn't have a very good design.

Handles with guards are not very useful for a working knife.

im thinking about getting the cold steel broken skull

seems pretty light

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>>33101375
So you like it all around? I like some of their designs, but I'm still not sure how I feel about spending so much on a Chines blade, and that business strategy in general; that is making very high end knives in china. I will have to give it a try at some point. I guess I'm okay with Spyderco making their highest end knives in Taiwan, so I should be okay with this.

>>33101416
I do trust Cold Steel is not lying about it's performance. More so I also trust the videos from Jdavis where he managed to not just roll, but warp the whole edge of a Sebenza in a cut test... That being said I think you may have miss diagnosed the problem. Their QC is pretty much second to non (for the price at lest). More so the knife is designed very well, unfortunately not for strength. Their flaw is trying to be too much of what they are known for (smooth) that they have lost track of what makes a utilitarian knife good.

>>33101168
Well considering there were so many knife threads since these were labeled incorrectly we can just make the next one 79.

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Bow down

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>>33102006
Why? lol. Too be fair the 940-1 in pic related is not mine, I had it in for sharpening.

>>33092210
Where did you get that case?????

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>>33102111

>>33102019
Mine hasn't been sharpened since I got it, I don't use it much and the s90v holds an edge for a long time against the stuff I do cut like foam or cardboard or paper.

Any tips on sharpening? Are you using stones or a system? I've been thinking about buying a system because I'm not coordinated enough to keep a consistent angle on a stone.

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>>33102078
It's a Pelican 1500. They have what is called "Pick and pluck" foam, you can customize them to fit your knives, cameras, guns, ect...

>>33102111
>>33102120
Looks really nice, what brand/maker?

>>33102217
My sharpening pretty much pays for my blade hobby. So I've got a lot of equipment. My primary set up is called a Wicked Edge, but it costs around $800 in the spec I have. I use a lot of other equipment as well.

For beginners I really recommend the spyderco sharpmaker dor the final edge and free hand for the rough work.

>>33102373
Sorry should have posted this earlier. It's a Shivworks clinch pick

>>33102006

I have a satin 940 with a green handle coming in a few days, I love the look.

>>33101420
Random anon here, just ordered a higo no kami two nights ago, it's not even a slipjoint but I think it'll be fine, will post about it

>>33102126
My nigga, underrated Knife imo

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>No one else on here has a multitool that comes with its own rape whistle.

It's like y'all don't wanna be prepared.

>>33105214
Out of all the useful leatherman designs, you picked the most memeworthy trash one

Why

>>33101427
They have computers in Poland ?

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>>33099980
my dude

Does anyone own a Cold Steel Tac II? I read a review on it saying it's not that great but I'd like to carry one on my belt for EDC.

Any other recommendations for a fixed blade 3 1/2" EDC knife?

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Is Buck a meme manufacturer?
Only recently started getting into knives and have had this one since forever.

Any good baby's first knife?

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>>33107103
Buck is an alright manufacture, they make good entry level stuff, some of it is not that great, but most of it is pretty good. They only have a few good folders though, more of a fixedblade company.

What are you looking for, fixedblades or folders, and what price rang?

>>33106062
Kek

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>not having a piece of art as a knife

>>33107427
Right ? I was as confused as you are. Tech in Poland. Who knew ?

>>33106062

indeed, we do. And the best looking women. U jelly?

>>33107908
A bit. Nice knives

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what is this squiggly line that you often see running down a Japanese sword?

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Just got a Benchmade H&K Citation tanto folder at Big 5 on sale for $19 bucks. Last week I got the Flak for the same price. I like the Citation a little better because I don't like serrations and I do like tantos, but they're both great knives, especially for that amount of money.

>>33108307
Hamon (no idea on the spelling) line, shows a differential heat treat.

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>>33108395
i like the tanto i got a whole lot more than i thought i would

i was a lil nostalgic for my mall ninja days but its an excelent tool. I make tons of shallow cuts day to day to open things without damaging whats inside and the tanto has become almost exclusivley my work knife.

still got the same ol same ol, eyeballing stuff the wallet cant see for now.

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>>33108307
It's called a Hamon, and as >>33108414 said, it's left over from the heat treat. It's a bit of a style thing, the smiths can make different patterns depending on how they apply the insulating clay to the spine for the final quench. Also, there is an art to sword polishing, the polisher can bring out the hamon in different ways.

The one you have in your pic is a fake hamon, probably put on by a wire brush. But having a real hamon is not always a sign of quality, it is the traditional method, not the strongest way. Modern mono tempered katanas are more durable, and often preferred over traditional ones for practice cutting. I have a Mono Temper Katana.

pic related is mine. A Hanwei Raptor.

>>33108453
Your picture makes me nostalgic, too. My grandmother has exactly the same type of outdoor table, and has had it for as long as I can remember (and I'm 43).

>>33108522
if it aint broke dont fix it

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>>33092982

You rang? Bonus points for it being a freehand mirror on Maxamet at ~70 HRC.

>>33093037

MOAR

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>>33108606
That's pretty impressive.

>>33108618
I may have a few more, I need to take more photos of my work, really I only have good photos of my Tux Kwaiken... In this one you can see some slight imperfections in my polish. Could use some more time on my Ceramics and first strop.

>>33102217

To give my usual song and dance:

If you are interested in learning to sharpen freehand I would recommend you start by buying some cheap knives to practice on, buying a Norton India IB8 combination coarse/fine oilstone, some mineral oil, and watching this video and practicing what you are shown until you can reliably replicate the results shown at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWU_qTp3DLM

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>>33108684

Thanks, I enjoy putting a freehand mirror on a knife occasionally. Makes for nice pictures.

Here's a good shot of my HAP40 Endura with a ~10 degree per side freehand mirror edge bevel.

And yes. You do need to take more pictures, it will help you advertise your sharpening services.

>>33094052
>Not using a massive chopper on carrots and potatoes
>While trying not to cut the counter in half

Pleb.

http://www.cliffstamp.com/knives/forum/read.php?6,44186,46111#msg-46111

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>>33108802
I think my next endeavor is to put a nice mirror on my CPM-M4 ZT 0770cf.... and yeah we've gone through the high carbide steel discussion before lol... I was in a rush when I put my first edge on it at like 18 DPS, and did not take the time to really polish it beyond a dull shimmer.

I'm thinking I'll do 15 and micro bevel it once it dulls a bit. But that's going to have to wait, I'm over my head in Calc and Physics studies atm.

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>>33108802
Oh and say, you have any suggestions for a nice big single layer low grit water stone? I'm getting more into free hand, and I'm tired of using my giant Norton Tri stone for the rough work. I need some low grit water stones.

I bought a 800 girt King stone on Amazon today, maybe a bit close to my 1,200 grit... King also has a good looking 240 grit, but it's a big one, and I don't feel like putting $70 on a single stone right now.

I have a 6k and 8k, might look for a 3ish k as well.

One of my current projects is regrinding and mirror polishing the grind of a Ontario SP-10... My 1200 is too fine for getting it started.

>>33109114

If you want a price conscious low grit option, I would consider the Norton 220x. It's a loose bond stone that will have to be flattened frequently, but in exchange it cuts faster and the mud it forms helps burr minimization.

If you are willing to splurge, the Sigma Power Select II 240x is the fastest low grit waterstone in existence due to being made of silicon carbide rather than aluminum oxide and having almost no binder at all. It wears very fast, but the cutting speed is astronomical even on steels like M4, ZDP189 and Maxamet.

Another pricier option, but one in the harder, less muddy, slower wearing style would be the Naniwa Chosera 400. Its a very good stone and a good option for jumping right to 1,200 afterwards. If I was getting the Norton or SPS-II I'd go 220 (or 240) -> 800 -> 1,200.

Also note: If you get the Norton or SPS-II DO NOT try to flatten them with a DMT plate as you will ruin the diamond plate. Only an Atoma 140 diamond plate or loose SiC grit on a glass plate can be used to flatten waterstones that coarse.

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>>33109240
I think I may give the Naniwa a shot, thanks for the advice. I'll get one when the semester ends and I'm back at work, or maybe if I do a few more batches of customer knives. Although right now the next batch is going into a Pelican 1600 to store all of my Wicked Edge and Sharpmaker stuff. I'm tired of having it laying around all over my work bench, and having to wrap up all the stones, and put them delicately in a bag when I have to transport it all.

I know it is a bit sacrilegious in the sharpening "community"... But eventually I'm going to get a Tormek T-8, just from a business stand point. It can't get a knife as sharp as a wicked edge or practiced free hand, but it can get a knife sharp enough very fast. Most of my customers are Chefs, and I could offer them a lower price, while greatly improve my hourly sharpening income, keeping the supper mirror edges as a premium offering.

>>33109468

The Tormek is fine in my books as its low speed and has active liquid cooling so there should be no concerns about de-tempering the edge.

Because I only sharpen my own knives, its just faster for me to freehand on waterstones and then microbevel using a solid non-friable stone or strop with a coarse particulate abrasive. I usually just use a Sigma Power Select II 1,000 and then jump straight to putting on a microbevel in the ~4k to 8k range.

Because the microbevel cuts under the scratch pattern of the edge edge bevel, you can skip grits fairly easily.

>>33107286
I know I'm 3 hours late but I'm looking more for a folder in about a $80 - $100 range

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>>33109579
Yeah, I've decided that I want to start, for the most part, standardizing the edges on at lest my folding knives, and keep a maintenance chart (edge angle, sharpening date, ect...) in the top of my Pelican case. I think for the most part I'm going to mirror polish most of them at 15ish DPS and then micro bevel them latter on, just to minimize material lose and sharpening time over the long run.

>>33109582
That's a good price range. I really love the Cold Steel Code4, it gets a lot of things right for $75ish. I carry mine if I know I am going to be using my knife a lot. Also the Spyderco Manix 2, if they are even still sub $100. The Kershaw Link in s35vn, I'm buying one soon. There's a lot of options.

>>33109694

That sounds like a sensible approach. I tend to do something broadly similar in that I usually shape the edge bevels on my pocket knives around 10 degrees per side and leave them like that so I can micro-bevel them when I need them at whatever grit is suitable for the task.

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>>33109747
The only reason I don't run my edges that thin is because I've done some pretty abusive things before, when trying to reach into an engine bay to cut a zip-tie keeping good edge alignment is not always possible. Granted normally I carry something like my Code4 or RAT1 while at work, so it's not a tragedy if I fuck it up. Also the WE does have some angle limitations, on most knives around 13 DPS is the limit with out getting creative. This is something I would use the Tormek for, to really thin the bevel.

By chance... you happen to have any knowledge on sword sharpening? I've maintained my Katana for 7 years of on and off cutting with ceramic rods... now that I just got a $700 longsword, it's time to figure out a solution. The go to in the sword community is the Work Sharp, even for collectors of thousand dollar+ swords. I rather not, then again, I don't want to free hand 37 inched (times two) every time I need to sharpen it.

>>33108395
Is Big 5 still doing this shit? Holy smokes

>>33109694
>There's a lot of options.
That's good to know.
What would be an approx. price cutoff where quality starts becoming an issue? ~$50?

>>33110035
eh id say$40-$30ish. you have a few solid gems in that price range. They arent amazing, but they have a lot of the important details right

>>33109919

Yeah, my EDC knives mostly get used for a mix of food prep, cardboard, clamshell packaging, consumer grade zip ties, etc. so I can run very thin edges without issue.

Mind you, I also choose my steels to suit the edge geometries I like (i.e. I stay away from high chromium, high vanadium content steels).

Can't say I have any experience with sword sharpening, unfortunately, so I can't really help you there.

>>33110035
peerrrrrrsonally, I beat tha FUCK out of my knives. For an ~eighty dollar budget, I'd get an Ontario RAT, a Kershaw Skyline, and something small, a Kershaw Pico or Shuffle. Or Case Peanut.

No sense to me having a ONE AND ONLY high dollar knife. If used, it'll get dull. If it gets dull it becomes useless. Better to have back up while you find time to get around to sharpening it.

>>33108395
What steel is it? I can't find anything online or anywhere about it

>>33093033
why do you have kale in your wallet

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>>33110121
Sword sharpening is a bit of an oddity... I would do it on my 1x30 belt sander, like my machetes, axes, scythes, ect... but I don't want to scratch the flats which sometimes happens. I may give the WorkSharp a try for the heck of it.

>>33110035
Like has been said before, for sub $50 you have the Kershaw Skyline, Kershaw Link (base model), Ontario RAT1, Cold Steel Medium Voyager... there are plenty of others, but those are some of the better ones, and I own/have personal experience with those.

>>33110553
kek I missed that.

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>>33110912
I still wanna know why you have kale in your wallet

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>>33111190
Oh that's not me. I'm just as curious as you.

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step aside, heathens

>>33102006
What kinda knives are thoughs?
Caught my interest

Did i just see people bash on spyderco and not Gerber and kershit? Kek

>>33109582

Get a benchmade mini-stryker from blade HQ. Awesome blade and since they are discontining it its cheaper

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>>33108606

have a picture my good fellow (not mine, found on the internetz)

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>>33091671
Here's a middle finger flick for you, knife snob.

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>>33113232
Rocksteads are beautiful. One day I'm getting one, but right now I'm not quite willing to put out $1,000 on a single knife, and their cheapest (last time I looked) is a $300-$400 neck knife, still way out of budget, that's up their with my swords.

>>33113279
kek, well I guess you aren't wrong.

>>33100017
>I wouldn't use it all the time (I almost never have the need for one now, anyway)
That's what I thought when I got my first knife. Turns out I use it all the time. It's a tool that's worth having. You don't need to spend more than $30 to get a high-quality knife that will serve you well for a long time.

The knives other anons have suggested are good recommendations. Cold Steel is a meme, but they make very tough and reliable knives.

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>>33113380
Did someone say Cold Steel memes?

(pic related not mine)

>>33101868
I have a Broken Skull VI in pink. It's very light for such a big knife. Cuts like a dream.

>>33108864
Damn. Been bested.

>>33113232

Lmao at Rockstead and the faggots that buy them

They have a hole on the blade A FUCKING HOLE ON THE BLADE.

You can tell nobody uses them for shit if they keep selling with a motherfucking hole on the blade

>>33113947
Weak bait

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Spyderco Szabo

>>33114187

Not bait

I'd never buy any of them, same reason why I never buy any Spyderco fixed blade.

Having a hole on the blade of a knife is beyond retarded

>>33108606
Lovely mirror

>>33092982
Was done on a fallkniven DC4 and a CC4 small.

I don't want to move to Waterstones but I do need some new slightly larger benchstones. Any recommendations?

>>33114958

Thanks. I hadn't done any freehand mirrors in a while and getting my hands on a Spyderco Mult Team in Maxamet inspired me so I could be the first asshole on the internet with freehand mirrored Maxamaet.

What grits are you wanting for those benchstones? What's your budget?

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>>33115178
Need a good fine/ultra fine combo

Want something that can mirror even better than the cc4 for $40

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>>33105214
Err, excuse me

>>33105214
That is a lie, I have a rape whistle and I blew it for hours and alas, I am still unraped.

>>33115623
Lol

Hey guys. I'm stuck on trying to figure out what this guy did with the knife on the left, the Boekr Kwaiken with the custom scales. Can anyone tell me how he achieved that carved look, and with what material?

Can someone explain nuking? I've looked around and the best explanation I've come across is that it was a chemical process, but I'm not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajT7jxR6I_8

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>>33115992

The bottom one. Pls no bully I'm too new for knives.

>>33090922
I dont know what to call what im looking for but i think survival knifes? I know that sounds like some aspy shit

That actually get used too and are well built, none of this fancy clean knives with 0 scratches that you use for posing with pictures of apples shit

>>33115473

Unfortunately there aren't too many non-waterstone options for higher grits. Really the only ones I can think of are the Spyderco M/F/UF benchstones (I'd put the grit equivalents at 3,000/8,000/12,000) and the DMT EF and EEF benchstones (they are about like 1750 grit and 4000 grit respectively.

>>33092613
>still no timestamp.

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>>33116062
It looks really nice, almost like a Burnly Custom Kwaiken. It looks like he just did a lot of dermal to it, and then anodized and stone washed.

The "nuking" is not a formal term, it's pretty much only used with in custom/modified knife circles. So the definition changes, generally it is an anodized (involves chemicals and electricity) Ti or Aluminum and then a combination of different stone washes.

I'm a fan of not just the Boker Kawaiken, but the kwaiken style in general. I was going to get my first one customized, but it's not really my thing, I rather put the time and money into other knives.

>>33116283
Because he's still a troll.

>>33114366
Baitbaitbait

>>33109240
I'm new to sharpening, I found a bunch of water stones at a yard sale and bought them for pretty cheap. I've watched enough tutorials on how to use them, but I can't seem to find any easy to understand information on how to sand the stones flat. The ones I bought do have a little curve in them.

What do you use to level a normal, run of the mil water stone? And do you have to use different ones for different grits?

>>33116595

You can either use a very coarse diamond plate (E.g. DMT XXC or Atoma 140) or you can use a glass plate and loose silicon carbide abrasive powder. If you search YouTube for "how to flatten a waterstone" you will get demonstrations that include how to draw a pencil grid on the stone as well.

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>>33116347

Thanks a lot for answering my questions! I've been looking for well over a year to see what this guy has done to his. Apparently he doesn't ever answer questions...

I figured he meant anodized when he said "anno tank", but wasn't sure. I found this on BHQ listed as the Kwaiken Tactical, so I think I'll go with that and end up stonewashing it myself. I'd like to replicate the look on the scales themselves, but I'll take a look around if I can just get blanks and do them myself ala dremel as you said.

This'll hopefully be babbys' first knife. Thanks!

What scales do you have on the second from the bottom? Looks really sweet.

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>>33118183
All of those are factory stock, well besides the edge, if that counts. I think the one you are looking at is the Original Kwaiken, it's the first one that came out, I bought it with in a few months of the launch, at lest 4 or 5 years ago now. Before the they had a flipper and just a thumb plate. It's Micarta Scales, I think they are still in production.

I favorite one, and maybe my most commonly carried knife, is the Tuxedo Kwaiken, it was a blade HQ exclusive, not longer being made. The handles are all Titanium (well and carbon fiber). Pic related