Feats of sharpness
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Jeff that's how I have cut myself several times. It is just my nature to try and catch something I am dropping. Must learn to not drop sharp knifes.
Home cook that enjoys sharp knives.
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This is a quick video I made for a customer...the blade is a 210mm gyuto in 52100. Sorry didn't have any fruit to destroy in the shop...newspaper had to suffice.
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A mini-chef (160ish mm western profile) I just finished making. First time I tried this only because I finally remembered to save an empty paper towel roll!
Now I'm waiting for somebody to donate a few unopened water bottles... hehehe
Edited to add: I use a very simple and cheap progression to put the sharp edge on my knives. I do a freehand zero grind when I make the knife, then it gets freehand sharpening on DMT XC diamond plate, Naniwa superstone 400, King combo 1000/6000, then strop on color newsprint ad. I think the first time I ever sharpened a knife on waterstones was maybe seven months ago, and I don't do it very often, so anybody can learn to do it themselves!
If a CKTG customer gets a sharp knife, it's conceivable that they could get along fine for a very long time with only an inexpensive combo stone like the King 800/6000 if they kept up with thinning often enough.
Now I'm waiting for somebody to donate a few unopened water bottles... hehehe
Edited to add: I use a very simple and cheap progression to put the sharp edge on my knives. I do a freehand zero grind when I make the knife, then it gets freehand sharpening on DMT XC diamond plate, Naniwa superstone 400, King combo 1000/6000, then strop on color newsprint ad. I think the first time I ever sharpened a knife on waterstones was maybe seven months ago, and I don't do it very often, so anybody can learn to do it themselves!
If a CKTG customer gets a sharp knife, it's conceivable that they could get along fine for a very long time with only an inexpensive combo stone like the King 800/6000 if they kept up with thinning often enough.
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This thread is quiet but I'm still having fun making silly videos...
I had chipped some of the edge on this knife cutting melons and other stuff on bamboo and plastic boards, so it was honed a few passes each side on an Idahone ceramic rod then stropped on newspaper laid on my kitchen counter about ten to fifteen times per side. Original edge formation was my usual: bevels zero ground on belt sander 400 grit belt, sharpening progression of DMT XC, Naniwa superstone 400, King combo 1000/6000.
I had chipped some of the edge on this knife cutting melons and other stuff on bamboo and plastic boards, so it was honed a few passes each side on an Idahone ceramic rod then stropped on newspaper laid on my kitchen counter about ten to fifteen times per side. Original edge formation was my usual: bevels zero ground on belt sander 400 grit belt, sharpening progression of DMT XC, Naniwa superstone 400, King combo 1000/6000.
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I'm still reading it! I love videos. That looks like the one you made no too long ago eh? Pretty nice dude. I think that's the cleanest I've seen a bottle cut without both parts going flying. Good job
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This was too much fun with slow mo video. Poor cabbage...
I just needed to fit the cabbage in the fridge.
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Nice thread. I have a couple I'll throw in, though they won't get me any credit, as they are not knives sold on the site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmdoD0Hevro
Old Hickory Slicer/Carving knife on rolled wrapping paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P4ZCawMN8c
Home made rescue knife (rescued from my friends back yard) cutting a grape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IvoHXBmuVk
RADA Cutlery from the local flea market cutting a grape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmdoD0Hevro
Old Hickory Slicer/Carving knife on rolled wrapping paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P4ZCawMN8c
Home made rescue knife (rescued from my friends back yard) cutting a grape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IvoHXBmuVk
RADA Cutlery from the local flea market cutting a grape.
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That last one is impressive, I don't think I have seen grape being push cut like that beforeme2_1115 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2017 2:13 pm Nice thread. I have a couple I'll throw in, though they won't get me any credit, as they are not knives sold on the site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmdoD0Hevro
Old Hickory Slicer/Carving knife on rolled wrapping paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P4ZCawMN8c
Home made rescue knife (rescued from my friends back yard) cutting a grape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IvoHXBmuVk
RADA Cutlery from the local flea market cutting a grape.
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Thanks. That was a heavily used and reground knife. I ended up donating it to the church kitchen where my wife works. I'd dropped the primary grind down to 3 degrees per side and added a 7 dps edge bevel and 10 dps microbevel. It wasn't that thin in the video, though the edge angles were close, but it's original hollow grind was long gone and a new convex primary grind added. That was my experimental knife for sharpening for several years. That's the one I measured blade width loss through a lot of sharpening and found it takes a lot of sharpening to make a noticeable difference. With care, even raising a burr, it was only 0.0005" of width per sharpening.
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Those Rehandle Goko's are really sharp, I think Mark sharpened them actually. I will try to get a nice video of one of those.
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Thanks Mark!ChefKnivesToGo wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2017 6:09 pmJust write me a note in the comments box when you check out and I'll refund you for it.
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Definitely not a CKTG knife but this was my first razor edge off my new Kalamazoo 1x42 belt sander. Who knows how long the edge will last but it was fun seeing a knife that cheap handle a grape like that!