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Thanks KingShapton. Really useful advice. I still haven't started on this project as I've been busy with other things. I also need to acquire a good piece of plate glass.
I'm planning on using this stone primarily for kitchen knives. These days I put the apex micro-bevel on my kitchen knives in most cases either with a fine Norton India stone or a hard/medium Arkansas (I don
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Quotemawecowa
Been there, in my opinion, the axis lock is one of the most convenient locks. I never required the thumb studs to get it to deploy, simply pulling back the axis lock thumbs to open and close. Never had a button lock, but I can see why it would perform practically.
Yeah, I really like the axis lock though I normally open my knife with the thumb studs. The button lock knife I have
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I can see it happening, but I'm still at the stage where I'm messing around with a lot of different locking knives. For example, this past year is the first time I've owned a flipper or an axis-style lock or a button-lock knife.
I started with a multi-blade folding knife I carried as a kid, but somehow I was able to cut myself with it when carving. I moved on to Benchmade and S
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jasonstone20,
Did you have to cut away metal so that the adjustment wheel can move forward all the way without the wheel hitting?
I'm at that stage, and it appears my wheel has clearance, unlike what the CCC video shows.
One of the first projects I'm going to play with is rounding the spines of some inexpensive kitchen knives I have. I like the way a rounded spine feels when
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I bought this knife because I’ve always wanted to try an Axis/Crossbar locking knife, but don't have the disposable income for a Benchmade at the moment. I don’t know much about Sitivien, other than it is a Chinese company.
I’m impressed. The quality is rather astonishing for about $30. The grinds are symmetrical, the blade is centered, the action is drop shut (probably common with Cross
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Thanks Jason.
That video by CCC is very helpful. I just bought one of these on sale and am following his steps on how to get it to run better.
I'm going to use it for sanding wood and occasionally try to sharpen very dull knives, or knives without a decent apex bevel with it. I sometimes sharpen kitchen knives for friends and family, and they have some budget kitchen knives that it wo
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That's good to hear.
I'll probably get a Mercer just to experience the difference of cutting with the offset handle. As long as no one gets too crazy cutting strange things with it, I can probably touch up the serrations on my Sharpmaker. I've bought used serrated knives for cheap, and while I've gotten them sharper, I still don't get them anything like when they were
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Interesting article as I've been thinking about getting an inexpensive offset slicer primarily for cutting meat.
I cooked more roasts and briskets this last year so I got a Victorinox slicer (the sort with the rounded tip) with a 10" blade used off the bay. I put an edge back on it and did my best to micro-bevel it on a Norton fine India. I think a similar knife with an offset handl
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I agree that this looks quite good.
I've heard that a lot of deer hunters these days use Victorinox Fibrox boning knives to break down deer. This Benchmade seems to have a similar blade shape and comes with a sheath and a lanyard hole. I don't have any experience with CPM-154. Benchmade says this is sharpened to 28 degrees inclusive and has some sort of highly polished edge.
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jasonstone,
Thanks for the advice and link to Stefan's videos of flattening.
The stone isn't horribly out of flat, but I think I want to do most of the flattening work with the coarse grit while going slowly and checking what's happening.
I won't overthink the conditioning/finish. If I use too high of a finish for my liking, I'll just recondition the stone with
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I've decided to try to flatten a large (roughly 10x3") Arkansas stone I bought off of Ebay. It was sold as a hard Arkansas stone and is non-translucent white/gray color. I'm planning to use silicon carbide grit on plate glass.
Any advice on which grits to buy? I've found a site that sells grit from 60 to 800 grit.
I assume that larger grit will flatten more quickly, bu
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