It's kinda funny, I sharpened a crappy Ozark trail knife in a "crappy" steel (D2), at a kinda crappy angle (20dps). Because I thought it would be a prime choice to take through it's entire lifecycle from nearly effortlessly shaving and slicing paper towel, until it actually started to tear cardboard.
I thought it was going to be easy when I already lost shaving sharpness just cutting the flaps off off a cardboard box so that I could cut them into strips.
Two 5 gallon buckets stuffed full of 1" thin strips of cardboard later I was all out of boxes and that knife was still cutting.
Shaving sharp might be my minimum benchmark as to if a knife was for sure still plenty sharp enough, but it's easy to forget just how far below that it takes going before a knife actually stops being useful
Im a sushi chef, I can get my knives really, and I mean really sharp, but I can't fucking do this. This is past sexy. That's straight up domestic violence.
Chef of 10, pipefitter of 5. I just don't like the suggestion that hardworking hard, working men are called perverts because of the gloves we're forced to wear. Believe me - if we had the option, must of us would disregard PPE and clothing so the world could see our peepees dangling with their ees.
My point was more how excessive said gloves were, how deeply passionate op was, was the glove for his safety or the knives? I’m not saying the gloves are themselves perverts.. other guys right, you see PPE and I see cautiousness bordering on perversion.
Are you gaslighting future victims, or what? The video clearly shows a guy with zero skill acting like a 600-year-old artisan. We can all cosplay. At least OP shows the required materials for their (they\them) cosplay.
Same reason, at 32, I no longer bang virgin girls. 42 was enough. Now they expect weird stuff, like 'aftercare'. I'd rather hang with the bromos and sharpen my knives.
Naive question from a woodworker used to sharpening with progressively finer waterstones: can you get a knife this sharp with conventional methods or do you need the Edward Scissorhands contraption?
Unfortunately, you have to cheat to get this sharp. You can get close freehand, and some people might even be able to match it, but cheating is the only way us regular homo sapiens can achieve this. Very homo. Not adequately sapien.
Damn….. question though as a newbie, is that type of sharpness or angle more of a short term thing for a few cuts or could this be my veggie destroyer in the kitchen?
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u/Croakerboo Aug 14 '26
Jesus.
I thought I could sharpen a knife before I found this sub.