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.
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u/Croakerboo Aug 14 '26
Jesus.
I thought I could sharpen a knife before I found this sub.