I was super stressed about it (still is, thanks for all the help and good words in the knives instances) I guess I will see if I did good on my next camping trip.
You just disqualified yourself from this community.
You can now move on to sharp_mens_club
It have taken me 6h to get this one, clearly not sharp enough
Isn’t sh*rp a banned word here?
Is it?
Edit: Hah I get it lol
This post made me laugh so hard. I thought it was posted in shitposting community. So I kept looking for what about this picture was shitposting. Then I saw the community name, and had to laugh. Good post. Good post.
Did you actually, or did you make it…dull, man?
Good one
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Seems to be sharp from my test on paper, not extra sharp like my other one but the blade thinner.
Now you can cut your poop with it.
Hey, BPSKnives, love them!
Will be my first time trying it in camping situation. 🤟
Mine have been real workhorses for a few years now - my only wisdom to impart is that the steel holds an edge beautifully, but keep it dry because it’ll develop surface rust surprisingly fast, and that the scales tend to get dried out and really benefit from being pulled off and given a nice soak in wood conditioner (howard feed-n-wax is my favorite, for entirely childhood imprinting reasons) + a buff with some high grit sandpaper once you put them back on. Really lovely knives.
I was taught to test the edge by trying to slice a piece of paper, if it resists it is hard to cut you need to keep going. Although my experience is it’s fine as long as you do a halfway decent job of maintaining the sharpening angle and not wobbling all over the place. Don’t stress it, you can always sharpen it more!
Paper slicing is a reasonable test, but you still have to make sure you’re getting rid of the burr. A burr will cut paper just fine but in actual use will dull very quickly. Having at least one finer grit and a strop makes this fairly easy. Doing it on one grit can be quite tricky.
+1 to not stressing about it though, half my knives have a patchwork look of different bevel angles along them from learning to sharpen. So long as the current bevel is consistent all the way to the apex they work just fine. Presumably a knife that is being sharpened is meant to be used and not admired for its looks.
Used the back of a leather belt for strop, don’t have one. Hope it will be enough
That’s pretty much what I did. Test it on a sheet of paper. The resistance seems equal to my Mora so I think I did good. Don’t seems to cut to much hair of the back of hand though
