Am I the only one?

[PiercedBill]

^^^ This :thumbup:

 

[bodog]

I just don't feel like it's my knife until it has my edge on it.

That's because once you put an edge on it, there's no turning back. No more "LNIB" in the sales thread.

 

[jpm2]

I've never met a power sharpened edge I liked, and couldn't make better by hand.

 

[gadgetgeek]

Since most of the knives I pick up these days are used, I will often give them a little brush-up before using them. I don't have the funds to cycle through a lot of knives, or have ones that are purely safe queens (save a couple really special ones) If they don't go into the users list, they go on the gift pile, and I could never gift a dull knife. As for all the new ones I've bought, they've never stayed sharp for long, I think the only knife I ever got that left my hands LNIB was one that ended up as part of a three part trade. I "owned" it long enough to stick the new shipping label on the box!

Jpm2, your comment reminded me of something I heard from one of my uncles (a long time farmer and timber cutter) He had been at a saw workshop/class for a job and the guy at the front of the room said "I'll teach you all how easy it is to put a factory sharp edge back on a chain" Apparently my uncle's response was "well, thats too bad. I've never yet bought a chain that was sharp enough."