Hurricane like winds ravage this area of Virginia this weekend, a derecho they call it, basically a straight line windstorm, we did OK, got power, just trees downed everywhere.
Spent this afternoon doing my first convex job, picked BK2 because he hasn't gotten a whole lot of love lately, and it makes sense to me that convexing a blade with larger geometry would really make it more efficient. I like water stones, and so does Murray Carter, and after watching him put a convex on using his 1000/6000 I decided to do the same, I have a 800/4000 though.
Started motion with blade almost touching the flat.
Trailing stroke, rocking blade backwards finishing at about the 20 degree factory edge.
Spent quite a while on the 800 side. Observing all the time, moved over to 4000 when it felt right, spent probably 30 minutes all together.
The edge as I left it feels quite toothy, it definitely chops better than before, slices printer paper readily, but hesitates on newsprint. I think I'm off to a good start and will probably just keep going on the 4000, but I'm not sure I really need a hair splitting edge on my big boi.
Moving along...so I bought my first custom knife this week, from Big Chris here on the forums. This is also my first knife in what I consider to be an "exotic" steel - CPM 3V. .140 thick, scary scary sharp. I like it. Going to be good for EDC I do believe.
Be well everybody.
- Blair
Spent this afternoon doing my first convex job, picked BK2 because he hasn't gotten a whole lot of love lately, and it makes sense to me that convexing a blade with larger geometry would really make it more efficient. I like water stones, and so does Murray Carter, and after watching him put a convex on using his 1000/6000 I decided to do the same, I have a 800/4000 though.
Started motion with blade almost touching the flat.
Trailing stroke, rocking blade backwards finishing at about the 20 degree factory edge.
Spent quite a while on the 800 side. Observing all the time, moved over to 4000 when it felt right, spent probably 30 minutes all together.
The edge as I left it feels quite toothy, it definitely chops better than before, slices printer paper readily, but hesitates on newsprint. I think I'm off to a good start and will probably just keep going on the 4000, but I'm not sure I really need a hair splitting edge on my big boi.
Moving along...so I bought my first custom knife this week, from Big Chris here on the forums. This is also my first knife in what I consider to be an "exotic" steel - CPM 3V. .140 thick, scary scary sharp. I like it. Going to be good for EDC I do believe.
Be well everybody.
- Blair
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