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Just recently got a Kershaw brand Blur folding pocketknife. This particular model is the new one with the cool looking brown handle and SG-2 blade steel. SG-2 is shorthand for Takefu's "Super Gold Powder Steel 2." It's used in high-end kitchen knives made by KAI Shun and Ryusen.
Out of the box, this knife had a robust decidely sharp edge. SG-2, as heat-treated by Kershaw, has a high hardness and high wear-resistance, so if you like the factory edge, you'll like it for a real long time. It also has a recurve so you can add more force to your cuts.
At the shoulder of the initial edge, it was about 0.022" thick from tip to ricasso. That's thinner than a lot of factory edges on 'tactical' knives. Still, if a Darksider sees a silk scarf sliced apart by merely falling on an edge, he or she will want to resharpen that edge or thin it out some more.
That's where the belt-sander came in! 40 grit closed-coat belt (thanks Gus and Bill!), 100 grit open coat belt, 160/45/16/6 micron Trizact belts, and a worn mylar belt loaded with 0.5 micron CrO/AO buffing compound made the bevel go higher up the blade and look oh so much shinier.
Now the bevel is 0.025" at its current shoulder, but 0.012" where the old one was and 0.006" right above the edge. Not Darksider-approved, but better than Ezra for my return to the beltsander, so I don't give a Sith.
Very comfy and secure in various hand grips and the liner lock is one of the more reliable ones I've seen. That tends to be a common trend in Kershaws. Now if only I liked liner-locks and framelocks... ...Lockbacks rule! Bababooey Bababooey!
Um, well, what's the point of thinning out the edge and making it shinier than Ned Beatty' mouf? Cutting! Just got a bunch of cardboard boxes to send to a watery grave and the Blur made them into a bunch of 4"x6" rectangles with no detectable loss in sharpness (which is to be expected from SG-2 yet still commended).
Things I didn't like about the Blur were the lack of a 'safety' switch and lack of a flipper for using the Speedsafe assisted opening mechanism. Without those two features, I'd rather just use thumbpower. The initial edge could've been thinner, too, like on the Shun knives, but few people are walking around using kitchen knives as their EDC.
Out of the box, this knife had a robust decidely sharp edge. SG-2, as heat-treated by Kershaw, has a high hardness and high wear-resistance, so if you like the factory edge, you'll like it for a real long time. It also has a recurve so you can add more force to your cuts.
At the shoulder of the initial edge, it was about 0.022" thick from tip to ricasso. That's thinner than a lot of factory edges on 'tactical' knives. Still, if a Darksider sees a silk scarf sliced apart by merely falling on an edge, he or she will want to resharpen that edge or thin it out some more.
That's where the belt-sander came in! 40 grit closed-coat belt (thanks Gus and Bill!), 100 grit open coat belt, 160/45/16/6 micron Trizact belts, and a worn mylar belt loaded with 0.5 micron CrO/AO buffing compound made the bevel go higher up the blade and look oh so much shinier.
Now the bevel is 0.025" at its current shoulder, but 0.012" where the old one was and 0.006" right above the edge. Not Darksider-approved, but better than Ezra for my return to the beltsander, so I don't give a Sith.
Very comfy and secure in various hand grips and the liner lock is one of the more reliable ones I've seen. That tends to be a common trend in Kershaws. Now if only I liked liner-locks and framelocks... ...Lockbacks rule! Bababooey Bababooey!
Um, well, what's the point of thinning out the edge and making it shinier than Ned Beatty' mouf? Cutting! Just got a bunch of cardboard boxes to send to a watery grave and the Blur made them into a bunch of 4"x6" rectangles with no detectable loss in sharpness (which is to be expected from SG-2 yet still commended).
Things I didn't like about the Blur were the lack of a 'safety' switch and lack of a flipper for using the Speedsafe assisted opening mechanism. Without those two features, I'd rather just use thumbpower. The initial edge could've been thinner, too, like on the Shun knives, but few people are walking around using kitchen knives as their EDC.
It pwn'd cardboard with no issues, but got hoisted by its own petard slicing up a soda bottle. Had that happen much worse with VG-10 and almost the same with 13C26, but that happens. My buddy chipped a BG-42 Sebby doing the same. The plus side is that a microbevel may be applied with a $4 8000 grit slipstone.
A Fonzy moment, indeed.
thanks for the pic Thom
