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Normal, brand new ties w/o touching any other material other than a little dirt.When a knife gets dull . . next stop is the sharpening stone.
Seriously though it is hard for us to judge this. How big were the ties ? How dirty were they? Did you just once over shoot and run across some other material that was hard enough to dull the edge?
Personally I avoid ties with my knives and use mini diagonal cutters.
Dirt is death. It will dull most edges quickly. Hard zip ties and a factory edge and dirt equals a dull knife.Normal, brand new ties w/o touching any other material other than a little dirt.
Personally, I think ALL youtube "intermet expert" knife reviews should feature dicing zip ties on a bench top, and pull cuts, as one of the harshest tests there are in testing knives...
Depends on what the zip ties are made from. From what I understand not all zip ties are made the same. So, yes, it could be that some zip ties reek havoc on blade edges. That’s why I don’t use my knife on zip ties.
Also, some smaller zip ties have a strand of cable embedded and when you use your knife to cut it with, you flatten some of your knife edge and curse like a sailor. Ask me how I know.That’s why I do not use a knife to cut zip ties.
I cut a lot of zip ties with my knives and have dialed my technique into a science.
The knife has to be super sharp and I have to be sure I can make a controlled cut. If I can't be sure of that controlled cut then the snips come out.
Yeah I was just fixing the roof on my rustic snowblower port and had to haywire and zap strap the roof to the poles while replacing hardware. When it was time to pull it all off I reached for the knife in my pocket and stopped myself. Sure I could have twist cut the zaps off since they were under tension but instead I used the cutters even though they meant an extra trip up and down the ladder.Wire cutters.