Can we talk? Pictures of knives on rocks and other abrasive surfaces.

[Kwon Kwang]

Reminded me once again why I don't like coated blades.....

Interesting how that happens to be the very reason why I do like them. Well, one of them, anyway...

 

[Czechmate]

That will buff right out.

Good ole' elbow grease. :thumbup:

That happens to knives the second I look at them. That's how survivo-tacto-hard use-o-awesome I am. Blade coatings just run away in fear.

LOL, that's the opposite of the Midas touch I guess; the Marcinek Stare... :thumbup: Turns hard use knives to dust.

Reminded me once again why I don't like coated blades.....

I'd rather have satin blades myself but these were too good of a deal to pass on. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:



Knife on abrasives :

Knife on de fence:

Knife on a press:

*Note: no knives were harmed during any of the above photos.

 

[brancron]

I've never caused a knife any harm by gently placing it on a rock or other hard surface for a photo. If I were to sell one I would disclose any and all visible scratches or other wear. But then again, from a buyer's/owner's perspective, I really don't care about knives being in perfect mint condition. They're chunks of sharpened steel, they're meant to absorb a little wear and tear.

The below are some examples of knives that have managed to survive the harrowing act of being placed down on a rocky surface, only to return to the softness of their resting cases unscathed:

 

[craytab]

^ruined.

 

[Icky Thump]

 

[craytab]

^also ruined.

 

[marcinek]

Actually, in all seriousness, I feel the same way about unboxing videos. Just watching those clods unboxing a knife! Ruined. No longer LNIB at that point.

 

[samuraistuart]

Quite often I will rest the knife I just made on a rock to snap a photo. With care, there is no issue at all. None whatsoever. Of course, I don't allow the edge to come into contact with a rock, and would never set a knife directly ON it's edge to take a photo. If for some reason a scratch did appear, it would not leave the shop without being fixed. That is just common sense anyway, regardless of the process of photo taking.

Yeah.......those knives posted above are simply ALL RUINED because they were laying on a rock. Oh no say it isn't so!!!! What has the world come to????? Knife makers taking photos of their knives on rocks!!!! Don't they know they can NEVER sell those knives that have kissed a rock? What's next??????? Who knows, they'll be laying their knives on DMT sharpening plates next!!!! Then they'll be ruined FOREVER!!!!

Are you people for real???? You actually think that a custom knife maker would let a knife leave their shop with scratches on it, regardless of what caused the scratches? You would actually NOT buy a knife from a guy who took a photo of his knife on a rock.....because you think it WILL get scratched.....and that the knife maker would just leave the scratches there?

For crying out loud, you hear it all here.

 

[Mossyhorn]

 

[Czechmate]

This knife was almost ruined by the file...

TUFF on sandpaper

This kydex sheet marked up my custom axe:

White poster board dang near ruined my Busse:

What's the consensus on knives stuck into things for photo opportunities?

 

[LEGION 12]

 

[The Aflac Duck]

Careful! It might cut through the saw

 

[Czechmate]

Careful! It might cut through the saw

You mean the saw might cut through the Spydie... :thumbup:


Also; chang saw chang!!!!

ZDP was never quite the same after this experience. You might say it's screwed up a bit... So punny. :foot:

 

[StryCoShaw]

To op, the idea occurred to me as well! You're not alone.

I'd like to add an even worse perpetrator: wedding bands and lanyard beads

Seen it mostly on youtube. Once it was some sort of mammoth and damascus sebenza. The feint sound of metal on metal awkwardly scraping together as his hands groped across every surface with that ring on..worse than nails on a chalkboard.

Also seen a beautiful William Henry gentleman's folder take a bashing by an oversized jewelry piece on the lanyard.

Really it's just an observation on how people have different standards of valuing personal property. It could also be a genuine big picture mentality that some people pride themselves in possessing. Some folk are just unaware of such a level of scrutiny even existing, finding it grating or laughable when exposed to it.

Personally I got into knives to scratch and slice shit up where guilt has nothing to do with using a tool, so i re-evaluated my collection. Still kept a shit load of safe queens

 

[LEGION 12]

Better ?

 

[The Aflac Duck]

Better ?

Careful! It might cut through the earth

 

[Leftytwogunz]

LMAO I love you guys.

Yea I mean if you trust the seller, and we generally do, its probably rarely a problem.

Guess I just cringe at the sight of it... LOOK AT THAT NEW FLAME ANO'D DALIBOR....ON A ROCK!

I thought your first post about this might have been a joke, I'm realizing that it wasn't.

So if a "mint condition" knife is not photographed on a soft surface you will not purchase it. Ok, noted.

 

[VanDammet]

OP - I get what you're saying, I really do, but I do disagree with you. Like a couple of guys have already said, if a knife maker is skilled & intelligent enough to make a ba-dass knife that you're interested in, I bet he's got what it takes to pull off a sweet rock pic without damaging what he just poured his soul into creating.

And if a maker like Stuart did scratch his knife during a rousing photo shoot, he'd simply finish it out before shipping - I'd have to conclude that you are overthinking things in this instance, but it's ok, it's not like you killed someone. Wait....you didn't, right?

 

[The Aflac Duck]

I thought your first post about this might have been a joke, I'm realizing that it wasn't.

So if a "mint condition" knife is not photographed on a soft surface you will not purchase it. Ok, noted.

I hope he doesn't see the video I just posted in the Rockstead thread. I was playing with like $5,000 in knives on a Travertine tile

 

[Leftytwogunz]

I am going to build a foam pit in one of my spare rooms like the X-games bike riders use to practice on, and that is where all future knife photography and use will occur from now on.