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Case Peanut - Major sharpening issues
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Kind of funny how I discovered it had an edge too... After giving the pen blade some work on the brown stones, I was closing the blade thinking I was where I always seemed to be with it... no where, and then what do ya know, wham - right on the tip of the pinky.
Sliced a clean layer of skin off the tip. Luckily it wasn't deep (no blood this time). Then it passed the paper test!
Next up, the arm shaving test.... Then maybe even the hair whittling test in a few months/years.
- Ryan
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Glad some of my advice helped. If it makes you feel any better, I had to go through a similar learning phase so I am just trying to show you the path that I had already walked before you. Sharpening is not an inborn skill and takes practice, trial and error, and the occasional "aha!" moments as you go along.
I learned a lot by reading the sticky posts about it in the Maintenance, Tinkering, and Embellishments folder. And by lots and lots of trial and error. And by buying and trying various tools and stones. The best spend you can make is a sharpie and a loupe, so that you can see what is happening to a blade as you are working on it. Quickly teaches you what is working and what isn't, and why.
The beauty of eventually mastering freehanding is that once your mind and hands grasp the concept (which is really quite simple- you are rubbing a piece of metal on a natural or man-made rock), you can get a good edge off of anything abrasive.
Nothing more satisfying than taking a really blunt or damaged knife (hopefully a friends) and using a few coffee cups (yes, I have different grit coffee cups) and some cardboard, handing them back a working edge in 5 minutes.
I learned a lot by reading the sticky posts about it in the Maintenance, Tinkering, and Embellishments folder. And by lots and lots of trial and error. And by buying and trying various tools and stones. The best spend you can make is a sharpie and a loupe, so that you can see what is happening to a blade as you are working on it. Quickly teaches you what is working and what isn't, and why.
The beauty of eventually mastering freehanding is that once your mind and hands grasp the concept (which is really quite simple- you are rubbing a piece of metal on a natural or man-made rock), you can get a good edge off of anything abrasive.
Nothing more satisfying than taking a really blunt or damaged knife (hopefully a friends) and using a few coffee cups (yes, I have different grit coffee cups) and some cardboard, handing them back a working edge in 5 minutes.
btb01
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Ryan, I'm glad to hear you got that peanut all fixed up! It can be so frustrating when you have an issue sharpening a particular knife and can't seem to figure out where you're going wrong. Good job sticking with it and figuring it out! :thumbup:
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Also funny? I guessed where this was headed before reading the rest of your post!
The "Peanut Pen Blade Pinky Snip SNAP" is almost a rite of passage, I think, with these small Case knives?
Thanks so much for sticking with it, for heeding the good advice you solicited (not as common-sense an outcome as one might hope!), and for the update.
Enjoy your knife, and the sharpening adventures ahead.
~ P.
