Cutting cigars... rolling my edges?

Very strange. I just snipped a cuban right now and no rolled edge here.
(Three cigar cutters and I still use my EDC's for the most part)
Only thing I can think of......... Buy better cigars?
 
I am not talking about huge rolled edge or anything like that. I am just talking about holding the edge directly under a 100 watt light and looking for tiny specs of reflection.. like I said dust sized glints. You will not be able to see them with a room light that is 9'-0" high on the ceiling, the light needs to be right above you, like head high. I guess I see them because my work bench has a light that high and that is where I work on all my stuff and I can see little glints. No one in there right mind will notice it I guess except me. But... cutting slivers of hickory doesn't do anything like that, lol.

5 Vegas A cigars are some good cigars. I love those things. They aren't the most expensive cigars you can get, but man they are yummy.

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a chemist friend of mine did a test on cigars & found sawdust, sand , cloth & other goodies. also the purest of the ones tested were not always the most expensive. sounds like another area formites could explore.
dennis
 
using a belt sander can easy over heat the edge and you would never feel it with your finger
when i sharpen with my grinder i cut the speed by half and run my belts wet

if i need a truely sharp knife i use water stones
 
butcher_block said:
using a belt sander can easy over heat the edge and you would never feel it with your finger
when i sharpen with my grinder i cut the speed by half and run my belts wet

if i need a truely sharp knife i use water stones
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Goes to what I posted earlier. :thumbup:
 
butcher_block said:
using a belt sander can easy over heat the edge and you would never feel it with your finger
when i sharpen with my grinder i cut the speed by half and run my belts wet

if i need a truely sharp knife i use water stones
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I understand this and my passes are not slow. I know how an over heated edge acts, I did it when I first started sharpening on a belt sander years ago. Some places add gun-cote to knives and they do it after the knife is heat treated. Gun-cote bakes on at 350 degrees and this is below the tempering of the steel, and I know I would be able to feel that on the edge of the knife. I am not get any edge rolls when cutting hickory and cardboard (and a lot of it.) or your other typical material through out the day, but when I cut cigars, then appears the small glints that I am speaking of. Also I tried a knife that I only sharpen with a lansky system at 20 degrees (per side) and mirror finished that edge also. No heat to speak of. It too had the same edge glints I described. Again, not a huge run of rolled edge, but small particle, dust sizes glints along the edge that cut the cigar.

The person above confirmed what I thought. I thought there may be little particles of sand in there that perhaps form the little glints of reflections after cutting the cigar.
 
butcher_block said:
Ok

test in corrugated cardboard too as thats hard on the edges

im jsut tossing out thoughts
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Thanks, I understand and appreciate it. I should perhaps rephrase and say that out of all materials I cut... except wiring or when I slip up and hit concrete or another piece of metal (Which will give me a huge glint) that it is peculiar that cigars will put dust sized dings on the edge and other things won't. I was thinking "Why is it doing this if it is just leaves rolled up really tight." But figured that there was impurities in the cigars and was wondering if anyone else noticed. Maybe it is just the brand of cigars I am smoking.... but I will keep them around as I like them and don't smoke very often anyways.. maybe once a month.
 
I have cut many cigars with all my folders - none have rolled.

BUT,then again I do smoke high end stuff !.
 
Used my buck 302 to cut a JdN Antano churchill friday night, and SAK executive to cut a partagas black saturday, no edge rolls as of yet.
 
Incahiker said:
I am not talking about huge rolled edge or anything like that. I am just talking about holding the edge directly under a 100 watt light and looking for tiny specs of reflection.. like I said dust sized glints. You will not be able to see them with a room light that is 9'-0" high on the ceiling, the light needs to be right above you, like head high. I guess I see them because my work bench has a light that high and that is where I work on all my stuff and I can see little glints. No one in there right mind will notice it I guess except me. But... cutting slivers of hickory doesn't do anything like that, lol.

5 Vegas A cigars are some good cigars. I love those things. They aren't the most expensive cigars you can get, but man they are yummy.

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tell ya bro

I will GLADLY volunteer to check the edges of one of my knives against one or two of those cigars...

To keep it simple, I will need YOU to donate the cigars...I will donate the knife:D
 
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