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When I started this project tonight, I did not intend it to be a cutting test, but due to some surprising happenings, that's just what it became.
My 2nd story apartment window has a street light directly outside...consequently, it's day light 24/7 in here. So I bought a lot of this thick black cardboardesque stuff, with the difference being there's foam inbetween the two construction paperish sides. It's about a cm wide.
Obviously, it's to be taped to the window...the difficulty is that the window is arched and curved in places (and in big ways) so I had to stencil it out and then cut out the parts, then tape them to the window.
In retrospect, I should have used scissors, but I didn't expect this stuff to be nearly so tough.
Okay, to business: the three knives used were the S30V Dodo, S30V Para and S30V Blue Bump. They were all three not too extremely sharp, although the spydercos were noticeably sharper than the Bump (which is still on its factory sharpening). People who have read my Bump review might remember I was rather dissapointed in the factory sharpness...I haven't gotten around to sharpening it yet, but there are some surprisingly results.
The first trimming was with the Dodo...it seemed like the obvious choice, given its blade shape. It's never let me down. I sank the tip into the top of the line I drew on the foam/cardboard and pulled...and...nothing...it took a huge amount of force to drag it along the line. I then went to sawing with the reverse s part of the blade, which was still a hassle but somewhat more successful.
I finished that trimming and decided to try the Para. The Para outperformed the dodo significantly, but there was still a shockingly high amount of force necessary to cut through it...I sawed through it.
After that trimming was done, I decided to see if life would be easier with the Bump. It's worth noting again that the Bump isn't especially sharp yet (noticeably less sharp than the other knives here) and so I didn't expect much. The Bump excelled here, even if it is vastly outperformed in hair shaving and paper slicing. It could be dragged through with a little less resistance than the para, but back and forth slicing went through it like nothing...I reason that it must be the huge recurve at work.
The Bump was used for the rest of the cutting with good success.
Update: I cut up some leftover scrap with three different knives: the VG10 Spyderfly, the AUS8 M16 (50/50) and SAK Cybertool.
The Spyderfly did reasonably well as long as you were cutting in the area of the false edge...at the base, it stopped as soon as it hit the broad spine of the blade.
The M16 was surprising...it's a reasonably thin blade, nice polished/tini finish, I expected it to work great. Unfortunately, it did horribly on the test...bound up almost immediately.
The SAK performed by far the best, thanks most probably to its tiny width and highly polished finish (probably confirming Cliff's hypothesis). Next time I have to do something similar, I'll just use my SAK.
My 2nd story apartment window has a street light directly outside...consequently, it's day light 24/7 in here. So I bought a lot of this thick black cardboardesque stuff, with the difference being there's foam inbetween the two construction paperish sides. It's about a cm wide.
Obviously, it's to be taped to the window...the difficulty is that the window is arched and curved in places (and in big ways) so I had to stencil it out and then cut out the parts, then tape them to the window.
In retrospect, I should have used scissors, but I didn't expect this stuff to be nearly so tough.
Okay, to business: the three knives used were the S30V Dodo, S30V Para and S30V Blue Bump. They were all three not too extremely sharp, although the spydercos were noticeably sharper than the Bump (which is still on its factory sharpening). People who have read my Bump review might remember I was rather dissapointed in the factory sharpness...I haven't gotten around to sharpening it yet, but there are some surprisingly results.
The first trimming was with the Dodo...it seemed like the obvious choice, given its blade shape. It's never let me down. I sank the tip into the top of the line I drew on the foam/cardboard and pulled...and...nothing...it took a huge amount of force to drag it along the line. I then went to sawing with the reverse s part of the blade, which was still a hassle but somewhat more successful.
I finished that trimming and decided to try the Para. The Para outperformed the dodo significantly, but there was still a shockingly high amount of force necessary to cut through it...I sawed through it.
After that trimming was done, I decided to see if life would be easier with the Bump. It's worth noting again that the Bump isn't especially sharp yet (noticeably less sharp than the other knives here) and so I didn't expect much. The Bump excelled here, even if it is vastly outperformed in hair shaving and paper slicing. It could be dragged through with a little less resistance than the para, but back and forth slicing went through it like nothing...I reason that it must be the huge recurve at work.
The Bump was used for the rest of the cutting with good success.
Update: I cut up some leftover scrap with three different knives: the VG10 Spyderfly, the AUS8 M16 (50/50) and SAK Cybertool.
The Spyderfly did reasonably well as long as you were cutting in the area of the false edge...at the base, it stopped as soon as it hit the broad spine of the blade.
The M16 was surprising...it's a reasonably thin blade, nice polished/tini finish, I expected it to work great. Unfortunately, it did horribly on the test...bound up almost immediately.
The SAK performed by far the best, thanks most probably to its tiny width and highly polished finish (probably confirming Cliff's hypothesis). Next time I have to do something similar, I'll just use my SAK.
