Dullmakers??

cutting the poly net on dirty ton buns [ 900 lb. hay bales]. the muddy poly will dull a knife in less than 2 minutes. zdp, 1095 & vg10---dennis
 
Dennis, my hubby broke 2 Buck knives cutting poly twine. My crew used one of my knives to cut roots, took my hubby some time to get the edge back. That's why I keep Moras and Marttiinis in my truck. Hubby saw a guy cut up a fish on a rock with a fillet knife, lots of chips in that blade.
 
Tony8179 said:
After years of practice, I finally have my wire stripping skills down to a science. I can strip any size wire evenly and consistently without chipping my edge, but any knife will still dull while you're stripping the wire. Not much you can do about that.
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You know I probably could be careful enough to strip it without chipping but I'd be so much slower. Easier for me to just sharpen the chips out afterwards. I got about 1000lbs worth of 1/4-1inch copper to strip right now. I do about 100lbs an hr I'd say
 
xmtgx said:
You know I probably could be careful enough to strip it without chipping but I'd be so much slower. Easier for me to just sharpen the chips out afterwards. I got about 1000lbs worth of 1/4-1inch copper to strip right now. I do about 100lbs an hr I'd say
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1000 lbs of scrap copper wire?! I wish I was working where you're working. :D

I find that wharncliffe blades work best for stripping copper wire. If you can get a wharncliffe blade with a right hand chisel grind (if you're right handed of course) then you are ready to rock and roll. That combination will strip wire all day without having to worry about nicks or resharpening.

Here's my wire stripping knife. O-1 steel with ash scales. It's actually a splicing knife that was made for me by a fellow knife knut as a secret santa gift because he knows I'm an electrician. This thing kicks wire's ass. It's not chisel ground, but it has a sick convex edge on it.

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I saw a cinder block ruin a few edges on one of those lame youtube knife destruction tests by a couple of masked clowns acting all serious like they were performing a ritual or ceremony or something :D So I learned something watching them - stay away from cutting cinder blocks with your best knives :)
 
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Tony8179 said:
1000 lbs of scrap copper wire?! I wish I was working where you're working. :D
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Oh thats purty. And I do want me a warncliffe perhaps after I sell some of this copper. It's my dads, hes an foreman electrician and takes all the scraps at all the jobs hes at. Gives it to me to strip it and gives me 1/3 of the cash when he takes it to the scrapyard.
 
If you take the critter through the car wash with the top down, it gets rid of some of the mud.
 
Sandpaper. And I lent a cook a chef knife and I found him carving fillet on
THE STEEL HOT PLATE instead of on the adjacent wooden board
I could have k@###d him. A beautiful hand polished 12k grit blade destroyed.
 
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