Emerson blades chip a lot?

that's what I was thinking, the higher end steels are more likely to chip and be more brittle than the lower end stuff. The lower end stuff will absorb impact better and will bend instead of break.
 
It also won't cut as well. :)

It's all trade-offs. If you want slicers or you want choppers. Different steels and heat treating are appropriate to different projected uses. That's basic.

What we need to know here is, will the Emersons, once properly sharpened and broken in, serve as general purpose every day use knives. I know they can, but any individual blade on a factory production line can be defective compared to the expected performance of that model.
 
QUIT bashing Hartsfield- Leu. Your knives won't cut an onion!!! LOL. I can't remember more knife abuse then what is going on now. It just does'nt make sense. But to each their own. I was taught to respect my tools and I still do. Hitting metal poles and chopping concrete???
Lycosa
 
Hitting metal poles ... gaahhh ...

I was out for a walk one evening and a branch brushed my face. I whipped out my Spyderco Military, and slash! sliced the little branch right off. Unfortunately, the tree was right next to a sign pole and the blade banged off the metal of the pole. :(

When I got home, sure enough, there was a flat spot about half an inch long on the blade. Took a few swipes on the Sharpmaker and all is well again.

Accidents happen! My knives are made of steel! They can take it! :)
 
I do not Bash. :) I simply tell the truth of what I have heard from the knifemaker himself. My blades will melt an onion :D

I've repeatly bashed a knife I made into an anvil and it gets little edge chips as well.
 
Leu,
Do you mean pieces of metal actually chip out or fold over or both? Maybe, a-hem, Busse got some'thin there with that INFI! Where's an onion?!
Lycosa
 
I was using a P-SARK the other day to cut off old sealer and some new that was applied just that evening but had set up. This was around trim boards and windows that were not properly insulated so we were using that expanding foam insualtion to get into the nooks real good. Stuff worked but ended up expanding clean out in plain view so it required some trimming off of the excess that swelled out there.

During the cutting I hit a few staples with the edge of that chisel grind blade. It cut the staples in half but it did ding up the edge. Chisel grind will be thinner at the edge making for very effective and aggressive almost light saber easy slicing through most mediums. So the edge can be weaker but the cross sectional mass of the blade will actually be thicker so its a stronger blade and will most likely stand up to lateral stresses better than some other full grind type traditional V grind blades. Its a trade off.

I have never had a user I haven't nicked the edge up on. It happens. Goes with the territory.

STR
 
Lycosa said:
Leu,
Do you mean pieces of metal actually chip out or fold over or both? Maybe, a-hem, Busse got some'thin there with that INFI! Where's an onion?!
Lycosa
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I mean depending on how hard I temper it, it will actually chip out.

Esav Benyamin said:
No, Lycosa, he means the anvil gets little edge chips ... :D
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well it's not actually an anvil, but the flat part of a vise where you can hammer on, so i guess you could call it an anvil sorta...and yes, that part will chip out too Esav. :D
 
Esav- I'm gonna drop an anvil on your toes! Leu- Back to the grinder! I'm gonna get a six-pack! Later.
Lycosa
 
I've never chipped an edge on an Emerson, but I did melt one.


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J,
What did you do, use a blow-torch? Or grind the hell out of it! Hope you got another one!
Lycosa
 
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