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Crag the Brewer said:
Stupid question..... How does California have negative 20?
Are you super high up in some mountains? Wow!

-20 is pretty cold for me, Here, even... I think we are going to be 10 degrees warmer on Tuesday or Wednesday

Usually only a few days of That cold are what we get each season.
-30 and colder is Scary!
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Pretty sure he's at his place in Wyoming now!!😂
 
Crag the Brewer said:
Stupid question..... How does California have negative 20?
Are you super high up in some mountains? Wow!

-20 is pretty cold for me, Here, even... I think we are going to be 10 degrees warmer on Tuesday or Wednesday

Usually only a few days of That cold are what we get each season.
-30 and colder is Scary!
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In WY for a month, Crag. About 50 mls East of Yellowstone.
 
ferider said:
We are supposed to have -20F tomorrow. Some snow, but not much yet.
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Where I used to live got cold, as low as -60. Eye lids start sticking, any moisture exposed freezes on the body, wet clothes are stiff. Cow would drink 5 gallons of water id have to walk down to it on the spot. All exposed water freezes ridiculously fast. If the animals didnt drink it, it would freeze over so thick they couldnt break the ice. Even water warmers struggled or couldn't work effectively.

Truth be told I dont much mind the cold or snow, it's the road salt and overcast I despise.
 
Spyderco AEB-L Mule ---

I lowered the edge angle to 8 degrees per side and finished the apex with a 15 degrees per side micro-bevel. Lots of work here in cleaning up the factory edge grind and taking the edge all the way back to the plunge line. This is a common complaint on Spyderco's that the edge stops a small fraction of an inch before the plunge line. Here I've eliminated that unsharpened blade section and taken it straight back to the plunge. Not really adding anything functionally but maybe a few extra millimeters of edge but makes sharpening easier in my experience along with just looking cleaner overall.

Regarding the choice of edge angles, this is where you need the edge to be if you want cutting ability to be quite high on a knife. The apex bevel stabilizes the apex while allowing a keen edge that is very quick to touch up by simply grinding on the micro-bevel = less grinding. Side benefit, edge retention increases dramatically with even a couple of degrees per side of the edge angle being lowered. This is counter-intuitive but basically as the edge angle drops the steel thickens up behind the apex much more slowly. Therefore you get much more use of the knife before you get into thick enough steel for the edge to be called 'dull'.

Side note --- this knife is also up for sale in the Fixed Blade section of the exchange if you'd like to see for yourself how all this plays out in real world use .... :)



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Father & Son Traditional Sharpening said:
Spyderco AEB-L Mule ---

I lowered the edge angle to 8 degrees per side and finished the apex with a 15 degrees per side micro-bevel. Lots of work here in cleaning up the factory edge grind and taking the edge all the way back to the plunge line. This is a common complaint on Spyderco's that the edge stops a small fraction of an inch before the plunge line. Here I've eliminated that unsharpened blade section and taken it straight back to the plunge. Not really adding anything functionally but maybe a few extra millimeters of edge but makes sharpening easier in my experience along with just looking cleaner overall.

Regarding the choice of edge angles, this is where you need the edge to be if you want cutting ability to be quite high on a knife. The apex bevel stabilizes the apex while allowing a keen edge that is very quick to touch up by simply grinding on the micro-bevel = less grinding. Side benefit, edge retention increases dramatically with even a couple of degrees per side of the edge angle being lowered. This is counter-intuitive but basically as the edge angle drops the steel thickens up behind the apex much more slowly. Therefore you get much more use of the knife before you get into thick enough steel for the edge to be called 'dull'.

Side note --- this knife is also up for sale in the Fixed Blade section of the exchange if you'd like to see for yourself how all this plays out in real world use .... :)



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My CRK Small Sebenza and Hinderer XM-18 still have great edges on them since you sharpened them for me last year, and all I've needed was to strop occasionally with some diamond spray on the paddle since then.
 
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Thank you! Not sure about the snake, pic was taken in TN, I believe. Good knife for survivalizin'! 🤣🤣

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justjed said:
Prairie king snake? They don't morph, and keep that lovely chocolate brown in their blotches for life. Beautiful!

The knife ain't bad, either.....
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RokJok said:
Spyderco Mule in RWL34, Kabar Becker (Eskabar I think), Carter Muteki wharncliffe
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I like the mod you did the reduce the guard and the spine around the Spydie hole. I've thought about doing something similar and now I may just have to do that since it's a 'thing' apparentlly and I'm not the only one thinking it lol. Did you do this yourself?
 
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