Hartsfield?

[JParanee]

MMM_____________ glad to see you are not wasteing your money on video games good for you

 

[Lycosa]

I Second that!! High-Sign.

 

[Kevin Jones]

I'm sure the direction of the belt makes it somehow superior

be the same as sharpening edge up or edge down.

That's what I was thinking.

 

[bluejaunte]

That's what I was thinking.

You're forgetting the magical pixie dust!

 

[SShepherd]

maybe his grinder is actually upside down

 

[Keith Montgomery]

I'm sure it's just a way to sharpen that he has found that works best for him.

 

[Lycosa]

Whatever works, is correct. Like a Titanium hammer!!

 

[mmmotorcycle]

MMM_____________ glad to see you are not wasteing your money on video games good for you

I tend to enjoy real objects more than fanciful worlds. Thanks! :thumbup:

 

[Buffalohump]

Personally I'd rather own one of RJ Martin's Japanese blades...

Talk about an object of desire...

 

[Lycosa]

Just no secondary edge on the RJ!!

 

[Leu Custom]

I thought RJ's had some sort of appleseed edge. (no idea what that actually means!) Maybe RJ will chime in and explain this!

 

[roughedges]

If you look at an appleseed from the side you can see that it kind of gently curves down to a point. From my understanding, an appleseed edge is basically a thin convex and always a heck of a cutter.

 

[Lycosa]

The Apple Seed is the Japanese Hira-zukuri style blade. Many Tantos were made this way.

 

[Leu Custom]

No man! We're talking edges not the shape Lycosa! LOL.

So the appleseed is a sharp sucka eh?

 

[Lycosa]

OK---Show me an apple seed edge.

 

[roughedges]

I had to look up the term but I do think that the hira-zukuri looks like an apple seed to me. However, I don't thinnk that all apple seed edged knives are hira-zukuri.


The guy who taught me the term had made a double edged dagger, complete with center ridge line and all that. When I looked at it and said "convex grind?" he told me that he didn't know what that meant and that it had an appleseed edge.

 

[Lycosa]

Correct, not All. The apple seed is basically a convex grind or shape.

 

[roughedges]

Yes, I know it is correct. I mentioned it because this statement:

The Apple Seed is the Japanese Hira-zukuri style blade.

makes it appear that they are one and the same when that is not actually the case.


Leu: This may or may not be entirely accurate but I have always thought of the appleseed edge as just being a very thin convex. Makes for one nice slicer too. I bet a lot of makers fashion knives with this sort of edge even if they don't use the same term.

 

[Trace Rinaldi]

I would second RJ's Japanese stuff. Before I made knives I thought PH blades were cool, once I knew a bit more about knives I thought RJ's stuff was much nicer, at a better price. Not a slam, just a personal opinion.;-)

 

[severedthumbs]

like one memner said about PH's stuff, "I havent seen quality like that since Ole Hickory!" lol bwwwwhahahaha it is so true