How NOT To Shave Arm Hair!!!!!

Hehehe Angle wasn't quite right there Jerry. Good edge on the blade though. Some blade makers use to bleed on their work to bless them. So thanks for the blessings :D


Now lets clean that up and quit ruining gloves. There expensive.
 
Your Welcome, alway happy to be of help (cause I'm usually the problem, it's a nice change of pace) :D .
 
As a mental health professional, I feel that this self injury is of great concern and must detain you until further notice. Pack up your grinder and come here to Washington. I will observe you carefully in the shop and make a determination. Of course all of your "arts and crafts" projects must be left behind when I release you. You know to motivate others..... yeah...thats the ticket.....
 
:D The first year I sold knives made by the BUSSE Combat Knife Co., I had to re-evaluate how I define 'shaving sharp'.

A small portion of the knives I received were not what I would refer to as shaving sharp.

Another small portion were not only shaving sharp, but using a push cut, would not differentiate between hair and arm, and in fact were only safe to shave with if suspended above the skin where they could safely cut through the hair without actually coming into contact with my skin.:o

I have seen many people pick a knife up off of the show table and shave with it before I could stop them.
Some of them would use a slight slicing action because, I suppose, the knives that they were used to would not push cut and shave hair.

Some of these people I simply directed to see their personal physician, and some I suggested should go directly to the emergency room while applying direct pressure.

It was Jerry who taught me to either use just the back of my nail, or to cut through (once again in a push cut) the skin from a callous as opposed to shaving in order to determine knife sharpness.

Alas, I was not always smart enough. I have a fine line on my arm neither quite so deep, or quite so wide as the one in the above picture, relating to my doing what Jerry told me, which was stop the customer from shaving his arm, and if the customer absolutely insists on a shaving test, to do it to myself. :o

Some of these knives are amazingly sharp.
 
I once wiped a knife across my chest on my t-shirt front. I forgot it had a fully sharpened top edge. I looked down and was surprised to see a six inch cut in the shirt. I was even more surprised to see my white shirt start to turn red. It was so sharp I didn't even feel it.
 
Jerry Busse said:
I had to stop grinding because my glove started to fill up!!!
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Had that happen once on a construction site. Looked down at my glove overflowing with blood.

Hmmm.... now where did that come from? :eek:
 
Welp...there's an instant collectors item......(spoken in a southern drawl) "this here knife has jerrys' blood"............etc, etc. Document that thong...it'll sell for thousands!:D
 
If you play with knives you will eventually get cut. I have one BM that is a custom shop model that is so sharp I am afraid to scrape the edge like I do with other knives.

The edge that Justin put on my 8" PBF is just as sharp, like a Razor. INFI takes an awesome edge.
 
I AIN'T GOT TIME TO BLEED !....................

Jerry........didn't you put a baseball bat sized bolt thru your hand a few years back ?...........while making my orig BM.

wade from new orleans
 
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