I like Big Snarks and I cannot lie

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Friday nights are no fun. I need to go to bed early as I get up at 4am for work Saturdays. Going to bed the same time as the kids with no chance to relax makes me grumpy
 
Well yesterday I was messing around with some blades and decided my KA-BAR 1211 needed a little bit of cleaning up. I had previously semi convexed out the edge at an attempt to push some more performance from the knife. So this time I got a little ambitious and decided to do a little more LOL. Basically I just convexed it much more aggressively.

Here is a decent shot I have of the edge beforehand. (on the left of course.)


And here it is after a little work on one of my stones and some stropping.


I also realize now that its hard to get a photo of what I did LOL. Hard to see but its just a gradual slope from flat to edge absolutely no shoulder. Basically the whole grind has been thinned and incorporated into the edge more effectively. Turned this thing into a straight razor and made it 10X more slicey. Chews through wood soooo much better now. Mind you it was not bad before, but its a lot better now.

Here are the two tools I used. One of my stones and my homemade strop.


Anyways, though yall might enjoy... SNARK!
 
iwouldhurtafly said:
Well yesterday I was messing around with some blades and decided my KA-BAR 1211 needed a little bit of cleaning up. I had previously semi convexed out the edge at an attempt to push some more performance from the knife. So this time I got a little ambitious and decided to do a little more LOL. Basically I just convexed it much more aggressively.

Here is a decent shot I have of the edge beforehand. (on the left of course.)


And here it is after a little work on one of my stones and some stropping.


I also realize now that its hard to get a photo of what I did LOL. Hard to see but its just a gradual slope from flat to edge absolutely no shoulder. Basically the whole grind has been thinned and incorporated into the edge more effectively. Turned this thing into a straight razor and made it 10X more slicey. Chews through wood soooo much better now. Mind you it was not bad before, but its a lot better now.

Here are the two tools I used. One of my stones and my homemade strop.


Anyways, though yall might enjoy... SNARK!
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Very cool.
 
A man walks into a bar one night. He goes up to the bar and asks for a beer.

"Certainly, sir, that'll be 1 cent."

"ONE CENT!" exclaimed the guy, the barman replied "Yes."

So the guy glances over at the menu, and he asks "Could I have a nice juicy T-Bone steak, with chips, peas, and a fried egg?"

"Certainly sir,"replies the bartender, but all that comes to real money."

"How much money?" inquires the guy. "4 cents", he replies.

"FOUR cents!" exclaims the guy. "Where's the Guy who owns this place?"

The barman replies, "Upstairs with my wife."

The guy says, "What's he doing with your wife?"

The bartender replies, "Same thing I'm doing to his business."
 
Day one at Blade is in da books. Didn't get to see even half of what's there but did get to meet a bunch of Beckerheads and other folks.
My brother scored two great knives at Busse. A very limited run, at this show only, Scrapyard 1111 with bronze finish and an S.O.B. with competition finish and tan G10 handles. His wallet is really gonna hurt tomorrow but he sure is happy tonight!

Not a lot of pics today but I'll do better tomorrow.
 
Thank yall! Taking a piece of steel and making it not only stupid sharp, but also making it cut well is extremely gratifying. So much fun.

LOL gotta share something that just happened. My wife and daughter are out on a mommy daughter date, so me and my son are hanging out. He is 22 months old. We were out on the back porch enjoying the evening. I was whittling a stick with a couple different knives I brought out to work with when he came up and stole the stick from me, found himself another stick and started whittling away... He would get this serious look on his face and intently focus on his work, then look up at me with a huge goofy smile. Absolutely cracked me up. I love my kiddos!
 
worldwood said:
A man walks into a bar one night. He goes up to the bar and asks for a beer.

"Certainly, sir, that'll be 1 cent."

"ONE CENT!" exclaimed the guy, the barman replied "Yes."

So the guy glances over at the menu, and he asks "Could I have a nice juicy T-Bone steak, with chips, peas, and a fried egg?"

"Certainly sir,"replies the bartender, but all that comes to real money."

"How much money?" inquires the guy. "4 cents", he replies.

"FOUR cents!" exclaims the guy. "Where's the Guy who owns this place?"

The barman replies, "Upstairs with my wife."

The guy says, "What's he doing with your wife?"

The bartender replies, "Same thing I'm doing to his business."
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HA! That was pretty good, I like that.
 
I watched a bunch of videos and looked around some more and I think I'm going to order a Lee Loadmaster kit. Looks like I'll be able to get setup for one caliber for $300 minus consumables. And I also need to build a bench.
 
bigghoss said:
I watched a bunch of videos and looked around some more and I think I'm going to order a Lee Loadmaster kit. Looks like I'll be able to get setup for one caliber for $300 minus consumables. And I also need to build a bench.
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That'll be the easy part, and which caliber are you aiming for Hoss?
 
Auraria said:
That'll be the easy part, and which caliber are you aiming for Hoss?
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For some reason the .45acp kit is about $20 cheaper than all the others, so I'll start there. I shoot most major calibers from .380acp up to .45-70gov so I'm going to eventually get setup for all of them. Not even sure I can do the larger rifle rounds on the loadmaster but I want to get a single stage for later when I get into long range accuracy anyway. Right now it's more about volume and economy so .45acp and then 9mm next. .357mag and .44mag after that and then 5.56 and 7.62x39 and eventually .30 carbine. I'd like to get a 10mm one day too. I can easily go through 300 rounds or more of ammo in one range trip and I try to go every weekend. And since .22lr is almost impossible to get and isn't dirt cheap anymore I have to start rolling my own.
 
bigghoss said:
For some reason the .45acp kit is about $20 cheaper than all the others, so I'll start there. I shoot most major calibers from .380acp up to .45-70gov so I'm going to eventually get setup for all of them. Not even sure I can do the larger rifle rounds on the loadmaster but I want to get a single stage for later when I get into long range accuracy anyway. Right now it's more about volume and economy so .45acp and then 9mm next. .357mag and .44mag after that and then 5.56 and 7.62x39 and eventually .30 carbine. I'd like to get a 10mm one day too. I can easily go through 300 rounds or more of ammo in one range trip and I try to go every weekend. And since .22lr is almost impossible to get and isn't dirt cheap anymore I have to start rolling my own.
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Wow loading .22, never thought I'd hear that.
And you have a .45-70 gov?!
 
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