I think I had a burned temper!

[dkb45]

I have had my 801 for a little while now, and it has barely cut a thing. Mainly just paper while stropping, and a few packages. Recently I went over to a buddy's house to make some stuff that required a mild amount of foam cutting. All of my cutting was on the tip, and I noticed the cutting getting significantly worse as I went on.

Cut to me getting home and doing my daily stropping... The tip of the damn 801 won't push cut paper. It was shaving sharp when I left! There was no wire edge, no burr, just a slightly uneven factory grind (it came sharp enough, so it was just stropped). Some foam seriously killed my edge!

Cut to yesterday I decided to finally sharpen it. I grab my Micro Mesh cushioned files and get to work. I grab my belt sander cleaner to clean the surfaces off, and over the next hour or two work through all the grits. Now I think I have a much better edge, both sharper and no ruined HT. I'm kind of a afraid to test it now that I put all that time in, though.

 

[I.N.F.K]

I cut a large empty can of mineral spirits to make a wood burning stove out of and my ZT 0350's edge held up fine. But when I cut a can of soda at work to count fresh ones it did a lot more damage to the edge. Funny how certain objects that you don't expect too be all that tough turn out to be the worse.

 

[Jason B.]

Foam will dull a edge fairly quick. I highly doubt you had a burnt edge or whatever problem people say elmax has.

I used a hammer to pound the edge of my endura through metal corner bead used for drywall today. Also used it to make cuts in drywall to fit the area of repair.

Here is the extent of the damage after what you could easily consider abusive use.
This is the spot that was beat with a hammer through the edge of the corner bead.


Here is the tip from scouring drywall.


And the corner.

 

[dkb45]

My 801 did have a lot of discoloring on the tip and the edge. That is a big reason why I'm thinking it was a burned temper.

The foam I cut was standard 1" wall Thermocell (pipe insulation) and 2 pound density 1/2" polyethylene (floor mats). I also cut a good deal of packing and electrical tape, but I'm pretty sure I got all the gunk off.