Little knife tricks that work

Riz! said:
DO NOT hand your knife to non-knife-knuts when they ask “can I use your knife?”…

...instead ask them “what are you trying to cut?”…

No matter what they say, cut it for them!!!
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Flashback to a horror story.
I witnessed a guy hand his grandfather’s case pocket knife to another guy to “use”
The user instantly put the blade in a torch flame, which instantly turned the blade blue, which instantly enraged the owner.
Pain, is the great educator.
 
I wonder why he decided to sterilize the blade???
 
GmpaJim GmpaJim
I watched my dad spend a significant amount if time to sharpen his buck woodsman fixie to a hair whittling edge on a lansky. Later that day we go fishing and my uncle asks pops to use his knife to cut line. He cuts the line then squats down to re-tie his lure, cut the tag end off the line and then STABS THE BLADE INTO THE GROUND UP TO THE HANDLE!

My dad was like MIKE!! WTF???? He walks over pulls his knife from the dirt and finds multiple rock dings and rolls. He was so pissed! I thought he was gonna resharpen it with my uncle’s rib bones!
 
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Sharpening tip for tips. This is particularly useful for freehand sharpening. I got this from someone here - just can’t recall who.

If you have well-used and/or sharpened your knife once or twice and have found that your tip has rounded off and is no longer pointy:

A) use a coarse stone to grind the tip to shape by carefully and gently dragging the rounded edge at the tip area directly across/into the stone, (perpendicular to the stone - as if trying to lightly cut into the stone with the tip of the knife), with a tip-trailing motion.

B) grind/sharpen the tip as usual and it will be pointy again, automagically.

In my experience, grinding away the rounded portion of the tip quickly/completely in this way makes it much easier to get good tip geometry.

Also consider grinding away the ENTIRE APEX of a chipped/distressed edge rather than trying to slowly sharpen past the damage. Just go light, and try this on a practice knife or two before trying it with anything precious.
 
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Don't keep the factory edge. Even though it appears to be "razor" sharp when tested with cutting paper or hair, it performs worse compared to my seemingly not as sharp older knives. Maybe I slightly convex the edges (free-hand sharpening), or maybe there are micro burrs on the factory edges, I don't know.
 
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