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I recently got my first busse off the exchange. It is a BWM CF. When I got it I cut some paper which it did easily. I went to my dads and picked up some drift wood that he picks up at the lake. He planes it and my piece happened to be a 2x2 of some kind of hardwood. I took said piece and went outside to test the BWM. Chunks were flying and life was good. I didn't inspect the blade until I had chopped the wood in half. I was somewhat shocked at what I saw.
Now the first thing I did was go online to this forum and I saw several threads where people had posted that a new knife had done this doing something realatively easy. The common response to this was that sometimes factory edges do this and a good sharpening will bring out the virgin steel and all will be good.
So I spent several hours (I had to remove quite a bit of material and I kept checking under the microscope) to sharpen out the damage by hand. I don't have any power tools to do this.
Here she is all pretty again.
I hope to go out in the woods when it warms up a bit (we had several days of -30 to-40ish weather) and get some fat wood from a pine forest to give her another test.
This knife is razor sharp now and cuts phone book paper with no effort at all. It is so sharp in fact that I managed to cut myself when I moved my left hand up to hold the blade and show off my new edge to my better half. Right to the bone and I didn't even feel the cut. Surgical cut indeed.
And a mere 24 hours later (no I didn't get stitches, butterfly bandages work just fine for me) it is already healing very nicely. I have cut myself many times but never has it healed this well in such short a time. I guess if your going to cut yourself, do it with a sharp knife.
Oh and I asked the misses if I could shave her legs in the shower with the other misstress. She said no but she didn't sound as outraged as I thought she might. I think I might be able to convince her to let me do that one day.
Thanks for listening.
Now the first thing I did was go online to this forum and I saw several threads where people had posted that a new knife had done this doing something realatively easy. The common response to this was that sometimes factory edges do this and a good sharpening will bring out the virgin steel and all will be good.
So I spent several hours (I had to remove quite a bit of material and I kept checking under the microscope) to sharpen out the damage by hand. I don't have any power tools to do this.
Here she is all pretty again.
I hope to go out in the woods when it warms up a bit (we had several days of -30 to-40ish weather) and get some fat wood from a pine forest to give her another test.
This knife is razor sharp now and cuts phone book paper with no effort at all. It is so sharp in fact that I managed to cut myself when I moved my left hand up to hold the blade and show off my new edge to my better half. Right to the bone and I didn't even feel the cut. Surgical cut indeed.
And a mere 24 hours later (no I didn't get stitches, butterfly bandages work just fine for me) it is already healing very nicely. I have cut myself many times but never has it healed this well in such short a time. I guess if your going to cut yourself, do it with a sharp knife.
Oh and I asked the misses if I could shave her legs in the shower with the other misstress. She said no but she didn't sound as outraged as I thought she might. I think I might be able to convince her to let me do that one day.
Thanks for listening.
