My First Opinel

Gotta love those lightweight scalpels... get the sharpest of all my knives with the least amount of effort :)
Just need a strop to keep it that way. Love my #6 carbon

Back in the days when it was new:
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I remember seeing a post or two about a month ago about Opinel knives and a month later I own five Opinel knives! I don't know why it took me so long to get one and now I can't get enough of them. Buying directly from Opinel USA is such a pleasure. Shipping is quick and cheap to Hawaii - free shipping if the order is over $50. I screwed up on what I wanted engraved on my initial order and they made the corrections fast and got my order off to me without any problems. I might just do a pre order for the snake wood model and wish the horn handle was available, too.
 
BladeScout said:
You need an Opinel to open that!
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I don't open packages with anything other than my opie now, I thought SAK's opened clamshells good, a thinned out convex opinel just glides through it like it's glowing red hot!

whetrock said:
I too, like most other enthusiast here, have a thing for Opinels. They represent a product that isn't overpriced in the least bit. As much as it pains me to say it, I have developed a proneness for their wonderful Inox, 12C27 Sandvik instead of the carbon, and it has been a favorite of mine for sometime, and I'm getting to were I can't feel any difference in edge retention between the two, but that's not saying much coming from me. As to sharpening, some may cringe, but I don't convex mine, and most I've seen from the factory, have a visible bevel, I just clamp them in the Lansky, and drop the edge to 20-25 degrees per side. Not rocket science, but it works for me.
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I have a little system, similar to the sharpmaker, two fine ceramic rods that store in the wooden handle and have to angled holes for them, I think its something like 20-25 degree edge. I use that for a quick microbevel and it makes short work with my opinel especially when I just have a ding or two on it and don't feel like doing the whole edge.

knoefz said:
Gotta love those lightweight scalpels... get the sharpest of all my knives with the least amount of effort :)
Just need a strop to keep it that way. Love my #6 carbon

Back in the days when it was new:
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Beautiful picture mate. I'm in love with my No. 6 and once my measly funds allow I WILL be picking up more of these wonderful tools.
Havalon Piranta, it IS a folding scalpel, uses scalpel blades. Cliff Stamp has been testing one recently.

Also thinking that this thread should be moved to the traditional forum, I didn't think it would stay alive this long, my threads normally die after a few posts lol. I think that is where it actually belongs to be honest. That is up to the mods discretion though, this is after all the general knife section so it still fits here.
 
Strigamort said:
Swoop, some of my Opi madness (in terms of taking it to a crazy thin edge) are here...

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1061719

The guys helping are some of the very best imo. :thumbup:
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Wow that was a pretty good read there. I actually had that same question about the strop stickiness floating in my head, I'm gonna try and clean it and see if that helps. I also figure that I don't want to go real thin with mine as it turned from a slicer to an edc pretty quick. I'm now back to carrying a larger quick drawing blade for "self defense" and what I mean by that is "I want a big tactical blade to open my mail really fast." Mine right now is floating around 10-15 per side convex with at the very moment a 25 ish micro bevel, I'm still in the realm of the softer steel at the edge I noticed today. When I sharpen and run the edge through a soft piece of wood to get any easy bur off I notice the edge becomes wobbly or comes off, and I'm sure my edge isn't too thin, or is it for the softer carbon steel they use? Maybe that is just that pesky wire edge who knows, no really who knows?
 
Swoop03 said:
I don't know, just when I see a stainless knife that is around 10 bucks I assume it to be cheap no name or poorly heat treat 440 but i also didn't know what steel they used. I do like the sandvik steels. My leek as the 14c28n and I've used the 13c27 I think it is and I love both. IMO a good bit better in edge retention than 8cr or aus 8 for around the same price. I will have to try their stainless before judging it further. I'll have to try the number 7, this one is a 6 and it is perfect, its got a 3" blade and almost a 1:1 blade handle ratio and does weigh nothing. I do wish it had just a touch more handle, I want to drill it and put a lanyard on it for my pinky to grip on.
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That's what's so great about opinels. So cheap you can try them all. :D

You'll like the SS opies, they sharpen easy and hold it well.
 
goodeyesniper said:
Unless you really like visiting the emergency room.
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I just thought you were a pirate...

I'll put more of mine in a minute, gotta finish uploading them, it'll take more like an hour with my internet but oh well. I got some really good ones, i got bored with my camera. I think there is an opinel thread in traditional knives, i'll post most of them there.

 
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NG VI said:
It's a terrible spoon
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That reminds me of an old anonymous poem:

"I eat my peas with honey,
I've done so all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
but it keeps them on the knife!"

:D
 
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