lemme get this out of the way: i don't abuse my knives. that said, this thing's taken abuse. before bladeforums it never really occured to me that a knife should be a prying tool. i still haven't done that but i have used the rusty as a peg, impact device, chisel, and dropped it plenty of times. she'd been scraped up pretty bad, especially by my efforts to remove the evidence that it had been made like a khuk. the edge was blunt at the front quarter and rear third, as if it had the sweet spot of a khuk. took it to the stone and got the whole thing, save a half inch at the ricasso, sharp. this knife doesn't really have a ricasso, i'm thinking of drilling one in.
anyway, she looked awful so i decided the day had arrived for me to apply a satin finish. did a search on the forum and went with the graduated sandpaper method. started with 100 grit to get the scrapes out, then 210 to smooth that out, then straight to 600 grit for some shine. i've never used 600 grit paper before, had to go buy some, but that stuff's magical. it turned out way better than i expected. i was hoping for the finish to rank somewhere near 'less ugly than before' but it ended up ranking above 'pleasing to look at.'
anyway, this is now the knife with which i am most intimately acquainted. it ranks pretty high, at least within my top three. polyvalent hardware. handmade with old world craftsmanship from an exotic culture according to a historic design, a classy and comfortable horn handle, german steel for a sturdy beast in memory of two good men, sold to raise the standard of living in nepal, and personalized by and for me. how many knives can claim all that?
anyway, the sandpaper method works very well and the knife's cuttin great.
anyway, she looked awful so i decided the day had arrived for me to apply a satin finish. did a search on the forum and went with the graduated sandpaper method. started with 100 grit to get the scrapes out, then 210 to smooth that out, then straight to 600 grit for some shine. i've never used 600 grit paper before, had to go buy some, but that stuff's magical. it turned out way better than i expected. i was hoping for the finish to rank somewhere near 'less ugly than before' but it ended up ranking above 'pleasing to look at.'
anyway, this is now the knife with which i am most intimately acquainted. it ranks pretty high, at least within my top three. polyvalent hardware. handmade with old world craftsmanship from an exotic culture according to a historic design, a classy and comfortable horn handle, german steel for a sturdy beast in memory of two good men, sold to raise the standard of living in nepal, and personalized by and for me. how many knives can claim all that?
anyway, the sandpaper method works very well and the knife's cuttin great.
You get it.
