My yella Peanut just got some competition.

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spydutch

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Greetings you all,

At the beginning of this year I bought me a yellow handled Tiny Texas Toothpick.
When it arrived it had terrible blade wobble and very bad edges.
I succeeded in removing all wobble by gently hammering the pivot, but for the heck of it I wasn't able to put a shaving edge on it with my course waterstone and Spyderco Pocket Sharpener.

Out of frustration I tossed the knife in a drawer and hardly looked back until a few days ago.
I spend a good part of the day sharpening and I finally succeeded to get the little bugger as sharp as my Peanut.
It appeared I didn't keep the angle constant which I find difficult on such a small, slender blade.

Well I cut some thumb thick branches with it and it still shaves so I must have done a good job finally.

To be honest I like the toothpick slightly over my Peanut becuse of it being a single bladed knife(once European always European I guess LOL) and it doesn't roll in the pocket as much as my Peanut does.

I guess I just have a "new" EDC knife.

Just wanted to share.

Sorry for the bad lap top pic in bad light and thanx for reading


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i have a similar size knife made by queen cutlery, top center of the photo.

im still on the fence about mine. i like the size of it for a 'day off' type knife.
im at best a mediocre sharpener but still havent been able to get this one as sharp as other knives. also this knife has a funny sort of 'swale' on the edge side of the blade that makes it hard to sharpen evenly.
you may be on to something; i suspect im not getting a consistent angle on the narrow blade. did you have a trick to hold a consistent angle or did you just have to concentrate really hard? lol
 
Congratulations on the new cutter, it looks good.:thumbup: For a long time now, I've thought of the little toothpicks as mini Laguiole's. The toothpick, like a lot of things American, may have roots far back in soome European thing.

Little skinny blades do need a bit more concentration to sharpen than a "normal" size blade. I can put an edge on an Opinel number 7 in 30 seconds of honing. My peanut takes a minute or two on a 600 grit diamond hone. But my little Vic classic I have to really slow down and watch the angles very carefully. I had a little Boker 240 pen knife with rosewood handles, and I loved that knife, think of it as the one that got away that I regretted trading off. But it had a tiny little secondary pen blade that I always had a hard time getting as sharp as the main clip blade. I had to take it very slow, paying very close attention to the blade/stone angle.

But the little ones are so neat to carry. :)

Carl.
 
I've got several Case tiny toothpicks, and carry one in my watch/change pocket often.
 
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