New and Improved Wooden Knives 3x Sharper than Steel, It's SCIENCE!!

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Here's a don't miss article every knife maker should read. Let's here your thoughts.
 
Very funny. Sounds like they're just trying to put a new marketing spin on stabilized (or more likely resin impregnated) wood. I'd love to know how they're quantifying "3x sharper than steel".

3x what? How sharp was the steel base knife? What about edge toughness and durability?

They're trying to market hardened wood as a renewable alternative... how renewable are the hardening chemicals? Steel is 100% recyclable and will almost certainly last longer. Who knows, maybe wooden knives are the next big niche in custom knife making.
 
Well… they’re “table knives”, not kitchen knives per se.

ie the utensils you put out next to the plate :)
Not exactly the same as a steel kitchen knife, stainless or otherwise.

Wooden salad forks work fine :)
 
Lucky me , some day ago I decide to make grinder specifically for wood and to keep it outside of shop 🤣🤣 Give me that hard wood 😡 is it tempered already or i need to make another oven just for tempering wood 😀
As always I start build backwards from wheels .............😉
 
I am an alumnus of UMD and read about this in the engineering magazine they send out a few times a year. The performance isn't there. The headline writers are over selling a new technology. Geometry alone makes steel superior in actual cutting. This could be the next big thing, but not yet.
 
Which wood would be good for knife like this one ?

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Natlek said:
Lucky me , some day ago I decide to make grinder specifically for wood and to keep it outside of shop 🤣🤣 Give me that hard wood 😡 is it tempered already or i need to make another oven just for tempering wood 😀
As always I start build backwards from wheels .............😉
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I have such grinder only for handles. It uses 1200x50 belts , has 2 wheels and it's most important feature - it can be covered with plastic barrel :D now my shop is cleaner but in winter it's a bit hard to use.
 
I think you can make anything sharper than these.il_1588xN.2410562580_f9ji.jpg
 
Scott Hanson said:
I think you can make anything sharper than these.
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There was an older fellow who had a table next to me at the Oregon Knife Collectors show in Eugene for several years. He took old tale knives like those, pulled the blades out, reshaped and sharpened them. He put them in wooden handles and sold them for $10.00 ea. I bet he sold more than a hundred each show.
 
Jesse Latham said:
There was an older fellow who had a table next to me at the Oregon Knife Collectors show in Eugene for several years. He took old tale knives like those, pulled the blades out, reshaped and sharpened them. He put them in wooden handles and sold them for $10.00 ea. I bet he sold more than a hundred each show.
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I wouldn't think the steel in the blades would be worth putting any time into, polishing the handles up and putting in a high quality blade into the handle might be kinda neat.
 
Dimitar Popov said:
I have such grinder only for handles. It uses 1200x50 belts , has 2 wheels and it's most important feature - it can be covered with plastic barrel :D now my shop is cleaner but in winter it's a bit hard to use.
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I don't know how I didn't think of it before . Grinding wood inside the shop is a crazy thing to do.
Tomorrow I will finish the work rest for this disc grinder and it goes outside shop together with other one with soft disk , also just for grinding wood.
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