Outstanding sharpness of Dumpster Mutt!

nozh2002

nozh2002

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Best manufacturer sharpness I ever saw.

It just came today and because I have my test set up, I just check out of the box sharpness. It is:

40 +++++
50 +++++X+++++
60 ++++

This is better then Currahee 60g sharpness, which hold record from Febrary of this year. This blade was inspected by #47 - I am not sure is it the person who sharpened it? If so - very good job!or

As I understand this knives re made in same Busse factory so I feel like I should post this discovery here too. It is also nice to see such a dramatic improvement.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
I am sure I will be able to resharpen it to better sharpness. I do not think there are any knife steel which can not be sharpened.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Vassili could sharpen a stick of butter.:)

I haven't really started to explore the world of stropping, but just using light spine trailing strokes on a ceramic rod I've been able to get every knife I own to slice a hanging hair with a gentle stroke. INFI for me seems to take an even better edge such that it will push through a hanging hair with the blade edge no more than a millimeter away.
 
theonew said:
Vassili could sharpen a stick of butter.:)

I haven't really started to explore the world of stropping, but just using light spine trailing strokes on a ceramic rod I've been able to get every knife I own to slice a hanging hair with a gentle stroke. INFI for me seems to take an even better edge such that it will push through a hanging hair with the blly polish lade edge no more than a millimeter away.
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Try to polish edge with green rouge on thin leather and you will be able at least to cut hair without any stroke but from pulling it on the edge - if you are unlucky. But in general you will be able at least split the hair.

I am not sure about stropping... With 3-5 stropes you'll probably just make burr straight. I really polish edge giving same effort as for sharpening. And with $7.50 price tag for life supply of green rouge it is worse to try!

Thanks, Vassili.
 
nozh2002 said:
Try to polish edge with green rouge on thin leather and you will be able at least to cut hair without any stroke but from pulling it on the edge - if you are unlucky. But in general you will be able at least split the hair.

I am not sure about stropping... With 3-5 stropes you'll probably just make burr straight. I really polish edge giving same effort as for sharpening. And with $7.50 price tag for life supply of green rouge it is worse to try!

Thanks, Vassili.
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Vassili you're both an inspiration and a curse. It's not the $7.50 price tag that scares me, its feeding my obsession with ultra fine edges that I'm trying to set some boundaries to.
 
I use Flitz for polish. I don't know but I suspect it may be finer than the green rouge.

Maybe you have used both and can comment??

My DMLE cam in reasonably sharp, but I haven't met a factory edge i couldn't wait to hand-hone.
 
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