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My youngest son, nephew, and I went to watch those slimy Ducks beat up on our Dawgs yesterday. 😢 Although I am a self-proclaimed non-superstitious man, I threw a little 12th Man display together to ward off the evil spirits that sometimes haunt the NorthWest. GO HAWKS !
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EMCEE said:
My youngest son, nephew, and I went to watch those slimy Ducks beat up on our Dawgs yesterday. 😢 Although I am a self-proclaimed non-superstitious man, I threw a little 12th Man display together to ward off the evil spirits that sometimes haunt the NorthWest. GO HAWKS !
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As a lifelong Seahawks fan, and a (former) long time Seattleite, I very much enjoy image. Even though I work for the UO these days (I'm a Platypus myself, Duck undergrad and Beaver grad school).

But man, oh man, do I hate seeing the Big 10 merch. If I live to be a thousand, I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about the Ducks and the Huskies abandoning the Pac 12 (which should be the Pac 10). I grew up in Alaska, and I have lived in every Pacific Coast state and province (I mean, that's only five, it's not that many). I care deeply about the history of our West Coast rivalries. I do not care at all, in any way, about other regional college sports conferences, especially ones from the other side of the continent. I'm extra salty since the move has screwed up the 128-year tradition of the Ducks-Beavers games that were last interrupted by WWII. For the foreseeable future, I'll be rooting only for the Beavers, even though I have always enjoyed the Husky/Duck-Duck/Beaver-Beaver/Cougar-Husky/Cougar rivalry quadrangle. When I was younger I used to joke about wanting a Green and Yellow "W" shirt and a Purple and Gold "O" shirt (though out of affection for my many Husky friends and loved ones, I stopped attending the rivalry games since the two times I did attend seemed to be very bad luck for Husky QBs).

But Go Hawks! They are looking great this year (so much better than I expected).

And maybe someday I'll forgive the Ducks and Huskies enough to go back to wanting to cheer for them.
 
abbydaddy said:
As a lifelong Seahawks fan, and a (former) long time Seattleite, I very much enjoy image. Even though I work for the UO these days (I'm a Platypus myself, Duck undergrad and Beaver grad school).

But man, oh man, do I hate seeing the Big 10 merch. If I live to be a thousand, I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about the Ducks and the Huskies abandoning the Pac 12 (which should be the Pac 10). I grew up in Alaska, and I have lived in every Pacific Coast state and province (I mean, that's only five, it's not that many). I care deeply about the history of our West Coast rivalries. I do not care at all, in any way, about other regional college sports conferences, especially ones from the other side of the continent. I'm extra salty since the move has screwed up the 128-year tradition of the Ducks-Beavers games that were last interrupted by WWII. For the foreseeable future, I'll be rooting only for the Beavers, even though I have always enjoyed the Husky/Duck-Duck/Beaver-Beaver/Cougar-Husky/Cougar rivalry quadrangle. When I was younger I used to joke about wanting a Green and Yellow "W" shirt and a Purple and Gold "O" shirt (though out of affection for my many Husky friends and loved ones, I stopped attending the rivalry games since the two times I did attend seemed to be very bad luck for Husky QBs).

But Go Hawks! They are looking great this year (so much better than I expected).

And maybe someday I'll forgive the Ducks and Huskies enough to go back to wanting to cheer for them.
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Sixteen dollars for a beer at the game is what makes me mad. It makes the old day of seven dollars for a beer seem free.

I really miss the old Pac 12 too.

Goducks.
 
abbydaddy said:
As a lifelong Seahawks fan, and a (former) long time Seattleite, I very much enjoy image. Even though I work for the UO these days (I'm a Platypus myself, Duck undergrad and Beaver grad school).

But man, oh man, do I hate seeing the Big 10 merch. If I live to be a thousand, I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about the Ducks and the Huskies abandoning the Pac 12 (which should be the Pac 10). I grew up in Alaska, and I have lived in every Pacific Coast state and province (I mean, that's only five, it's not that many). I care deeply about the history of our West Coast rivalries. I do not care at all, in any way, about other regional college sports conferences, especially ones from the other side of the continent. I'm extra salty since the move has screwed up the 128-year tradition of the Ducks-Beavers games that were last interrupted by WWII. For the foreseeable future, I'll be rooting only for the Beavers, even though I have always enjoyed the Husky/Duck-Duck/Beaver-Beaver/Cougar-Husky/Cougar rivalry quadrangle. When I was younger I used to joke about wanting a Green and Yellow "W" shirt and a Purple and Gold "O" shirt (though out of affection for my many Husky friends and loved ones, I stopped attending the rivalry games since the two times I did attend seemed to be very bad luck for Husky QBs).

But Go Hawks! They are looking great this year (so much better than I expected).

And maybe someday I'll forgive the Ducks and Huskies enough to go back to wanting to cheer for them.
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Man I feel your pain ! They took tradition and the entire concept of regional competition and threw it right in the shitter ! Still, it was an enjoyable time with the youngsters. My favorite part of the game was looking down at the trough style urinal and realizing it was full of little rubber ducks. Now that’s tradition !!!
 
After I got an answer to one of my questions from Nathan the Machinist Nathan the Machinist
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I came here with one idea/question/just an experiment/question.
I know this is probably pretty basic/obvious, but I’m interested in the practical side of it.

I re-sharpened a Medium Chopper to 22 degrees, just because I’m experimenting with microscopy and brutal D3V tests.

And to be completely honest, even 20 degrees is an extremely durable edge angle.
But I went a bit further.

I don’t know all the details and terminology, but I’ve noticed something like a micro-bevel on knives before.
At least in photos of knives, or on some of mine — it was there, I just never paid attention to it.

I couldn’t find precise information about the exact angle people usually set for a micro-bevel (maybe it’s called something else).
I made a micro-bevel at 1500 grit, set to 26 degrees.
The main apex is still at 22 degrees.

In theory, since 1500 grit doesn’t remove a lot of metal, this should make the very edge stronger/more durable, right?

I really need advice/your thoughts on this.

I formed and sharpened the edge at 22 DPS — nothing clever here.
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Another one of the steps was using a softer/finer grit value.
Burr minimization
This is 650 grit.
And you know what — the Chopper is insanely sharp at this grit level, even if I stopped right there and did nothing more.


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Here I set the angle to 26 degrees and work with a 1500-grit abrasive.
This creates what I’m calling a micro-bevel, though some might say it’s a double-bevel.
To be honest, I couldn’t find any definitive information on this, and it feels like people mostly just call it whatever they want.
In short, the main thing is that you can clearly see the transition — so to speak — on the cutting edge; this kind of geometry appears.

I sharpen knives quite a lot, but I’ve never really experimented specifically with this before.
Though I did notice that on Carothers knives, it looks like this is done from the factory.
And when I used to re-sharpen them in the past, I didn’t even pay much attention to it — I just made a regular V-edge.


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Here’s how the polishing of that tiny edge at 26 degrees looked in the end — I just zoomed the microscope in even closer.

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Here’s what the sharpness looks like in practice.
It’s damn insanely sharp, even though I set the main edge to 22 DPS
and then added a micro-bevel at 26 degrees.


And now the question!
I understand that basically what I end up with is something like this.
The geometry, as I understand it, at 1500 grit doesn’t end up exactly like a pure edge because essentially I’m removing something like 20–40 microns of steel, which in effect slightly rounds the very apex.

So what exactly do I gain from this?
I feel that the cutting edge isn’t as aggressive as it “should” be on paper, but with the level of sharpening I’m doing, it’s still extremely sharp — meaning factory edges simply can’t reach this level of sharpness that you get when sharpening on a guided system with full burr removal.

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I realize I’ve already answered some of my own questions.
But if I’m not imagining things and I really do see something like a micro-bevel (especially closer to the tip) on the factory edges of some Carothers knives, what exactly does it give you?
Is it a durability bonus, better edge retention, or minimization of chipping?

I feel like it takes away just a tiny bit of cutting aggressiveness, but if in theory it significantly improves some other parameter, then it’s totally worth it.

And if this is indeed present on some knives from the factory, what’s the actual intent behind it?

(I asked a AI , but if you phrase the question right, of course it’ll just tell you that Nathan can do backflips. I genuinely couldn’t find any solid info on this…)

Here’s how it looks in real life on the cutting edge.

(That slightly lighter and more polished area right at the very tip.)
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Since I posted bad news in the UF thread I owe some better news. Here is my EDC in the middle that I have used to clean a good number of animals and then the EDCs I got for my kids to use when they get a little bit older. Since I’m not giving them my knife I wanted them to have a piece of the knife that cleaned each of their first deer. Since they are opposite eye dominant it made it super easy to give them a scale from mine inline with their dominant eye and I now also have a piece of their knives with me.

Not knife related but they also both used the same rifle I did when harvesting their first deer and I was fortunate enough to be sitting with them as they did it.
 
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