Reprofiling Kitchen Stainless Steel Knife to a Bushcraft Knife

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I took a decent Stainless Steel knife I got at a thrift store for a buck 99 and ground it down into a bushcraft style knife have not used it yet but are these kitchen knife stainless steels of poor quality seems like it bends with not to much effort is thickness a factor with stainless steel?
 
Kitchen knives are just thin. I can flex any of them no problem.

Should be find for typical bushcraft spoon carving and the like. Just don't chop through a car door with it.
 
Danke42 said:
Kitchen knives are just thin. I can flex any of them no problem.

Should be find for typical bushcraft spoon carving and the like. Just don't chop through a car door with it.
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Kitchen knives are by no means all thin and by no means all flex.

Maybe yours are.
 
Nomad, take it out and use it - that’s how you’ll know for sure. Nobody can predict if it’ll meet your expectations or stand up to your usage, but it’ll be fun to find out.

I took an old beater carbon steel Dexter one time, ground it back to the thick part, and used it on 3 or 4 construction jobs. Loaned it to some pretty ham handed construction monkeys, too, who beat it like a redheaded stepchild. We pried, scraped and pounded with that thing, cut fiberglass insulation, nobody babied it. At the end of one job, one of the CMs (who was a particularly hard worker) liked it so much I just gave it to him. Next day he brought in a brand new FatMax chisel in trade. Win-win.

He’s probably using it still.

Parker
 
Not all Kitchen knives flex. Some are designed thin. Some are not. The term "Kitchen Knives" is quite wide, and includes big German lobster splitters, American butcher cleavers, Japanese Debas, etc., none of which will flex.
 
Thickness will determine flexibility.
My biggest concerns would be edge holding and handle shape. Most kitchen knife handles wouldn't be very comfortable for carving even with modification.
 
Dr Rez said:
You think all good kitchen knives flex? Like you actually think that?
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Ones from the Thrift Store sure do.

But prove me wrong; hit up the local Goodwill and come home with a few of them German Lobster Splitters.
 
Danke42 said:
Ones from the Thrift Store sure do.

But prove me wrong; hit up the local Goodwill and come home with a few of them German Lobster Splitters.
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Over here, our GW can't sell knives, they have to go to corporate. Sucks, because some people in the receiving section send me pics of what gets donated and living in a nice area and near an even nicer one, people randomly just give away bags of really nice, random stuff. You can tell they sometimes don't even go through it, as happens when some sweet grandma accidentally donates a big ol' jar of lil Jimmy's weed in the assorted knit scarves and Hummels or whatever.
 
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