I found some microchips in my Sebenza, done mostly while hacking some small limbs off of a branch. I've been a long time s30v fan and figured I'd bang around with a few other knives to see what's up.
First off, all knives except for the mini-grip have been resharpened on a Sharpmaker and stroped on a Hand America strop pad with chromium oxide. The chips are out of the Sebenza (ther were quite small) and the Busse was reprofiled on the Sharpmaker.
Here's what they did: And the pics are here: http://echoesphotographic.zenfolio.com/p825732424
Password is "bladeforums"
Each knife feels great in the hand, formed like they were meant to be there. The mini grip did feel small, but choking up actually made it feel good. The Busse fits the hand the best, the Caly 3 second, the Sebbie third. This is splitting hairs here. The Caly's carbon scales do have a little grip to them but I don't know if that would hold true in the wet.
Before each slicing test of newsprint and carboard, each blade was cleaned and wiped free with WD40.
I didn't try to be gentle with the mallet, I wanted something to chip. For some odd reason, I wanted my Sebbie to chip again and be the worst of the bunch. It wasn't. There wasn't really a clear loser, the Busse did well but it's thickness made cutting the cardboard a little harder but they all did the simple tasks at hand very well.
There was a clear winner though, the Caly 3. If you want a well made slicer who's sharpness ability will be if not already, legendary, this is the knife.
What does this simple test prove? Well, not much really. It wasn't an abusive test, nor was there enough cuts of anything made to prove anything although the Sebenza cut just as much today as it did before I noticed it being chipped. The ZDP was suprisingly strong. I expected this steel with such a high RC to chip but it did great. The Busse, well I just wanted to beat the living crap out of this knife. It's something to drink the koolaid of that brand and just hold the thing and think it'll go through a brick wall. The mini-grip is too small and needs to be replaced with a full size WilkinsGrip. The Sebbie? Well, after I brought everything inside, touched them all up on the sharpmaker and the strop, this one went in my pocket and we left for the day.
I did learn one thing I think. These new steels all should be touched up from the get go. The mini-grip is the only one that came out with visible edge damage and it's the only one that still had it's factory edge.
Take it for whatever it's worth. Maybe something else will happen later down the road and I'll add to this thread.
First off, all knives except for the mini-grip have been resharpened on a Sharpmaker and stroped on a Hand America strop pad with chromium oxide. The chips are out of the Sebenza (ther were quite small) and the Busse was reprofiled on the Sharpmaker.
Here's what they did: And the pics are here: http://echoesphotographic.zenfolio.com/p825732424
Password is "bladeforums"
- strip small limbs (1/4") off of a branch.
- Took each limb and cut off 5 separate chunks using a rubber mallet using a piece of cedar decking as a cutting board.
- Then I battoned each knife into the end of said cedar decking. Again, all of course did perfectly.
- Sliced newsprint to test edge retention, about an eight inch cut with each knife.
- Took each branch and made 25 cuts per knife, cutting the tip off the branch each time.
- With the full belly of each knife laying parallel on the cedar I gave each knife 3 good whacks.
- Then it was 10 cuts shaving the corners off of cardboard.
- Took each knife and battoned it into the decking parallel to the grain, each knife was hit 3 times with the rubber mallet on the spine.
- Shaved 10 long strips of cardboard.
- Sliced newsprint one last time.
Each knife feels great in the hand, formed like they were meant to be there. The mini grip did feel small, but choking up actually made it feel good. The Busse fits the hand the best, the Caly 3 second, the Sebbie third. This is splitting hairs here. The Caly's carbon scales do have a little grip to them but I don't know if that would hold true in the wet.
Before each slicing test of newsprint and carboard, each blade was cleaned and wiped free with WD40.
I didn't try to be gentle with the mallet, I wanted something to chip. For some odd reason, I wanted my Sebbie to chip again and be the worst of the bunch. It wasn't. There wasn't really a clear loser, the Busse did well but it's thickness made cutting the cardboard a little harder but they all did the simple tasks at hand very well.
There was a clear winner though, the Caly 3. If you want a well made slicer who's sharpness ability will be if not already, legendary, this is the knife.
What does this simple test prove? Well, not much really. It wasn't an abusive test, nor was there enough cuts of anything made to prove anything although the Sebenza cut just as much today as it did before I noticed it being chipped. The ZDP was suprisingly strong. I expected this steel with such a high RC to chip but it did great. The Busse, well I just wanted to beat the living crap out of this knife. It's something to drink the koolaid of that brand and just hold the thing and think it'll go through a brick wall. The mini-grip is too small and needs to be replaced with a full size WilkinsGrip. The Sebbie? Well, after I brought everything inside, touched them all up on the sharpmaker and the strop, this one went in my pocket and we left for the day.
I did learn one thing I think. These new steels all should be touched up from the get go. The mini-grip is the only one that came out with visible edge damage and it's the only one that still had it's factory edge.
Take it for whatever it's worth. Maybe something else will happen later down the road and I'll add to this thread.
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