shaving with your blade is fun

LOL I wouldn't say that I shave with my knives. But I DO have one of the aspects of the rabbid knife nut. I RARELY have much hair on my left forarm. So many, many edges to test, so little hair. :D
 
last knife I shaved with was a Harner parer/utility scalpel in CPM154 62-63 Rc. Butch already had it pretty sharp, but I finished it off with a 13000 grit Sigma Power stone then stropped on leather loaded with 0.5 micron diamond paste.
 
My zt knows my butchers steel well......I'm also smooth as a dolphin lol
 
Man i have enough trouble shaving normally. something tells me shaving with one of my knifes would require a trip to the ER ASAP!
 
9blades said:
My zt knows my butchers steel well......I'm also smooth as a dolphin lol
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Helps your speed when going for a swim, doesn't it?

I'm kidding a little... I don't actually shave my gross/naughty parts with my knives. But since I'm fair-skinned and not very hairy, I never had a lot of hair on my arms to begin with and it's long-gone now. So I do check new knives on my ankles and calves before sending them out. My wife thinks that's weird, but my clients expect an edge that will cleanly shave hair, so...

In all seriousness, I do feel that a quality knife should be able to shave. Perhaps not as precisely as a top-notch straight razor, but even a relatively thick-edged combat/survival/hard-use knife can indeed take and hold a very keen, crisp edge if the geometry is right and it's made from steel with fine grain and high toughness.
 
I've done that a couple of times, mostly without bloodshed :eek:. For a dork like me, It is pretty fun, and it's a very neat challenge to see if you can get your knives sharp enough to LITERALLY shave with (none of this "I scraped some hair off my arm, therefore it's razor sharp" silliness. I can scrape hair off my arm with a chunk of broken glass, that doesn't mean it's sharp enough that I'd want to shave my face with it).

I did it a couple of times with my Kershaw Cyclone sharpened using a set of mismatched waterstones (I think I finished off with a 4000 grit King stone, then moved to a stop with chromium oxide), and once or twice with my Opinel no.8 Carbone sharpened on sandpaper and a mousepad (then stropped on diamond paste...can't recall the grit). IIRC I fared better with the Opinel than I did with the Cyclone...
 
I find edge thickness plays a role in shaving comfort for the face, since the comfortable angles for holding the blade don't work as well with a thicker grind. I did nick my check with the parer, since it also has an awesome tip.
 
I only tried shaving my face with a knife (Griptilian) once, and I guess it kinda worked...
My left forearm is always bare as well. :P
 
from all the knives i have sharpened over the years, the hair on my left arm has pretty much ceased to grow. all i have is stubble and a few fine hairs.
 
This is not my video. I found it on youtube looking for videos of Busse knives, but it is pretty rad. Shaving with a Kukri:thumbup:

[video=youtube;5fo4hZvw8H0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fo4hZvw8H0[/video]
 
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From a give away over on the traditional forum. Yeah we get crazy over there.
 
I have a couple times just for the fun of it .This is a pic of when my wife asked me to cleen up my beard.
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This was with the factoy edge and a dry shave.I won't do that again. I did shave my beard off once with a Enlan EL-02.It needed a strop about half way through but it gave a nice clean shave.Maybe I will do it again when it gets warmer.
 
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