smelly CV???

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crbauhs

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so i was eating a big green apple tonight. used my case amber bone Darrel Ralph Delta 5 kits trapper to cut the allple up whenever i wanted a peice. then i noticed the blade smelled. triedit wil some stainless and nothing. it that the smell of patina that im smellin?:eek:
 
Especialy if the knife is still new, or just forming the patina... after mine with CV got covered with a good "layer" of patina (4 or 5 days cutting every dinner with the knife) the smell went away.

G.
 
I love the smell of patina in the morning. It's the smell of victory! :D

Seriously, though, it'll go away in awhile. Just keep eatin' apples. I've been on vacation at an inn up in the mountains this week with the wife and kids and toted along my well-patinaed yella cv Case trapper. It's served as our main food-prep knife - no smell issues at all.
 
im nto worried about the smell i was jsut wondering if that was mother naature at owrk on our favorite tools. pretty cool me thinks ;)
 
the smell is the metal taking on a patina...if you look at the leading edge of the cut on the apple you might notice a small bit of gray...i figure its good that i get some extra iron into my system...

and i have grown to like the smell...at first it was a little funny but now it seems natural.

and yes it goes away when you have a patina more developed. proof that a patina helps to stop further oxidation...
 
The smell comes back after sharpening from the freshly sharpened edge till it patinas again.

I was told by a friend who lived in Japan within the Japanese society, that the custom was that a freshly sharpened knife not being allowed to be used for that day.
 
Personally I don't very much like the smell. Then again its probably one of those acquired scents (like how i love the smell of lighter fluid but others just HATE it).

When I got my sodbuster in CV, the first time I peeled and cut into an apple I almost got knocked back from the smell. When I first used my opinel I don't remember it being that bad. I just ended up committing patina fraud. Just a little as like a break in period and now the rest of the patina forming is all natural without the smell.
 
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