So it's official. My wife thinks I'm weird.

Wowbagger said:
I can momiserate.
You know when the cat brings you a dead bird and lays it on the porch, special, just for you ?
And how you feel when you come out and see it and realize the cat left it for you.
That's the way she feels when you give her a folder intended for EDC.
When giving knives, especially to women (granted there are many exceptins both male and female . . .I'm just saying) . . . best to gift (that is if you want them to use it) . . .best to give one that is plain, inexspensive, and all importantly to them:eek: NOT SHARP :eek:.
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Yeah, I don't get the part about them not being sharp. My wife is like that.
I never will be able to figure that one out. Anyone have an idea as to why women like dull knives?
 
I'm in the same boat- I have no real need to carry a knife. I find a pair of compact reading glasses more necessary for my lifestyle than a knife. I have a bunch of knives, sharp and unused for the most part except for an occasional cardboard box. And I keep buying more.

With a couple of the cheap ones, I slice them against a rock a couple times to dull the blade, then practice sharpening. Otherwise, I've got nothing to sharpen, because my knives are rarely used.
 
sabre cat said:
Yeah, I don't get the part about them not being sharp. My wife is like that.
I never will be able to figure that one out. Anyone have an idea as to why women like dull knives?
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They're scared, some men are too. Sharp knives deliver deep clean cuts. Dull knives bounce off. They don't understand control and usage.
 
sabre cat said:
Anyone have an idea as to why women like dull knives?
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Before this gets too focused on women I would change it to some people don't like sharp knives because they don't want to get cut. Part of it may be that they have an exaggerated idea of what getting cut is like. Maybe I am thinking just kitchen knives now. Some of the members here have related self inflicted injuries that have been quite debilitating/dangerous and expensive.

I will use my self as an example :
I can hardly spell without an industrial, ultra heavy duty, water cooled spell checker.
I didn't grow up with people around me who were, lets say, scholastic. They were good people, I would even say exceptionally great people . . . just not spelling bee competition enthusiasts.
How ever for as long as I can remember I was doing real work with my hands (making things, fixing things, improving things) partly because those were the people I was in everyday contact with.

Result :
I fear spelling bees like some fear sharp knives being thrown at them.
I don't recoil from the sharpest knives and if / when I get cut a little bit I don't think much of it I just take care of it and start healing it.

Fortunately I don't have to win spelling bees to survive and there are tools to help me write.
And doing things with my hands comes effortlessly and there are just flocks of good spellers who need things put together for them so I can survive on that path.

There was a point there somewhere . . .

oh yah . . . some were never shown how to use a knife or had any examples to follow and so they just know they shouldn't be fooling around with things that effortlessly remove whole pieces from other things but since they can spell restaurant and technician (two words I had to look up) they can google some one to do those dangerous (actually complex and interesting) things for them.
 
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The first thing I do with a new knife is the paper cut test. If it snags then I'll run it last the fine and ultra fine sharp maker stones. I won't intentionally dull a new knife.
 
I'll never forget the one time I lent somebody (a non-knife person) my first knife to cut open a small package with. It was a CRKT Pazoda 2, my buddy's thumb got nicked and he goes "Whoa, it's sharp". :D
 
You have a very astute friend; an interesting observation on his part. :rolleyes: I do, however, wonder at his being surprised. ;)
 
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Wowbagger said:
I can commiserate.
You know when the cat brings you a dead bird and lays it on the porch, special, just for you ?
And how you feel when you come out and see it and realize the cat left it for you.
That's the way she feels when you give her a folder intended for EDC.
When giving knives, especially to women (granted there are many exceptins both male and female . . .I'm just saying) . . . best to gift (that is if you want them to use it) . . .best to give one that is plain, inexspensive, and all importantly to them:eek: NOT SHARP :eek:.
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Another weird aspect of it is when I tell her that I can sell them as she has had them for more than 4 years, has never used them and clearly never will, then she is totally against that, absolutely will not allow it.
Why? Because I gave them to her.
I think there's a warm fuzzy for me in there somewhere.
 
Cursum Perficio said:
Another weird aspect of it is when I tell her that I can sell them as she has had them for more than 4 years, has never used them and clearly never will, then she is totally against that, absolutely will not allow it.
Why? Because I gave them to her.
I think there's a warm fuzzy for me in there somewhere.
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Yes, there is a warm fuzzy in there for you.

I just ask my wife if I could sell the knife I gave her. It went something like this:

Me: Can I sell the SAK I gave you? The one in your car.
Wife: No.
Me: Why not?
Wife: It's mine.
Me: But you never use it.
Wife: Yes I do! I've used it a couple of times.

At least you got a warm fuzzy.:)
 
I've only been doing this recently, with an Ulu I have been working on producing for the past few weeks. I wanted to see how well I managed to heat treat my steel, so after a hardness test I ended up punching logs with it, cutting paper, cardboard, plastic clamshell packaging, even some food (not always in that order!). The only other time I've abused a steel while trying to get it dull was with my ZT0560CBCF, and that's because it was my first knife with S110V. I wanted to see what it could take!
 
WillardCorspe said:
I've only been doing this recently, with an Ulu I have been working on producing for the past few weeks. I wanted to see how well I managed to heat treat my steel, so after a hardness test I ended up punching logs with it, cutting paper, cardboard, plastic clamshell packaging, even some food (not always in that order!). The only other time I've abused a steel while trying to get it dull was with my ZT0560CBCF, and that's because it was my first knife with S110V. I wanted to see what it could take!
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How did it go?
 
W. Anderson said:
How did it go?
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For the Ulu? Really well, actually. Used 1095, chisel ground, sharpened at just about 20° on the bevel, hardened to 60 rc. No chips or cracks that I could detect, and it held its edge pretty well, all things considered. The logs were the roughest test for sure, as some of them were older and weathered, but I'm happy to say the worst I managed to get was slightly rounding one of the corners. Sharpening didn't take too long either. Looking forward to try batoning with it as a wedge, we'll see how that goes!

As for the ZT... I was working in a plastic factory at the time, and even cutting through countless heavy duty strapping and off-cuts, it took weeks for me to notice a difference! S110V is no joke.
 
W. Anderson said:
This is an incredibly random post.

My wife just came home from her shift ( She works nights, I, days) to find a pile of paper and cardboard (and a few empty beer cans, still intact mind you) that I sliced up for no reason other than to dull my recently acquired Phillip Patton damascus scalpel in order to sharpen it again.

I suppose the topic of discussion is:
Does anyone else arbitrarily use their blades to the point of dullness for the sole purpose of being able to enjoy sharpening them?

Thanks for looking.
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Weird is a lot more polite than the term my wife uses.

I've been known to attack the recycling pile when I'm not happy with an edge. Particularly on factory fresh knives. I hate to sharpen a sharp knife, but some factories leave really terrible looking bevels
 
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