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DocH

DocH

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Color me A FORTUNATE Man...
The 2nd Everest Katana arrived here Saturday!!
RAZOR SHARP.
Even Willow (My Better Half) agreed.... Scalpel Sharp.

Thank-You Bura and the other Craftsman who have crafted our Blades.

I guess We have just been Very "lucky" but, We have NEVER had a problem with the Edge on Our E Kats.
For that matter, the Other HI Blades that we are Blessed to have in Our Family have not needed All those power tools that people keep talking about to make a Sharp Edge on the blades....
We are now VERY puzzled... we keep hearing things about belt sanders, grit sizes etc...
but Where is the need for those things?

Ahh Well..........maybe someday We will be enlightened.....

Doc n Willow
 
I've never needed any power tools or special equipment to sharpen or maintain any of mine either.

;)
 
Glad the katana came out good.

Re: sharpening. I guess belt sanders make it easy to reprofile the edge to a full convex grind, which seems to be the "in" thing and everyone, it seems, wants to put one on every blade. I tend to not reprofile my blades and simply sharpen it with the profile it came with. I've always done this by hand.
I like carrying a diamond hone in the field simply because they are much lighter than a stone. At home, my weapons of choice have been an India stone fine/coarse "puck" from Norton and a strop.
 
In my case, the belt grinder is sometimes a necessity for the occasional blade with either a very steep geometry, or even flats on the edge.

I haven't gotten any HI's that came razor sharp... I think the Khadka Bonecutter was probably the sharpest as it came to me. I still took it to the grinder for a little work. :D
 
Thank you for the kind words for Bura and other Kamis
 
Thanks for the input Wolf, CPL, And C.S.Graves!
The E Kat I had obtained from Abaniko was not quite as sharp as the the one that just arrived from Yangdu/Bura, so I used ceramic rods to put the final last wee bit on the 1st E Kat....I Really am a Newbie when it comes to the "techniques and types" of blade edge geometry, and I was wondering does there come a point where the cutting edge is so thin that the blade will spend more time being "re-sharpened" than actually working?
I was of the mindset that it is a "trade-off" 'tween "Sharpness" and Lasting or durability at the very "edge" of the edge.
 
DocH said:
I was wondering does there come a point where the cutting edge is so thin that the blade will spend more time being "re-sharpened" than actually working?
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If you are talking about outdoors use, yes.
If you mean kitchen chores, not really.
 
Thanks, CPL...
That sort of seemed to be common sense... However I am no Blade expert, 'tis for sure!
I guess like many other things in Life, Balance and Listening can really benefit one.


;)
Ed
 
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