The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

Grenock said:
Nathan and I were on the phone when you posted this. He wanted me to let you know that yes, giving Boker permission to copy one of his patterns has basically taken everything off his plate at the shop. All the machine centers will be sitting idle, the heat treat development of new steels will be done by the little German shop fairies he is getting as part of his compensation for the deal, all the work he does for other makers will now be done by those makers themselves because they won't be able to afford Nathan's skills anymore with that gold leaf Boker lederhosen he is being fitted for. So, everything on the white board, past, present and future, Shiv 2s, K20s, Khuks, folders and a bunch of shit he hasn't even thought of and we've never heard of, will all be completed in two weeks. After that, he plans to pour diesel over everything and burn it all to the ground as there will be nothing left for him to do in two weeks. :rolleyes:

#NotNathanButAreYouSeriousRightNow?
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I hope the ponies aren't hurt in the fires. Beyond that, my only other fear is that Boker later gets bought out by a Chinese conglomerate and the new signature on the Signature Series starts looking like 卡羅 and edge cut antique jade becomes the new scale option to replace ECAM.

Stay strong USA!

Phil
 
Random selfish question, but seeing as any CPK Chopper that gets listed for sale at whatever unreasonable price the seller wants is sold within 30 minutes. Do you think now is a good time to make the "LC2" Or maybe LDC2? 😁
 
Mark4444 said:
Random selfish question, but seeing as any CPK Chopper that gets listed for sale at whatever unreasonable price the seller wants is sold within 30 minutes. Do you think now is a good time to make the "LC2" Or maybe LDC2? 😁
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Are the prices unreasonable if they sell in less than 30, or let’s be honest, in most cases, less than 5 minutes? Asking for a friend.
 
Mark4444 said:
True, the market has spoken, $800 to $900 dollars for a knife that will mostly be used to chop logs in the back yard is absolutely reasonable. 😂😂. Last one sold in 3 minutes!
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I think we are in agreement, it’s where the market is. They sell at those prices quite quickly, and even $800 to $900 is optimistic, the BCs are hitting $1200 to $1500 depending on what comes with them as far as sheaths and scales go.

For the record, I would never, and have never, split wood in my backyard with an $800+ CPK chopper, like never ever. I have a $12K log splitter for that.😜
 
#notnathan

I'm an idiot..... but I would guess you would have to be sawing away with either one of those to create enough heat to damage the knife .... but if you're moving the stone that fast .... there probably wouldn't be much knife left lol
 
ferider said:
Morning Nathan the Machinist Nathan the Machinist :

We all know that dry belt grinding of CPKs is a no-go due to overheating.

I usually use my Spyderco medium benchstone wet, works very well. How about hand-sharpening CPKs dry with ceramic or diamond ?

Thanks.
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Unless you are moving it so fast and hard that you are creating enough friction to generate crazy amount of heat, you should be fine.
 
ferider said:
Morning Nathan the Machinist Nathan the Machinist :

We all know that dry belt grinding of CPKs is a no-go due to overheating.

I usually use my Spyderco medium benchstone wet, works very well. How about hand-sharpening CPKs dry with ceramic or diamond ?

Thanks.
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Just how fast do you do your strokes while hand sharpening? 🤔It's a benchstone, not a....


...nevermind.




You'll be fine (and so will the CPK).

😅

***
P.S.
Keep to this tempo and you'll be A-OK
🤣
 
Well, I'm stroking slowly, just saying ...... :)

The question arose as somebody else and of good reputation in the knifemaker forum earlier today mentioned that an edge's apex can be heat-damaged when hand-sharpening with dry diamond stones. And, 50 years ago, when my dad explained why to put water on a sharpening stone - he said the same thing, water was for cooling.

So I'm hoping to get Nathan's take on this.
 
ferider said:
Well, I'm stroking slowly, just saying ...... :)

The question arose as somebody else and of good reputation in the knifemaker forum earlier today mentioned that an edge's apex can be damaged by heat when hand-sharpening with dry diamond stones. And, 50 years ago, when my dad explained why to put water on a sharpening stone - he said the same thing, water was for cooling.

So I'm hoping to get Nathan's take on this.
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I thought water was to help transport off the debris from the stone and knife. I thought for Japanese water stones it's used to make a slurry which helps sharpen the edge.
 
ferider said:
Well, I'm stroking slowly, just saying ...... :)

The question arose as somebody else and of good reputation in the knifemaker forum earlier today mentioned that an edge's apex can be damaged by heat when hand-sharpening with dry diamond stones. And, 50 years ago, when my dad explained why to put water on a sharpening stone - he said the same thing, water was for cooling.

So I'm hoping to get Nathan's take on this.
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Good point !

I use water and a small bit of dish soap on my diamond stones to help them from clogging and help carry the slurry away
 
unwisefool said:
I thought water was to help transport off the debris from the stone and knife. I thought for Japanese water stones it's used to make a slurry which helps sharpen the edge.
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Yep. Either water or honing oil (or WD40) when using Arkansas stones. Water for Japanese water stones.

But I've always heard of it being used to mitigate clogging on Arkansas stones. I hadn't heard anyone mention 'cooling' wrt hand sharpening.
 
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