The Knife Life (Minor Topics and Random Stuff Thread)

Zeta33 said:
Thanks man, it was a tough call between a few Seamasters. I sold the Submariner knowing there's a ceramic Sub for me down the road. Didn't wear as nicely as the Omega (my Sub was an older one, ref. 14060. ) How's that custom? You been using it a lot? We need some new photos!
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Well, I'm glad you like the Omega, and it was worth giving up the Rolex. It looks great - very nice watch!

I'm still using the Varga custom. It's one hell of a great knife. With the blade having the finish that it does, I figured it would take forever for any marks to show up on it. But, so far it's managed to pick up a good amount of character. A couple quick pics:





 
Krissig12 said:
Thanks Dog.

I wasn't sure how much I would like wood on a sebenza, but it turns out I love it!

The one thing I think would have made it better is if the inlays were recessed JUST A LITTLE BIT more into the handle so they didn't stick out so much. I like the thinness of the plain Jane.
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Yeah, I've always wondered why they didn't tuck em in just a wee bit more. You could always sand em down! :eek:
 
AntDog said:
Well, I'm glad you like the Omega, and it was worth giving up the Rolex. It looks great - very nice watch!

I'm still using the Varga custom. It's one hell of a great knife. With the blade having the finish that it does, I figured it would take forever for any marks to show up on it. But, so far it's managed to pick up a good amount of character. A couple quick pics:





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You were the right guy to win that knife man, looks like you're really enjoying it. It's a very fine looking piece, thanks for the photos!
 
AntDog said:
Yeah, I've always wondered why they didn't tuck em in just a wee bit more. You could always sand em down! :eek:
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Haha, that was the first thing that I thought of when I was wondering why they made them so thick.........

But then I remembered how much I paid for the knife and IMMEDIATELY pushed the idea out of my mind :D
 
Krissig12 said:
Haha, that was the first thing that I thought of when I was wondering why they made them so thick.........

But then I remembered how much I paid for the knife and IMMEDIATELY pushed the idea out of my mind :D
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The thickness is kind of the point though. Added grip. The space between the inlays helps with that more than anything, imo.
 
Zeta33 said:
The thickness is kind of the point though. Added grip. The space between the inlays helps with that more than anything, imo.
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I get the extra grip thing, but on a fancier wood inlayed knife, I don't really think grip is the most important feature.

The micarta inlays being raised make more sense to me, especially since they also have a grippy texture. But wood?

Whatever, this is a VERY minor thing for me. Not a problem at all
 
Some thoughts after carrying it for a day.....


-fingerprints everywhere!

-it came much sharper from the "factory" than my plain Jane did

-it's smoothing out nicely. I took it down, cleaned it, and put the washers on my strop for some polishing, and that helped a lot. New lube as well. Much better now than when I first got it

-lockup is alarmingly late. Around 90% at least. But the lockup on my plain Jane wasn't much better and yet it still hasn't moved since I got it, so I figure this one will be alright too

-the gold anodized hardware looks siiiiiiick:D:thumbup:
 
So I decided to touch up my esee 4 on some old 2000 grit paper, and I ended up with by far the best polished edge I've ever done. It figures the one time I'm not trying to get it and it happens. I wasn't able to get rid of all the scratch marks, but progress not perfection I suppose.

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Nice job sappy:thumbup:

Yeah, sharpening is something that I can be bad at one day and amazing at the next day. Takes a lot of practice to get the consistency down.

My 4 is sporting a similarly polished edge, just not convexed. I'll see if I can get some pics
 
Yeah the worst part was that it was extremely sharp for a second, but at some point during the polishing it lost some of it's bight. I was so stoked on the new polish that I was fine sacrificing a bit of bight.
 
SadSappySucker said:
Yeah the worst part was that it was extremely sharp for a second, but at some point during the polishing it lost some of it's bight. I was so stoked on the new polish that I was fine sacrificing a bit of bight.
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Did it happen when you were stropping it? Usually when I loose bite is when I switch to the strop.

Probably just bad technique (going to steep or with too much pressure and rounding off the edge a little)
 
I know what you mean but no. This time it was on the paper. I was mixing up my technique trying to get rid of the last bit of scratch pattern.
 
SadSappySucker said:
I know what you mean but no. This time it was on the paper. I was mixing up my technique trying to get rid of the last bit of scratch pattern.
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Ah. yeah that can do it

Whenever I switch technique in the middle of sharpening, something always either goes really wrong or really right:D
 
Krissig12 said:
I get the extra grip thing, but on a fancier wood inlayed knife, I don't really think grip is the most important feature.

The micarta inlays being raised make more sense to me, especially since they also have a grippy texture. But wood?

Whatever, this is a VERY minor thing for me. Not a problem at all
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I see what you're saying, and agree regarding the importance. My thoughts on "why", in that case, would be because that all inlays are cut the same. CRK is a production knife company, and as such, all their offerings have to be done more or less the same way for efficiency. Now I know the treatment of some inlays is different, like the micarta being sandblasted along with the rest of the scales for example but, I'd imagine the inlays are all sized the same for ease of manufacturing the scales, regardless of what the inlay might be. Then again, I could be off. I'm just thinking aloud for the sake of discussion.
 
Zeta33 said:
I see what you're saying, and agree regarding the importance. My thoughts on "why", in that case, would be because that all inlays are cut the same. CRK is a production knife company, and as such, all their offerings have to be done more or less the same way for efficiency. Now I know the treatment of some inlays is different, like the micarta being sandblasted along with the rest of the scales for example but, I'd imagine the inlays are all sized the same for ease of manufacturing the scales, regardless of what the inlay might be. Then again, I could be off. I'm just thinking aloud for the sake of discussion.
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Of course, of course. Manufacturing efficiency and whatnot

And they're growing on me anyway. I kinda like the width now:)

They also make the knife have a different sound when you open it. Less click and more clack:D
 
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