Titanium Mini Santoku with Carbide Edge

Mitchell Knives said:
Cool! I really like how you applied the carbide; sort of a faux hamon. Nice finish on the titanium also.
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Thanks for the stopping by :thumbup: Yeah I didn't really want to just put a straight line of carbide across the edge. So I attempted to get a little artsy :D I think it turned out pretty good. Goes well with the faux damascus pattern as well.

I would like to handle one of your Drone knives one of these days. That is a great design. :thumbup:
 
Is the carbide too hard so be sharpened? Sorry the whole carbide thing is new to me, ive been away for too long :)
 
tjiscooler said:
Is the carbide too hard so be sharpened? Sorry the whole carbide thing is new to me, ive been away for too long :)
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You can sharpen the carbide with ceramic and diamond. But if you apply carbide to both sides of the edge and then sharpen normally with a V edge....then carbides will be removed from the actual edge and whats left over is the substrate material (titanium). That kinda defeats the purpose of utilizing the harder carbide material as a cutting edge.
 
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