True or false?

As many have said above, cardboard is abrasive but is FAR from the worst thing you can cut. I just put in my veggie garden and had to cut a moderate amount of slightly dirty landscaping fabric which destroyed the edge on my Kershaw Rake in short order. The edge is D2 which is quite wear resistant and would have been in better shape if I had cut a similar amount of cardboard IMHO.
 
recon1s14 said:
My Spyderco Salt 1 did not like all the cardboard cutting I put it through last week :D again that's probably because of the soft H1 steel, I got a heavily rolled edge out of it and a whole lot of shredded cardboard, since I have the SE version and do not own a Sharpmaker, I had to resort to a tungsten carbide (to remove the rolled edge) and a couple leather strops, soft leather strop, then harder leather strop, it took awhile to get the edge back. I guess my point is yes cardboard can mess up an edge badly....depending on the steel....my Leatherman in 420HC steel will hold out longer and not get nearly the rolled edge that the softer H1 will because it is harder and therefore can go through more abrasive materials far longer without the edge wearing down or becoming malleable. Just physics.
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Since H1 is work hardened the SE versions are not 'soft' at the edge like the PE ones.
 
I just drilled the tip of my Southward through half an inch of dry wall, definitely rougher on an edge than cardboard
 
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Knives are not made to cut.
They are made to: sharpen, resharpen, look at, resharpen, take pictures of, lust over, sit in drawers, resharpen, look at, customize, argue about, trade, spend vast amounts of money on then resharpen, take apart, clean, lubricate then resharpen one last time.
 
Since getting my Sharpmaker, I no longer worry about something being hard on an edge.

I bought my knives to cut, and use them to cut what I need.
When they no longer cut properly, out comes the Sharpmaker.

A sharp knife just makes things easier.
 
Is nutnfancy's cardboard limited edition Duracoated? That could be harsh on the edge, not to mention 5x the cost of standard cardboard. :)

Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it. Just watch out for staples.
 
Cardboard provides an excellent medium for generating excuses to spend quality time sharpening, rebuilding, admiring, obsessing over, and rationalizing our knives. We should all be cutting more cardboard.
 
ooooo cardboard

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