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Unusual knife tests

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The Bread roll cutting test
To see if you knife is working sharp. Cut roll lengthwise as if making a sandwich.

The pickle cutting test
To see if your knife is really dull. Cut pickles in to 1/8 inch croos section slices.

The slit you own throat from ear to ear test
Self explainatory
 
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The cardboard cutting test: see if the edge can rip open a cardboard box with less effort than doing it with the spine.

The aluminum can opening test: if the knife fails, eat the knife ... it obviously isn't made of steel ... probably candy....

-Cougar :{)
 
Well my knife is sharp, my sandwich w/pickles is great, but whose going to pay to get this blood out of my shirt?

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Brandon

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Sounds like a great test to me ?!?!
Did the pickle slice straight through or did it just cut to the opposite side of the skin and require a restroke. ALso Please be specific about the type of bread if you want this to be taken with any credability. White is much to soft for a course edge and may just shread. Italian or french bread requires a whole different edge geometry. Oh man ... lets not even get into the bagal thing ... whew thats a whole different topic of disscusion. Ummmm The blood ?? .... was the pickle still alive when you did him in
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ALex

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Are you telling me to stroke my pickle?

Well I never.....

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Brandon

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Piercing a car door. If a car door is not available pierce a sheet of computer paper; it's just as difficult a test.

If the knife fails see aluminum can test above.

Clamp a coin in a vice and cut it by hammering on the spine of the knife.

That's a more difficult test -- I actually damaged a 99 cent bait knife that way. Knives that fail the coin test are not necessarily edible.

-Cougar :{)
 
Hee, heee! Dats' da' Truuuuuuth!
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Clamp a small area of the blade in a vice or other static device and apply lateral force. If the blade bends or breaks, it may have been made of steel.


[This message has been edited by Steve Harvey (edited 07-17-2000).]
 
Look at it real close.

Closer.

Ouch!

Yup, it's sharp.

David Rock

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Stop when you get to bone.
 
Like me - you guys have been hanging around W&C way way too much
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