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I have owned it 10 days now. High time to record some of my play time with this knife in one place. In this short time I have managed to dull it sufficiently a few times. Please understand that this is not a complaint, but rather a demonstration that I have not simply polished up this edge and placed the knife in the safe....Rather I did polish up the edge but only after beating the heck out of it...
and after polishing it, I beat on it some more!
Together we have chopped and batoned some big stuff:
Learned to make feather sticks and shaving piles together (for fire starting):
I had some successful coals from bow drilling with it:
I enjoyed reading every word of the ESEE 5 pass around, and wished I could have been part of it...I suppose that is the reason I wanted to make this thread.
Anyway, I wanted to document some of the fun we have had together in the past 10 days. I managed to drag the video camera along for some of my play time. I thought some of you would be interested in sharing my enthusiasm...the last part of the video is a little more light-hearted than the first....enjoy
[youtube]KhhY69YoINk[/youtube]
Here is a straight link to the video in case the embed doesn't work (http://www.youtube.com/user/ewerstruly?feature=mhum) which basically shows me chopping a stick into a baton, a fire board and spindle, then getting a coal...followed by chopping some fun stuff.
A few of you have requested updates on how things are going with regard to thinning out the edge, so I will share that here too.
I reprofiled the edge by hand on DMTs to 20 degrees inclusive on the flat, and 25 inclusive on the belly. Through some playing around, I now have what I feel is a fantastic edge (it has a thin edge bevel of 40 inclusive, with a 20/25 degree back bevel). It does everything I ask it now...but it still laughs at me most of the time.
It is probably too late, but before you think I am crazy, please understand that I believe that unless you push beyond the limit for edges, you really do not know where the practical limit (for you, the knife, and how you use it) is. Thus I experiment with stupid-thin edges after experiencing the thicker factory edges on most of my knives.
This is how it looked just before I took it out this morning:
Not bad considering all the glancing blows off that golf ball the other day?
Now that I am back home (after processing a decent amount of wood for a fire), I can tell you that the edge has no chips, rolls, or compressions...in fact it will still shave arm hair (roughly). I think I have found our "happy place" with this edge geometry...and it only took 10 days!
and after polishing it, I beat on it some more!
Together we have chopped and batoned some big stuff:
Learned to make feather sticks and shaving piles together (for fire starting):
I had some successful coals from bow drilling with it:
I enjoyed reading every word of the ESEE 5 pass around, and wished I could have been part of it...I suppose that is the reason I wanted to make this thread.
Anyway, I wanted to document some of the fun we have had together in the past 10 days. I managed to drag the video camera along for some of my play time. I thought some of you would be interested in sharing my enthusiasm...the last part of the video is a little more light-hearted than the first....enjoy
[youtube]KhhY69YoINk[/youtube]
Here is a straight link to the video in case the embed doesn't work (http://www.youtube.com/user/ewerstruly?feature=mhum) which basically shows me chopping a stick into a baton, a fire board and spindle, then getting a coal...followed by chopping some fun stuff.
A few of you have requested updates on how things are going with regard to thinning out the edge, so I will share that here too.
I reprofiled the edge by hand on DMTs to 20 degrees inclusive on the flat, and 25 inclusive on the belly. Through some playing around, I now have what I feel is a fantastic edge (it has a thin edge bevel of 40 inclusive, with a 20/25 degree back bevel). It does everything I ask it now...but it still laughs at me most of the time.
It is probably too late, but before you think I am crazy, please understand that I believe that unless you push beyond the limit for edges, you really do not know where the practical limit (for you, the knife, and how you use it) is. Thus I experiment with stupid-thin edges after experiencing the thicker factory edges on most of my knives.
This is how it looked just before I took it out this morning:
Not bad considering all the glancing blows off that golf ball the other day?
Now that I am back home (after processing a decent amount of wood for a fire), I can tell you that the edge has no chips, rolls, or compressions...in fact it will still shave arm hair (roughly). I think I have found our "happy place" with this edge geometry...and it only took 10 days!
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