What did you do with your knife today?

Agith said:
I guess I am not sure how that would work. If the blade is taller, wouldn't it have more drag since there is more material to rub against your cutting media? In the case of things like wood or cardboard that is. However even with food I'd think you'd see an effect. Though with food particularly I could see the benefit of keeping a divide between the two new halves cut. I just don't see how a taller blade, ergo MORE material to rub against as your cutting, could possibly create less resistance. More contact as your cutting would mean more drag on that material against your blade.
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Given the same blade stock, a shorter grind requires a less acute angle. The less acute the angle, the more you're going to need to wedge material apart rather than slice it. The more acute the angle, the lower the coefficient of friction and the more easily it will slice through. There are some forms of cutting media that mess with this, soft cheeses, for example, stick to the blade enough that it starts to go the other way, but for most of the stuff we cut you want a taller grind for smooth, clean, linear slices and a shorter blade for something that you'll need to change direction with while cutting. One of the best real world examples is a Chef's knife versus a paring knife.
 
Took the single edge of a chisel grind down from twenty degrees to fifteen degrees. Not much else as of today.
 
Rolled a tip by prying with it. Honed and sharpened it up. That is all for today :) .
 
Like most of you, I used it to open packages of other knives I got in the mail.
I opened and closed it a bunch
made a cardboard box with it so I could ship out a knife I just sold
found tape to salvage as I was out of packing tape.
Yea thats about it.!
 
Not today, but several days back.
Scraped a couple big, juicy leeches off the plastron of a turtle my son caught with my ZT0450.
Leeches have their place, yeah. But I like turtles better.
 
Cut back some blackberries and bamboo. With my folder, opened a bag of feed and some packages.
 
Cut open mail ,cut off the end of an ice bag, cut open my Father's day gift today. Cleaned my nails and touched up the blades on my 72OT Peanut.
 

I opened a package of some novelty pens a relative ordered me direct from China.
The Hodge podge gold mystery rifle one writes especially well due to its ultra fine tip, and the little silencer-ish piece actually unscrews ( took me a minute to realize that it's actually a pen )
The guitar one is also pretty cool but again is a Hodge podge, as it's mostly a sunburst les Paul but it has the f hole of an ES series guitar . It is hand painted though which I guess is kind of cool.
 
Trimmed my nostril hair.

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Bigbluefish said:
Not today, but several days back.
Scraped a couple big, juicy leeches off the plastron of a turtle my son caught with my ZT0450.
Leeches have their place, yeah. But I like turtles better.
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He caught a turtle with a ZT0450! You are gonna have to show us how that's done! :D

It's "box opening day" for me today! Vic Super Tinker.
 
opened bags of fertilizer, cut netting and plastic wrapping from the flowers and pots that arrived today, cut off the caps of six big sanitizer bottles, cut some twine and rope to hang some signs in different rooms of the Garden

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Gave my zt620 a birthday cleaned it up and polished the bronze washers now she flips nice and smooth tested it on a vanilla slice when i had afternoon smoko so sweet
 
Used my Spyderco Endura 4 to open a bag of Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, and cut up a Chunky Bar.
 
used a big blade as a chisel to scrap the ice that formed inside my freezer because I did not closed the door properly last night dammit
 
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