What Materials Do You Slice?

[Vivi]

As the title states. What are some specific materials you cut with a slice?

 

[mongomondo]

hoboes

 

[Roger999]

hoboes

They're a pain in the ass to slice aye?

I usually slice cardboard from packaging.

 

[babakanoosh45]

At home, USPS Priorty Boxes that new knives come in as well as the obligatory Onion or Tomato... At work I cut THICK Corrugated boxes (Gaylord Boxes) as well as PolyPropelene Sheeting .080 thick. I most often have a Buck 112 or my small Sebenza, sometimes a Buck 110.

 

[rowdy27]

Fish,bread,etc

 

[nephildevil]

FOOD!

 

[AfterTFD]

Almost all of my cutting is cardboard at work.

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

Lately I've been slicing quite a bit of foam board insulation, and fiberglass insulation, and cardboard.

Andy

 

[orthogonal1]

Wouldn't it be more limiting to ask what we push-cut?

I can't remember what the last thing I cut by push-cutting, with the exception of chopping wood.

 

[Vivi]

Wouldn't it be more limiting to ask what we push-cut?

I can't remember what the last thing I cut by push-cutting, with the exception of chopping wood.

I ask because I do mostly push cutting myself. I'm going to sharpen a few knives with similar blade profiles and steels to a low grit edge, test slicing ability, then do the same at a high grit edge. I'm curious how much of a difference the grit finish makes. I'm looking for ideas of what to cut.

 

[THG]

Cardboard.

 

[stabman]

Cardboard, leather, thick felt, denim, various thicknesses of plastic, crappy old books(not good ones), and of course, envelopes and food.

 

[Kim Lau]

These vines outside my house that are tough as steel cable...

 

[Ralph Merlino]

I have a small horse ranch, I cut a lot of rope.

 

[knarfeng]

garden hose -
cardboard
blister packs
twine
rope

I think the only push cutting I do is when I trim the edges off of plastic parts.

edited to add: The garden hose I usually use has fiber reinforcements in it. Fiberglass, I think they are.

 

[nathan310]

As the title states. What are some specific materials you cut with a slice?

Mostly just people I don't like.

 

[The Moose]

Paper, best to slice

 

[Tiny86]

I do most of my cutting at work, and thats everything from shrink wrap, to rope, rigging materials, and just plain old cardboard.

 

[orthogonal1]

I'm looking for ideas of what to cut.

I did a minor test (experiment, I suppose), where I cut a plastic "test media". As to the media, I cut the ends off of two liter soda bottles, cut a slit in the center section, then rolled up the sheet into a roll about 1 inch in diameter, and taped the roll ends to maintain shape.

Can't say it proved anything in particular, though more acute, more abrasive edges did better.

Something to think about, anyway, as a test media for slicing cuts.

 

[Bushman5]

- food
- paper
- beer cans
- wood
- cardboard
- string
- rope
- twine
- cord
- hemp cord
- clothing
- clothing (leather, canvas, denim, etc) mounted on a training dummy
- hides
- meat
etc etc etc