While watching a friend struggle to cut a sausage roll.......

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With a dull bread knife, I handed her my 3 inch tanto, telling her to be carefull as it was sharpppp. Couldn't help laughing as she started saying 'Jeez' as she just had to draw the knife through the bread.

The knife later made the rounds of some of the guys in attendance, who looked at it like they had nec=ver seen anything sharp.
 
I've discovered that when socializing with friends, the most likely thing for which I will have occasion to pull a knife is to assist with food prep. Only a very few of my friends have kitchen implements as sharp or sharper than the utility knife (folder or small fixed) I typically have with me.

A few weeks ago I got myself a Hocho from A.G. Russel, his "folding chef's knife." Now, when I'm going to a social event involving food at some friend's house, I make sure I am carrying it. At some point during the evening, it seems that there is something that needs to be cut in the kitchen, and this knife serves very well in that capacity. Although it is not a bread knife per se, it is usually better, even on bread, than the knives most of my friends have.

Of course I still carry the utility knife too in case the cutting job calls for something more than the ultra-thin edge (.005" before the secondary bevel according to A.G.R.) of the Hocho.
 
I've used my various pocket folders for cutting at resturant's when the "steak" knives at the table were very dull or the meat was a little tough due to the cut. I have found that the Benchmade AFCK works extremely well in this roll due to its thin profile and super sharp edge.

I was breaking in an Emerson Commander about 2 years ago when I went to a company "lunch" time working meeting. As usual, it was a catered affair from the company cafeteria with the usual stuff. In this case, roast beef that could have used some additional slow roasting to soften it up. After attempting to cut it apart with plastic-ware, I pulled out my Commander and proceeded to cut it up into bite size chunks. No one commented on the knife at the meeting, which was full of the suit and tie crowd. However, I am still known as the "guy with the big knife" whenever I show up :)

Is that a good or a bad thing ;)
 
Don't you love having to warn people that your knife is actually sharp? And how few of them understand just how differently the knife behaves from what they're used to?

You might as well be handing them a hand grenade the way that they manage to put themselves in mortal danger, pulling toward themselves with full force, or "checking the edge" with their fingers...
 
Originally posted by Brian_Turner
or "checking the edge" with their fingers...
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I handed my MT Mini-SOCOM to somebody the other day and instead of checking the edge by brushing his finger across the blade he ran his finger down the blade! Ouch.
 
Originally posted by Brian_Turner
Don't you love having to warn people that your knife is actually sharp? And how few of them understand just how differently the knife behaves from what they're used to?

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I actually prefer hang with my best friend, who also understands SHARP knives (but isn't a knife nut). HE and I always get a kick out of peoples reaction to sharp knives

Charlie
 
My wife came back from a friends house yesterday and made a point about thanking me for her kitchen knives, which are 15 year old Wusthof's that I try to sharpen twice a year. They do a fine job, and my wife does not really appreciate a sharp knife, but when asked to help her friend do some food prep with her friend's Dull knives, she realized how good she has it at home. She said something about "well, at least my knives Cut". :)

I am always amused by how many people think a knife should normally be about as sharp as a screw driver. Anything else must be 'dangerous'.

Para
 
Huh? you mean they are supossed to be sharp?

the kitchen knives at work have to be dull as hell before they let me sharpen them... the last one was 2 weeks.

My Spyderco Wegner jr hasn't been sharpened in about a month(overdue) and still cuts better than the kitchen one(that I sharpened last night). The Xacto is dull as hell too, and they won't find a new blade(and I'm too cheap to use my blades for my work's property).

I scared the hell out of co-workers last night, testing the edge on the scrapper(2" wide, razor blade, much like an xacto/paint scrapper crossbreed)... used the inside of my arm becuase I had gloves on that cover 1/2 way up my lower arm. Then proceded to sharpen it... I was shaving hair off my arm when it was done(now have a 5x2" patch!) and before you couldn't even stick it in a box...
 
I actually find myself warning people often that my knife is SHARP when I lend one to them. Not to insult their intelligence at all but because if they are used to a dull knife a sharp one will generally go right through what they are cutting and may be of danger to themself or others, or just the knife.
 
I am always amused by how many people think a knife should normally be about as sharp as a screw driver.
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This is because 99% of people do not have sharp knives. I ALWAYS warn people, even my friends (who know my knives are sharp :)), when I hand them a sharp knife.

I have yet to get a full account of the carnage that occurred when my mother was ill and had people coming in to help cook. :)


Steve-O
 
I enjoyed watching a friend use my REKAT Pioneer (rather thick blade for a folder) to slice a lime into paper thin slices for his gin and tonic.

I too warn people that my knife is sharp. However, it's not necessary as none of them do stupid things with knives (yet).

Chris
 
I take a perverse joy from watching people cut themselves with my knives, as long as neither them nor my knives get hurt in the process. Of course some of my friends think I'm a sadist, so take it for what it's worth. :)
 
How many dopes take a knife from you with the warning, "It's sharp," and immediately test the edge with their thumb. "What? dont you trust me? Do you understand what SHARP means? You do know that there is a veign in your' thumb big enough to take a pulse off of right?"
On testing the edge, I never shave my arm. The police have for years recognized this as a flag for a knife fighter, and it even shows which hand to expect it in. I have tatoos, but nothing taht sticks out from under my shirt.
The name Social Chameleon is all about blending into society, and that means attention to little details like that.
 
You know, you're right... I seem to enjoy watching ppl slice into themselves with any knife I sharpen.

co-workers, friends, the owner of Cutting Edge...

They seem to have a few phases...

them: can I look at that knife?
me: careful, I just sharpened it!
them (testing edge by running along edge): ni--DAMN that's sharp!
me (grabbing band-aid): told you it was sharp

or:

them: can I borrow your knife?
me: it's sharp
them (coming back 5 minutes later, eyes bugging out of head): you're right...
me getting something to stop blood and a bandaid


I just gets me how some ppl don't know a sharp knife. Saw an old friend today, stopped to get his knife sharpened... I was in the back doing mine for free and he was paying $5 for his... had to redo his edge totally, he went too long without touching it up.

Even the owner of Cutting Edge(my spydie supplier) cut himself today(1st time in 5 months he tells me), testing the edge on my freshly sharpened Wegner jr. I asked him and he left me use the 204 in back, spent 5 minutes touching up my edge(40/60) and then he asked to see how sharp it was(thinking it was new to me)...

he tested it by trying to shave hair off his arm(as he always does every time I see him testing them), and now he has a small gash in his arm. Pushed too hard and the plain edge(with a wire edge on it) cut into his arm just enough to draw blood. Funny as hell... handles every knife that comes in for QC between company and customer, to get anything as minor as it may be, and cuts himself on my knife...
 
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