Why are blades rarely slicey?

If you go over to the Community Forum, you'll see a thread where he's looking for someone to share a room with in Atlanta for Blade.
 
I always head for Bob Dozier's tables first. Then I hit Fiddleback and Bryan Fletcher's area usually right in front of the entrance. Then I start working my way up and down the isles until my brain is in overflow.
 
22-rimfire said:
I always head for Bob Dozier's tables first. Then I hit Fiddleback and Bryan Fletcher's area usually right in front of the entrance.
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And the TM Hunt booth is just over from where you'll be. In between the Kabar and Fiddleback booths. Doesn't Osprey have a booth as well?
 
Gaston444 said:
... The most prominent example of this is INFI (which is better than many CPMs at true knife-like tasks, again nothing harder than maple wood):
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Gaston, just a quick fact: maple is not the hardest wood. It's in fact rather soft when you compare it to iron woods, hickory, and of course the actual hardest wood, Lignum Vitae - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_vitae

On the Janka Scale of Hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4500 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3260 lbf[4], African Blackwood at 2940 lbf, Hickory at 1820 lbf, red oak at 1290 lbf, Yellow Pine at 690 lbf, and Balsa at 100 lbf).

Hard maple, aka Rock maple is only a bit higher than red oak - at 1,450 lbf http://www.wood-database.com/hard-maple/


... so please take more care in your 'facts'

Also, a quick note, please don't complain about edges rolling or failing on big choppers which you have reground to thinner edge geometry angles. Doing this shows how much you fail to comprehend about knives & steels.

thin edges are used in kitchen knives, to slice vegetables and food easily...
thick edges are used in outdoor knives, to handle wood and other tough tasks...

it's like complaining about a honda civic when it fails to pull a camping trailer
 
I would have to look that one up on the "list". I generally scope out a number of different makers before going, print out a map and circle their tables/booths so I have a plan.

Added: I was thinking the same thing about the wood hardness. Ironwood came to mind as one tough cookie. In my yard, Crepe Myrtles are really tough stuff if beyond pruner thickness. Dogwoods too.
 
22-rimfire said:
I would have to look that one up on the "list". I generally scope out a number of different makers before going, print out a map and circle their tables/booths so I have a plan.

Added: I was thinking the same thing about the wood hardness. Ironwood came to mind as one tough cookie. In my yard, Crepe Myrtles are really tough stuff if beyond pruner thickness. Dogwoods too.
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Dogwoods are hard too, but opposite of Hickory in their stringiness. If you split seasoned Dogwood, it doesn't want to split evenly, just bits/pieces and chunks. Dogwood is my favorite wood to burn, it always gives off good flame and light.
 
And back on topic, this is probably my thinnest blade and best slicer that I own right now, besides the few Opinels floating around in my tackle boxes.
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Yeah, fwiw - Desert Ironwood is Olneya tesota - (the 2nd wood I listed in the hardness reference).

Another common ironwood I use is american ironwood, aka hophornbeam which is common in the eastern USA and Canada http://www.wood-database.com/hophornbeam/ at 1,860 lbf

edit... dogwood is also great at 2,150 lbf
 
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Yeah, Hickory and Red Oak are probably the hardest that we have in our woods here. Different trees will of course be limited to their geographical location.
 
91bravo said:
Dogwoods are hard too, but opposite of Hickory in their stringiness. If you split seasoned Dogwood, it doesn't want to split evenly, just bits/pieces and chunks. Dogwood is my favorite wood to burn, it always gives off good flame and light.
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Never tried to burn Dogwood. I wonder where Sassafras falls in this? Years ago, I bought a candle base (holder thing) at a craft festival in the Ozarks (Mountain Home AR to be exact). I just saw the thing a couple of days ago and it made me smile with the memories. This was like 35 years ago. Crepe Myrtle makes a good walking stick. We share the same woods. :D
 
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91bravo said:
My wife and I will be there. We'll be bouncing around from the Kabar/Becker, TM Hunt, Carothers, Fiddleback and other booths.
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Nice! I'll have to run into you 2 at some point!
I will be checking out gavko knives and LMK knives, then checking out chuck richards knives, then omnivore bladeworks! Then walking around till i basically OD on knives. In which case I'll grab food and do it all over again!
 
That's what it's all about. Friends from the forums that I only see once a year at Bladeshow. Every knife nut should at least come out and see a Bladeshow. I always walk out of that place wiping drool off my face! lol Too many wants and not enough money!
 
I usually end up with something made by Condor. I always enjoy their booth. Joe Flowers is often around.
I enjoy chatting at the ESEE booth too. Rubin is an interesting fella.
I tend not to hang around the Becker area even though I usually say hello to Ethan.
A Dozier usually follows me home.
Haven't found the Fiddleback that I'm satisfied with and their prices keep going up. There are lots of handmade knives around that I really don't need to buy one of their blades.
I most likely will pick up a LionSteel knife at their booth. I would really like to fondle more of their whole line. Blade is the place to do that.
I often pick up another DMT diamond stone.....
Knifeworks has a big spread for Spydies and so forth. Usually something tickles my fancy.
This year DLT will be selling knives and I hope they're successful. It also gets their name out a bit more. I would hope that they would have a big assortment of Bark River blades. You simply do not see their stuff at Blade.
It used to be Randalls with me at Blade. I moved on so to speak....
You can see my problem when I attend blade with the $.
 
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