Why is my Leek magnetic?

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_habit_

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I was just holding it up to the monitor to see if the pictures on spydercos sight are life-size (are they?) and I noticed the color messing up, so I just tested the leek on a couple metal things lying around the desk and the handle and the blade pick it up... why?
 
They probably use magnetic clamps when making the knife and the blade becomes magnetic .It can be removed with a degaussing tool.
 
Strange lol... I don't think it was magnetic prior to sending it in to get the AO fixed.


I'm not so sure it's so important to me that I would go out and buy something to degauss it.
 
Golly... you can use it as a compass...hehehe. Seriously... this does not hurt anything except magnetic media type of stuff!
 
_habit_ said:
I was just holding it up to the monitor to see if the pictures on spydercos sight are life-size (are they?) and I noticed the color messing up, so I just tested the leek on a couple metal things lying around the desk and the handle and the blade pick it up... why?
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The process of sharpening a blade can magnitize it. Repeated movement over the blade can re-align the molecules (plus & minus) in the blade, which in effect magnetizes it. So if you've sharpened it, you may have done it yourself.
 
Also dropping steel can do this. I dropped my multi-tool and it now can pick up screws.:D
 
wwells20 said:
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shead!:D

But I do have a magnetic personalty!
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Hehe... well, while that thought was in the back of my head, I wasn't sure if it was true... lolscienceclassbbqwtf? Meh, at the rate I drop the knife maybe that'll do it.


And I did just sharpen it myself today, but that handle is magnetic too, so I dunno.
 
i have a couple of knives that are magnetic too. I think it come from when they grind steel, as in the blade...and handle shape. Something with grinding and it aligns atoms and such. You might want to ask someone on here smarter than myself, but im pretty sure heat demagnatizes steel. Im not sure if boiling would do the trick.
 
you can magnatize screwdrivers and such, by wrapping the blade with wire and touching the wire ends to the car battery.
 
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