WIP give away knife - concluded & winner picked

I just got it in the mail, wow. It feels really light in hand which will be really nice for long bouts in the kitchen. I immediately pulled out the cutting board and started cutting. Honestly the sharpest knife I have used. It was insane how it glided through everything. New favorite kitchen knife for sure. They only possible issue is that my fingers are a bit chubby so to chop down to the board they get a little squeeze. I really like the petty design. I was a loooong time petite chef user then switched to nakiri in February with the daily juicing. This is really the best of both with length and belly. I can't get over how easily it slid through stuff though being so sharp and thin. I could only barely feel the lemon seeds. I will need to look up about carbon knives in the kitchen as this is a first. I cleaned it up and dried it well. I am excited to try the balanced strop tonight. I have been using green on balsa for hand stropping for a while now. I used the sharpie trick last night and noticed I need to work on my form though. I don't want to waste the photo paper stops on poor technique. Thanks again Blunt this is a sweet blade!



















 
bluntcut said:
Final look at #2
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Nice:thumbup:

Cautioning,

It is great that you enjoy it very much!
 
I spent this weekend finish up the remaining 2 knives: #1 - 52100 62rc petty in East Indian Rosewood handle; #4 - cpm-m4 65rc in Cocobolo handle & saya. I like cocobolo wood a lot, all I done to it (as image) was sanded & a quick polished. Performance of both knives met my expectation (at this point in time) - thin edge cuts aggressively without roll/chip worry about incidental contact with hard materials.
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52100 Petty: it whittles dry red-oak (~1300 janka) without performance killing roll. When contact with bone & fruit hard pits, this blade held up well. It will roll & micro-chip when whittling dry olive wood (~2700 janka). Sort of want to figure out what 52100 62rc can handle.

Cpm-m4 Util: doesn't posses 52100 initial crazy sharpness but it will whittles dry olive wood fine. Did 5 cuts & 5 whittles Lignum Vitae (4500 Janka - most or 2nd most hardest wood in the world), the edge is fine. Wow the crunchy sound of cross grain cut were unsettling to hear.
 
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