Your Best Cut Ever??

Been trying to pull this cut off for a few days....this is the closest I have come:
http://www.schottworld.com/camp/paper.MPG

The roll is one sheet of newspaper thick, balaced on one end. The cut is to sever the top half of the roll without the bottom part of the tube toppling....I am SO close....roll just falls over....

I am doing this with a knife I made which is sharp enough to make a tiny fuzz stick out of a human hair (wish my camera was good enough to take a pic of that)

Heres the knife:
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maximus otter said:
My best cut ever is yet to come. I do, however, have photos of a few which have impressed me:
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Yeah! They sure as heck impress me too! How in the world did you achieve the soda can cut? Were you holding the can or was it your wife? :)

Seriously, how did you secure the can and the paper rolls? Or is this a professional secret?

It appears that all of these cuts were downward diagonal cuts, is that correct?

Nick
 
TikTock said:
I am doing this with a knife I made which is sharp enough to make a tiny fuzz stick out of a human hair (wish my camera was good enough to take a pic of that)[/IMG]
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TikTock, that is one beautiful knife... great work there man. :thumbup:

Nick
 
I have posted this before. Sliced a hair in half and then sliced a half in half:

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Best cut was probably of a jammed seatbelt after rolling my Jeep a few months ago. I rolled My jeep down a deep ditch, and when it stopped I was unhurt, but the Jeep was on its side, passenger side down, so I was basically hanging there from the seatbelt, and could not get it to unbuckle. Luckly I had my Spyderco Centofante III in my waistband (no pockets, I was on my way back from MA class and was wearing gi pants). I cut the seatbelt and climbed out of the drivers side window, just moments before the Jeep exploded.


OK, I made up the part about the Jeep exploding, but it makes the story a lot more interesting. The rest of it is true.
 
VegasNick said:
Yeah! They sure as heck impress me too! How in the world did you achieve the soda can cut? Were you holding the can or was it your wife? :)

Seriously, how did you secure the can and the paper rolls? Or is this a professional secret?

It appears that all of these cuts were downward diagonal cuts, is that correct?

Nick
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If done right, neighter should have to be secured at all. Ive seen people do clean paper tube cuts and tin can cuts leaving the bottoms standing. I think the key is not only the downward cutting force, but a drawing stroke, so you are slicing across and down at the same time.

My recent knife would cut better if it wasn't made to chop. While its important to be sharp, i was more concerned that it could chop twice through a 2x4 and still be shaving sharp and have no edge damage than I was its paper cutting ability. Any ultra thin knife should be able to pull off the fine slicing tasks....im trying to find a medium ground where I can perform the paper tube slice, then hack a 2x4 in half, cleave some cans, and finish off my having the edge still be hair-popping sharp.....
 
My most impressive cut ever involved a Swedish hand forged axe and unfortunately my left thumb. My father recieved the axe for Christmas and being the blade freak I am I had to pick it up and ooh and aah over it, it was pretty, had a nice balance to it and was shaving sharp. I go to put it back in it's leather sheath (which was a tight fit) and it slips, moving in an arc right through my left thumb :O Did I mention that it was shaving sharp?

I don't remember handing the axe back to Dad, I do remember running like mad for the paper towels (Which I consider an essential part of any first aid kit after I stopped minor arterial bleeding with some a bit back...). The cut made a nice hemispherical cut round the thumb by the webbing, going straight to the bone, (had it been at a joint I'm sure it would have severed the thumb completely. It didn't bleed much, and didn't hurt much (untill later...)

So there I was in the ER on Christmas Day with a host of other people (Mostly kids) who had been hurt by thier presents (falling off bikes, getting whacked with new baseball bats, etc...) trying to explain to the staff exactly what had happened. Evidently I had the most interesting injury of the day as I have never waited a shorter time to be seen in the ER. As the nurse was stitching my wound, she complelments me for cutting myself with something nice and sharp, as it made repairing the wound easier...

So in the Norse tradition, Dad and I named the axe "Thumb Biter"; and I refer to that Christmas as "My Bloody Christmas".

I'll post a scar picture later

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Here we have two good stories, one by ginshun and one by Nightwatch... two good stories with two great endings... real or imagined. Thanks guys.

Nick
 
VegasNick said:
Jeez... how do you guys do this stuff? I usually have trouble getting the wrapper off of a DVD!

Nick
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Lots of practice? :) For me to be able to do that I first had to go through years of playing around with various sharpening methods and techniques and learning how to properly sharpen a knife and learning to understand exactly what is happening when you sharpen a knife.

For slicing the shrink wrap off a DVD a nice sharp blade is the way to go.
 
WadeF said:
For slicing the shrink wrap off a DVD a nice sharp blade is the way to go.
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Ohhh! So that's it... I was using a dull knife... duh... :)

It's interesting what you say about sharpening. You opened my eyes to the fact that for ultimate performance, you really have to understand sharpening; not just how to do it but what is actually happening, maybe even on a molecular level. It would be important to understand the edge in order to understand how it cuts.

I have noticed on factory sharpening of say, my Blur, when closely inspected it has vertical lines in it. I thought it should look smooth and polished. Then I wondered if these lines acted essentially as micro saw-teeth.

Where can I get more information on creating an edge and what it should look like?

Thanks,

Nick
 
Okay, so this one doesn't involve one of my knives, although I did have one available. When my first son was born, I was allowed to cut the umbilical cord. Some very sharp smallish scissors, and 'snip' he's now part of this wonderful world. Brought a tear to my eye, and a few blood splatters on my shirt. "Best cut...Ever!"

Daniel
 
I'm still dreaming of when I can save the day with my trusty knife, perhaps to free someone from a car wreck hanging from a jammed seatbelt or similar. :D

The best cut I can remember was one day visiting some friends who were forging knives back in 1990 or so. The had a long, thin fixed blade they were using to show me how they could cut a free hanging one inch rope. It worked okay.

Then I asked if I could try it, and I think they thought with their knife. I wanted to try it with the Buck model 422 "Buck Lite" (like a model 112) I was carrying at the time. They didn't laugh, but I don't think they believe a three inch blade would do it.

So I opened my knife and I took one swing at it. The big chunk of rope I severed rather easily hit the ground pretty much below and we were all surprised! I have fast hands, I was strong then, my knife was really sharp, and evidently I had good technique.
 
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