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When it stops shaving hair.
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soleil- have you carried the same blade for 30 years? :thumbup:
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I don't have a set schedule. Knives that I carry at church on Sundays don't see much actual cutting use, so they seldom get sharpened. Knives that I carry on Saturday doing back yard chores do get used and they get sharpened when I feel they aren't cutting as well as I want.
word. regular stropping or running a blade over a steel after use cuts down dramatically on how often you need to put a blade over the stones. this in turn cuts down on the amount of wear on your blade and, incidently, means your knife is always kept in tip top trim.
Carried a Buck Muskrat for 20 years. Abused the hell out of it since I was twelve. Broke the tip of one blade throwing it in my youth. Used to hammer it through nails like the emblem shows. Put it to the grinder every now and then. Yes it lost some blade width but it was always razor sharp. I still have it but don't EDC anything I can't open and close one handed anymore. I have many knives now and although I intend to have them to pass down 30 years from now (if I'm still alive) I will probably never carry the same knife for that long again. Actually to me that is a good thing.
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It really all depends for me. Generally any knife that won't pop hairs off my arm will not leave the house until I get to giving it a good sharpening/honing. The problem is I have and use all my knives so I am constantly either honing or reprofiling. Lately its been every day. I'll reprofile most knives to 30 degrees when I get them and then use a 40 degree micro bevel to maintain the edge along with stropping. Depending on how much cutting I do in any given day (mainly cardboard boxes and wood), it usually only takes 10-30 swipes on the ceramic sharpmaker rods followed by stropping. Then after the microbevel turnes into a not so micro bevel I'll reprofile it back to 30.
One day this week I kept track of how much cardboard I cut because I was doing a sort of test on Spyderco's S30v. It ended up that I cut 74 feet of cardboard that day (No I didn't measure every inch but wrote down after every box or two I cut.) It takes about 2-4 feet of cutting through the cardboard to break one box down depending on its size. It started out as hair poppin before the cutting and after the 74 ft. it would still cut paper very well and would barely shave if I went about it just right. After 25 total strokes on the fine sharpmaker rods it was poppin hairs again... Kinda off topic but interesting.
One day this week I kept track of how much cardboard I cut because I was doing a sort of test on Spyderco's S30v. It ended up that I cut 74 feet of cardboard that day (No I didn't measure every inch but wrote down after every box or two I cut.) It takes about 2-4 feet of cutting through the cardboard to break one box down depending on its size. It started out as hair poppin before the cutting and after the 74 ft. it would still cut paper very well and would barely shave if I went about it just right. After 25 total strokes on the fine sharpmaker rods it was poppin hairs again... Kinda off topic but interesting.