What blade did you EDC today?

Be careful with the red color! If you screw it up and make it orange youā€™ll have to find an Irish guy! :wink:

Got a link for that sheepsfoot? Couldnā€™t find it anywhere.

Click the pic mate.

https://m.gearbest.com/pocket-knives-and-folding-knives/pp_1830524.html?lkid=14414766

My apologyā€™s sir, didnā€™t realize it was clickable. I have that ā€œforgot to pay attentionā€ disease once in a while.

Well, it will be magenta instead of red but I donā€™t think I can get orange anyways :wink:
The difficult part will be the coat of arms, I just ordered a 10x10cm plate of Grade 2 Ti to experiment a bit.
Maybe Iā€™ll make a nameplate, too, etching copper has proven to be a tad too difficult and nastyā€¦


So much about anodizing :wink:

RFT D2 version by Lovocoo:

Spyderco Military in S90V with peel ply carbon fiber scale and titanium framelock.

I have tried to find details on TwoSun knives for years without any success, it doesnā€™t seem to be a ā€œrealā€ company, more of a name under which one or several manufacturers brand some of their products.
As always, I could be wrong though and someone better than me has had more success. :smiley:

TwoSun TS07:

Blue Chips, is that Spyderco a frame lock or liner lock? I was looking really hard at the Military/Para Military for the S90V blade steel, didnā€™t see one with a Ti scale as a frame-lock or I may have taken the plungeā€¦

isti, that RFT has a nicely shaped bladeā€¦ seems someone missed something on that frame lock though, usually the lock side is thinned down to keep it from being too stout, they didnā€™t take the thinned section all the way out so it appears it might be pretty stiff to flex, is that the case?

Edit: What I like about the blade shape is that the Tanto style knives were originally made from a broken Samuai sword, using the remaining tip and retrofitting it to a new handle. This blade looks quite similar to my Katana, except for the grind of course. My Katana is convex ground. 28ā€ of razor blade.

The trick is that the real lock-bar relief is on the inside so itā€™s felxible as it should be. :slight_smile:

Are those high-end katanas perfect razor sharp out of the box or do they need any touching up?
It took me almost 2 hours (and 3 beers :wink: ) from a #120 diamond to a #3000 ruby. Itā€™s still not a perfect mirror finish but Iā€™m getting closer:

This one is a competition class Katana, came literally razor sharp and has a little wooden box of sharpening materials, essentially a powder ball! They sharpen it with a dang cloth ā€œsackā€ holding abrasive powder! Beats me, but thatā€™s what the video showed the Master doing, all along the edge beating it with this little powder ball over and over and over in what must take forever! lol Iā€™ve honed it on a leather strap to polish it a bit, but didnā€™t try the old school way. :wink:

Had a Rat Snake after my Labrador Retriever one day, stupid snake was seriously aggressive! I swung the sword, thought Iā€™d missed as I didnā€™t feel anything make contactā€¦ snakeā€™s head and about 2 inches of body were laying separate like a laser had cut him! His body tried crawling away! Cleanest cut Iā€™ve ever seen, amazing stuff! (My dog went bezerk, wanted this thing bad!) [the snake, he wanted the snake]

I guess thereā€™s some difference between usual shaving sharpness and that competition level sharpness. :slight_smile:

Reprofiled my Koenig Arius to 17Āŗ and mirror finished edge, this is the CTS204 steel, was out mowing in the heat this morning and decided to cut the sleeves off my T shirt, blade slipped through the cotton material like a quality pair of sewing shears would, just effortless. Had to keep thinking itā€™d do my finger the same way if I got carelessā€¦ :wink:

Air temp at 101Āŗ with a heat index around 106Āŗ

Bear Claw Flying Shark:

Came here to look at some knives, now I canā€™t stop thinking about how good Pilsner Urquell is. Been many years since Iā€™ve enjoyed one (many) of those. Canā€™t get it where I live now. :frowning:

Iā€™m lucky because itā€™s quite abundant and inexpensive here. There are also a couple of places where you can find it on tap. Canā€™t you find anything similar in the American pilsner type craft beer offerings?

Enlan M08 frame-lock budget folder (here is my review). It would be quite hard to find any better deal out there with similar specs at the moment. :slight_smile: