What blade did you EDC today?

EDC Gear for Flashlight Carriers
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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 “sack” holding abrasive powder! Beats me, but that’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 I’ve honed it on a leather strap to polish it a bit, but didn’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 I’d missed as I didn’t feel anything make contact… snake’s head and about 2 inches of body were laying separate like a laser had cut him! His body tried crawling away! Cleanest cut I’ve ever seen, amazing stuff! (My dog went bezerk, wanted this thing bad!) [the snake, he wanted the snake]

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I guess there’s some difference between usual shaving sharpness and that competition level sharpness. :slight_smile:

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Reprofiled my Koenig Arius to 17º 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 it’d do my finger the same way if I got careless… :wink:

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

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Bear Claw Flying Shark:

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Came here to look at some knives, now I can’t stop thinking about how good Pilsner Urquell is. Been many years since I’ve enjoyed one (many) of those. Can’t get it where I live now. :frowning:

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I’m lucky because it’s quite abundant and inexpensive here. There are also a couple of places where you can find it on tap. Can’t you find anything similar in the American pilsner type craft beer offerings?

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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:

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I currently reside in Utah. All beer here is limited to 3.2% unless I go to the state run liquor store. Which is overpriced. :frowning:

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I guess they would ask for a permit to buy this Gulden Draak (10.5%): :person_facepalming:

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What make and model is that sheepsfoot slipjoint?

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I have a noname version but you can find it at GB labelled as “Fura Gear” here .

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My new Fura Gear titanium flipper:

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“usual shaving sharpness” is what Dundee demonstrate.

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The Millie is a framelock. It actually has a SS insert for the ball detent which also functions as an overtravel stop that I thought was a nice touch. It’s an exclusive model only sold by knifeworks.com. When I saw it was down to only $199 I had to jump on it.

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Sanrenmu should release an Adahn SE version like that! :slight_smile:

Lovocoo SF001

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Yes indeed :wink:

But I really like that little folder, too.

Today I’ve just reground the blade of a Fura Kwaiken, the one with the fat flat grind, rather a sharpened prybar than a knife.

Hollow grind is “easier” to do as I thought…


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@Isti I’ve seen your Ti pen and I’m wondering if there’s any titanium bolt pen where I can use the thin refills.

Or is there some kind of adaptor available?

Thing is I don’t really need a standard pen but I often use a silver pen on job to mark leather or EVA foam before cutting.

These refills are the old thin style and it’s always difficult to find a good pen for them :frowning:

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My titanium tac-pen uses standard Parker style refills (you know the thicker ones).

What did you use for the hollow regrind on that Fura kwaiken? The result looks nice.

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Yeah, it’s easy to get pens for Parker refills but difficult for those lame old style thin refills
I thought there must be adaptors for that but I couldn’t find one

And on that Fura blade I used a belt grinder on job with a maybe 20cm wheel, I can measure it later
I have no work rest that’s why I couldn’t make a straight hollow grind with a flat ground tip
The finest belt I have is 80 grit but after a good polish it’s not rough anymore (even though I’d prefer something like 200 at least)

I guess I’ll stonewash it later, I just must resist to grind it again to reduce some of the mistakes I made
From my I learned job that the trick is to stop when you can’t make it any better instead of continuing to make it worse :wink:

Now the blade swings much better than when it was a folding prybar :stuck_out_tongue: