Knife confessions

[Deleted member 20812]

Morakniv blades are a bargain!

While doing a quick search for knives, I just stumbled on this bargain. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1022960059?pid=557213

I ordered a couple.

$18 won't sting much when I lose one this year.

That green will make them easy to find

 

[Oak]

When he's done the knives can cut the softest TP without effort.

Does @JLS know about this use?

 

[Deleted member 20812]

Does @JLS know about this use?

Helps when you need to ration squares.

 

[Dsnow9]

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I have the same one and love it!

I have lost many a knives but only one was hunting related. Lost a few spydercos while doing tree work and that got expensive.

I blacksmithed my own knife in new Zealand and loved it. Finished processing a deer on my FIL’s farm and set it on the bumper. I still get upset when I think about it.

I have the sharpeners and can use them but hunting I take my gerber ebs and pink tyto. And my edc is a pink benchmade. I’m all about not losing knives!

 

[Sasquatchewan]

I have a crappy habbit of leaving stuff where I shouldn't. Like in tall grass or on a carcass I'm about to flip over halfway through doing the gutless method.

After having lost several knives, I now use mostly blaze orange knives and always have a back up. I've only lost ONE orange knife since I've made the switch years ago which is pretty good for this guy. As for blades, I use replaceables in the field or sharpen knives when butchering.

 

[Irrelevant]

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One of those ate up a $200 blade in 5 seconds. I stay clear now

 

[Deleted member 20812]

One of those ate up a $200 blade in 5 seconds. I stay clear now

I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed (no pun intended) and I can do our entire set of kitchen knives in about 15-20 minutes.

 

[Irrelevant]

I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed (no pun intended) and I can do our entire set of kitchen knives in about 15-20 minutes.

well you must be sharper than me (pun intended).

 

[noharleyyet]

The best results I've had so far is the V sharpener, but I invariably drop and break one of the sharpening sticks. Trying the Work Sharp presently but I can see where I/it could ruin a blade pretty fast (operator error)...

 

[MThuntr]

I use a worksharp on everything but my hunting knife...it goes back to Benchmade at the end of every season to be touched up. When doing gutless method it'll last through multiple animals.

 

[noharleyyet]

I've a new Cutco that's never been used...anyone attest to their sharpness longevity?

 

[rwc101]

Worksharp is great for certain knives.

 

[Deleted member 20812]

well you must be sharper than me (pun intended).

I’m not discounting your experience, just puzzled. My KOA Alpha Wolf knife is a bear to sharpen. With this I can have it shaving sharp in 5-10 minutes, and it’ll be good for an elk and a deer. I wonder what’s different?

 

[Irrelevant]

I’m not discounting your experience, just puzzled. My KOA Alpha Wolf knife is a bear to sharpen. With this I can have it shaving sharp in 5-10 minutes, and it’ll be good for an elk and a deer. I wonder what’s different?

The user.

It was at a buddies house, he was raving about how well it worked, I had a helle fillet knife that could use a touching up, I turned the thing on and pulled the knife through one way then the other way, probably too slowly, and probably had too coarse of band on it. Either way 1/4 to 3/8 of the blade was gone, and it was a pretty thin knife to start. It's still usable, so my initial post was an exaggeration, but it definitely took many decades of sharpening off it's life.

 

[Tiredofthebickering]

The user.

It was at a buddies house, he was raving about how well it worked, I had a helle fillet knife that could you a touching up, I turned the thing on and pulled the knife through one way then the other way, probably too slowly, and probably had to coarse of band on it. Either way 1/4 to 3/8 of the blade was gone, and it was a pretty thin knife to start. It's still usable, so my initial post was an exaggeration, but it definitely took many decades of sharpening off it's life.

They can take a lot of metal off really quick if you're not careful. Your buddy is a goober for not showing you first lol. I never use the coarse belts on a knife (per their recommendations) . If a knife has any bit of an edge it's like 2 - 4 fast pulls through the medium belt and a dozen or so fast pulls on the fine belt. With a filet knife, or anything just needing a minor touch up I'd just go right to the fine belt.

 

[noharleyyet]

I’m not discounting your experience, just puzzled. My KOA Alpha Wolf knife is a bear to sharpen. With this I can have it shaving sharp in 5-10 minutes, and it’ll be good for an elk and a deer. I wonder what’s different?

D2 or 440c?

 

[Deleted member 20812]

D2 or 440c?

D2

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

When doing gutless method it'll last through multiple animals.

See my problem is my regular knife will last a season if I'm just using it to remove meat from the critter... but like last season I rugged out a bear and a goat and removed the skulls from each in the field + boned out everything.

My edge is super dull by the time I get through that, so for a while I was carrying a havalon and a normal knife and then using the havalon to deal with the hide and skull. Then I was just like... what do I gain here now I just carry a couple more blades and I'm good to go.

 

[Zootownelk]

Terrible at it as well. Worksharp has worked well for me. So has sending my knife back into Benchmade for their free sharpening service at the end of the season.

 

[TrumpkinTheDwarf]

My knife confession is this: I dont believe that you can have steel "so good" that you can break down multiple elk sized animals without sharpening and still have a hair shaving edge when your done. I may be wrong but I would have to see it first hand to believe it. Also, not looking to argue. lol

I don't know about two elk, but I've done it with one elk. S30V is good stuff. Probably depends on how careful you are about skinning and deboning stuff...