Fact or Fiction: Cutting paper is bad for your knife
2007年10月26日 · Cutting soft paper (such as newsprint paper) or paper with high post-consumer recycled content can cause the knife to need sharpening after only 2,000 to 3,000 cuts. Cutting pure paper, such as bond paper with no recycled content, or hard paper can allow the knife to be used for as many as 5,000 cuts before it needs to be sharpened.
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2007年8月29日 · 2.) Cutting paper utilizes more of the edge's length, assuming a slicing or draw cut. Shaving hair involves only a very short section of the edge (at least wide enough to cut one hair). I've had a lot of knives that appeared to shave well, but usually only in relatively small portions of the edge's length. It's a deceptive 'test' for a blade.
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2003年8月15日 · I have done many sessions of cardboard cutting and I frequently stop them because I run out of material. There are various glues and other abrasives in paper and cardboard which make it harder on a blade than meat or clean wood, but if these are the worst substances your knives ever cut you will be sharpening very infrequently.-Cliff
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2011年8月7日 · In all likelihood, you've probably got a big factory burr (or wire) on the edge. Not uncommon on production knives. If it's somewhat curled or folded to one side or the other, it won't cut paper well at all, but it can still 'grab' your fingernails, as you've found. The snagging/tearing of the paper is the best indicator of it's presence on the ...
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2013年3月6日 · The blade geometry will effect how easy it will cut thru paper. If the blade is a thick edge with an obtuse (45 - 50 inclusive angle) then it will not cut as easily as a blade that is thin and with a 25 - 30 degree inclusive angle.
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2020年7月15日 · A tomato, on the other hand, is heavy enough to allow cutting without deflecting away, even if the cutting edge isn't very clean of burrs. In fact, ragged, toothy burrs on an edge can sometimes initiate a cut more easily, into a tomato. Knives like these will de-burr and clean up very nicely on a denim strop with some AlOx compound.
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2013年6月28日 · Hi, As of now, my collection only sits at 4 knifes. My folders, a starbenza and a benchmade MPR, aren't necessarily that great when it comes to cutting cardboard. So what I would like to know is which knife in your collection cuts cardboard the best and why-- i.e bladesteel, edge geometry...
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2006年12月13日 · The championship was determined by points awarded in five cutting competitions: Chopping a 2x4 on edge (timed event) Cutting a cigarette placed in a shell casing without knocking it over Cutting through a bundle of 5 one-inch ropes (1 point for each robe cut) Cutting full cans of seltzer water Cutting water bottles (1 point for each bottle cut)
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2009年1月6日 · Don't move to finer grits until the edge is sharp. Finer paper/stones removes less metal, reducing the scratch pattern and smoothing the edge. Wherever you start, get the knife to cleanly slice paper or shave the hair from your arms before moving on. The next steps in the sharpening process improve an already decent edge, not fix a bad one.