Knife porn thread

Personally I'd go Swiss army knife or leatherman. The scissors in particular are useful

This looks great, thank you

My 2p is a leatherman squirt and an opinel no.7 Inox. That is what I took touring.

The leatherman is light with pliers, scissors and a nail file (has other tools too, but they'll be covered by your bike multitool).

The no. 7 is light, lockable, sharp and cheap. I would have thought for touring you'd have a reason. I would not buy a non-lockable Opinel.

I never wanted for more in a 2wk trip. Originally meant to get a no. 9, but Super U only had no. 7. Glad that's what I went with now.

If you absolutely don't want a locking knife I'd get a SAK with limited tools. My guess is the wieght penalty will be minor and scissors, tweezers, and tin opener are useful.

... Or maybe one of the large SAK like the Outrider

But the problem then is you've got to ask 'why not a leatherman', but then that's quite big and heavy with more than you need...which brings me back to the Squirt + No. 7.

Thanks all, decided to go with this one in the end https://heinnie.com/real-steel-heinnie-atlantic/

Good shout, in my tree work days I used to spray a lot of tools in hi viz marker paint, usually pink as it stopped the knuckle-draggers I worked with from nabbing my Silkys and showed up best in undergrowth.

I have the one of those with the scissors (the Windmill) and it's really good for the money. The folded steel handle isn't as comfortable as my Spyderco UKPK, but then it's a fraction of the money.

I've got the "Windmill" which is similar but had some scissors tool. They're good for finger nails and the thickest nasal hairs.

I'm always using the scissors to cut labels out of / tags off of stuff.

this is on my birthday list. @Sumo linked it a few pages back in this thread and i have been extremely intrigued by it

Order placed last night, just got the dispatch notification and it’s a birthday gift to myself but doubt it’ll arrive in time for Sunday.

looking forward to the review!

There was a beardy American gentleman reviewing one of these sharpeners. He sharpened a butter knife and then shaved his arm. It certainly looks foolproof.

It certainly looks foolproof.

Any concerns about buyers remorse just vanished

I was hoping you'd pick up on that.

The Reddit part is what put me off the Horl - be good to hear how you get one bc if it works well then it’s a great solution.

Reddit?

I assume the Reddit knife sharpening threads are populated by the equivalent to the people obsessing on weight weenies about their bike’s weight. But when pictured next to the bike probably exceed the maximum rider weight for half the components because they don’t actually ride their bike but spend all day on a computer chatting shit about bikes. I imagine there are a bunch of knife enthusiasts who never actually use their knives to prepare food because they are online talking about sharp knives and ordering takeout so they don’t make their knives blunt.

they probably use E-knives.

the people obsessing on weight weenies about their bike’s weight. But when pictured next to the bike probably exceed the maximum rider weight for half the components because they don’t actually ride their bike but spend all day on a computer chatting shit about bikes.

People in glass houses, James

Went to Ynishir last night, and they were using these in the kitchen made by a local fellow.

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Went to Ynishir last night

Fucking great isn't it?

Sat at the chef’s pass. It was fantastic.

Had the Horl for an about ten days but been rather busy. The new knife from Ynishir/Upcycledblacksmithing is beautiful but was not razor sharp. It is 80crv2 steel but was ground initially to 17 degrees.

So I had to regrind it to 15 degrees as the Horl only has 15 or 20 degree options. I started out with the standard coarse disc but it was slow, thankfully I had also purchased the additional coarse disc which quickly redefined the edge. I then moved through the normal diamond disc, the ceramic honing disc and the 3000 and 6000 discs. Disappointingly the knife was no sharper than it had been to start with. But I had probably only given it a minute or so with the coarser discs and then a couple of minutes with the honing and progressively finer discs. Clearly this was not enough time/passes across the blade.

Yesterday I went back through the honing and fine discs but spent 5-10 minutes on each one, listening until the sound of the whetstone was consistent along the length of the blade. I could see a furry ridge of magnetised dust along the edge of the knife, wiped it off, gave one pass along each side of the blade with the coarse disc and then honed on a leather strop and now i have a half shaved left forearm as I was so childishly fascinated by how sharp the blade is.

It was the realisation that using a conventional whetstone is a slow process, Horl is just a similar grinding medium and its time in contact with the blade that counts. It definitely saves the time learning muscle memory of blade angle and consistency but probably takes just as long to actually sharpen. The stones don't need soaking in advance and the set-up time is minimal, and with the wooden stands it is a nice addition to the kitchen window ledge which houses brass/cast iron scales and the wooden handled pasta cutters. It is much slower than the bench grinder mdf disc option but I wouldn't want to risk that with harder blades.

tldr Horl does a fantastic consistent job, it saves the time of learning to sharpen freehand, but the actual sharpening process probably takes the same time as normal whetstone

@Tenderloin

@Constable_Savage it is foolproof, just not impatient twat proof

thank you very much - appreciate the detailed write-up :-)

I start most things with good intentions which quickly turns to impatience. I'm also tighter than a duck's arse so I think the roller system is a no from me.