Knife porn thread

despite being an outdoorsy, knife weilding and happily whittling boyscout type from a young age, i have to admit the fetishisation of pointy things in this thread is quite unsettling.

it's certainly got the creepiest name of any thread ever. did it have to be porn? really? knife PORN? KNIFE PORN? *shudders

p.s. i take it the "reader's knives" joke occured somewhere back on page 1? i'll make it again just in case anyway: "reader's knives". haha. bit of "joke porn" for you there. *ahem.

last one is sick, but isnt this thread just a bit askew from the forum??
whatever

True but;

http://www.lfgss.com/thread59839-8.html#post2262275; and
http://www.lfgss.com/thread56935-25.html#post2251286...

...to name a few.

it's certainly got the creepiest name of any thread ever. did it have to be porn? really knife PORN. KNIFE PORN. *shudders

In light of the horrific stabbing last week, I agree the name is a maybe bit off. Nothing wrong with knives though per se.

Pretty important if you're a sailor or working with chandlery, or even opening boxes regularly.

I have a cyclist's knife, Park Tools UK1:

Looks like a blue stanley knife.

Any expert knife sharpeners on here? I've got one of these

and one of these:

How often do you sharpen and what's yr technique? There's nothing worse than a cooks knife that's anything less than katana sharp.

Looks like a blue stanley knife.

It's a folding knife with a belt clip, and yes it does take stanley blades.

By drawing the blade away from me diagonally along the top and then the bottom, to do both sides.

As a generally rule I usually just sharpen it before I cut tomatoes. This seems to be often enough.

EDIT:

I realise the first description is a bit shit.

• Knife in right hand, steel in left pointing straight out as though you were going to stab someone with a thrusting motion.
  
• start with the base of the blade almost against the base of the steel and draw the blade up and out in a diagonal motion, away from you and up the steel.
  
• repeat with the other edge on the bottom of the steel.
  

^^ sorry I didn't mean to sound disparaging. Where possible I try to keep my tools blue.

Is it noticeably better than a decent stanley knife?

In the habit of sharpening every time I cook, which is daily. I found some blog written by Japanese knife enthusiasts and chefs or something about angles and stuff, properly mathematical.

Our exhibition stand builders use these, they're beautifully made:

I think you're meant to sharpen a cooking knife with a steel the way this guy does at 1.07

YouTube - ‪How to sharpen a knife‬‏

Lots of people get snobby about it, but my way seems to work fine. It's almost the exact oposite of what that ^ guy does.

Yeah the guys in Best Kebab do it like that but with massive kebab knives.

I usually carry a Spyderco Captain.

We got a shitload of knives from different manufacturers. I am helping a friend with some web TV inserts, write stuff for him. Played a bit with a Cold Steel Laredo Bowie and just received a Becker BK-7. There were some nice Benchmades and others in there too, but no Spydercos, which I like the most. Plain edge, thank you very much.

a hand held steel won't actually grid away any metal, it is used to straighten the edge and remove any feathering caused by sharpening. A steel should be as smooth as possible - almost glass like.

If the knife is propper blunt you'll need something to grind a new edge on it, like the whet stone in the vid above.

Oh and there was a great knife porn article in fire & knives last quarter. A chef was showing his collection including some uber Japanese blades he kept shape with a newspaper strop.

I'll try to find a link but not hopeful.

no luck but here is their website - great mag (if a bit pricey - was a christmas present)
http://fireandknives.com/

nice mini doc: http://vimeo.com/31455885

Kitchen knives. Are there any sets out there that are good value for money? And don't cost hundreds of pounds...

robert welch do good priced knives

Always worth a poke around TK Maxx kitchen dept.

offerings from cold steel, functional

have these kyocera ceramic knives been covered?

offerings from cold steel, functional

for what?

derr!! stabbing people of course