Jericoh
Well-Known Member
Afternoon Gang,
I finally got to finish me knife made form the bar of Elmax from the raffle and just got done testing it out. All I can say is holy moly, this stuff is awesome. I didn't get any photos of the bar when I got it to start this off right, but picture in your head a long rectangle of steel, that's gray, and that's what it started as.
As soon I started grinding the bar, I must say I was starting to feel all warm and fuzzy about it. There seemed to be much less cast off and sparks. Heck I was still downright clean after grinding it, relatively speaking. It also seemed to grind much more easily than 1095 or CPM154CM.
Anyway, I got it back from heat treat got it finished and took it out to play today.
Here it is before the work began:
And yes she is hair popping sharp:
So I got down to work. This is a limb off an oak stree that fell in my back property that has turned into my chopping target. For such a light knife, being on 5/32" it chopped surprisingly well:
After chopping for about 30 minutes, I set out to make fuzz sticks and tent stakes. I didn't get a shot of the fuzz sticks, but this knife is so sharp that it made the daintiest fuzz sticks ever. I ended up making about 20 of them. Then I made 4 tent stakes and used the knife to hammer them into the ground a few times each:
Then I got to playing around and throwing the knife. After about the 37th throw I got it to stick:
After about 37 more throws I called it quits. It's freakin' 95 degrees out here.
Gave it another little shaving test and yes, still hair popping sharp:
I found this little fungus out there. Don't know what it is but I thought it was cool
Then when I got back in the house and got myself some sweet tea, I noticed that my wife's new Victoria's secret catalog had come in the mail. Not seeing her around I quickly set the edge of the knife on the catalog at about a 45 degree angle and with not a whole lotta force at all, dragged it across the catalog. All the way to page 89 was cut clean, page 90 had a slight scratch in it. Totally unscientific but the thing is a slicer.
I finally got to finish me knife made form the bar of Elmax from the raffle and just got done testing it out. All I can say is holy moly, this stuff is awesome. I didn't get any photos of the bar when I got it to start this off right, but picture in your head a long rectangle of steel, that's gray, and that's what it started as.
As soon I started grinding the bar, I must say I was starting to feel all warm and fuzzy about it. There seemed to be much less cast off and sparks. Heck I was still downright clean after grinding it, relatively speaking. It also seemed to grind much more easily than 1095 or CPM154CM.
Anyway, I got it back from heat treat got it finished and took it out to play today.
Here it is before the work began:
And yes she is hair popping sharp:
So I got down to work. This is a limb off an oak stree that fell in my back property that has turned into my chopping target. For such a light knife, being on 5/32" it chopped surprisingly well:
After chopping for about 30 minutes, I set out to make fuzz sticks and tent stakes. I didn't get a shot of the fuzz sticks, but this knife is so sharp that it made the daintiest fuzz sticks ever. I ended up making about 20 of them. Then I made 4 tent stakes and used the knife to hammer them into the ground a few times each:
Then I got to playing around and throwing the knife. After about the 37th throw I got it to stick:
After about 37 more throws I called it quits. It's freakin' 95 degrees out here.
Gave it another little shaving test and yes, still hair popping sharp:
I found this little fungus out there. Don't know what it is but I thought it was cool
Then when I got back in the house and got myself some sweet tea, I noticed that my wife's new Victoria's secret catalog had come in the mail. Not seeing her around I quickly set the edge of the knife on the catalog at about a 45 degree angle and with not a whole lotta force at all, dragged it across the catalog. All the way to page 89 was cut clean, page 90 had a slight scratch in it. Totally unscientific but the thing is a slicer.
