Knife Blogging
Lately, I’ve been cutting a lot of things for work. Roll matting, felt, other stuff. This wears on the blades of my nicer knives and made sharpening more frequent. So, I snagged up one of these Razor Lite knives. Do recommend. Each blade is as sharp as a razor. Literally. And the blades are disposable and replaced in seconds. If you cut a lot of things and don’t want to wear out your expensive knives, these things are a good alternative. And cheap.
October 19th, 2017 at 6:51 pm
But then what would I do with my expensive knife?
October 19th, 2017 at 7:25 pm
Man, we throw away everything now.
October 19th, 2017 at 7:30 pm
“But then what would I do with my expensive knife?”
BBQs. Maybe put mother of pearl scales on it.
October 19th, 2017 at 10:56 pm
First real job at 16 was in an old line hardware store in the huge ag region around Lake Okeechobee…bulk chain, bolts, nails, cut and thread iron pipe, Belknap tools and dies…and of course guns and a big old wooden Case knife display.
Mr. Hendrix let us have Sodbusters for boxes, manila rope, etc. until we were going through too many (one of the things that wears out blades fastest is cardboard). I used to think if you could refresh the edge and keep the blade backbone and frame it would be great but no you had to toss what in the 60’s was a $5 knife and is $40 today.
Razor blade knives are for shit so if this works well and is solid and stable it’s a great product.
And I like guy’s BBQ knife suggestion, I mean that’s what you use your prettiest shootin’ iron for, while you probably tote an ugly but tough Glock or M&P for everyday. I like it.
October 19th, 2017 at 11:16 pm
Damned if I could find out where the things are made though, at Amazon, Bass Pro, or even at the maker’s website, that’s annoying. I mean I’m under no illusions that they’re USA manufactured, is anything? Well, Case is, hence their prices. But the quality and reviews indicates it’s not another China/Taiwan thing, so???
October 20th, 2017 at 12:11 am
If you look at the reviews up on youtube, the knife has ‘China’ printed on the blade holder.
October 20th, 2017 at 1:46 am
Well piss, guy. Guess now we know why it’s not in the specs. Backfired on ’em though…it looks good enough I might’ve still bought it even being chink. But the deception by omission kills it for me.
October 20th, 2017 at 1:35 pm
It takes a lot of sharpening to “wear out” a blade, but …
If you don’t like sharpening or don’t have time, I suppose it’s sensible.
October 20th, 2017 at 2:26 pm
I sent the link to my boss and he ordered one immediately. He normally tosses his knife to me for sharpening.
The way he uses a knife, I think he’ll love it. He generally does stupid crap with the blade and has gotten sick of me asking, “How the hell did you mangle it *this* time?
October 21st, 2017 at 11:52 am
I know those blades. Similar ones are Havalon’s, which are straight out autopsy scalpels, and Persona’s pathology blades which fit in a carpet knife. They’re sharper than razor sharp. They’re scary sharp. It’s really a skinning knife, and for fine skinning at that, but if it works for you as EDC, mazel tov, Uncle.
October 22nd, 2017 at 1:32 am
For a longer-lasting edge on a knife, go for a leather strop with jewelers’ rouge or a micro-fine honing compound.
You will do a lot less sharpening.
October 22nd, 2017 at 8:38 pm
Not into the whole BBQ gun scene. Never seen it, never heard of it outside of the Internet. Don’t believe it really happens. Wouldn’t care for it if it did. I find it hard to take people like that seriously.
Carry is for personal reasons, not showing off, in my book.
October 22nd, 2017 at 8:59 pm
$1.66 a pop on the refills makes sense on some level I suppose, but even the name evokes the razor handle and blades business model.
If you spend 20 minutes sharpening your blade everyday and get paid more than minimum wage, these make sense. But if you’re using this as a crutch to avoid practicing a critical life skill is when it starts to rub me the wrong way.
I use box-cutter knives too. My favorite work carry at one time was a self-retracting https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006IC2W/ and I’d hone the standard pointy utility knife blades on a super-fine water stone with a plane-blade like jig, then spray them down with WD-40 and store them in the handle. I could do a weeks worth of blades in 30 minutes.
Multiple cycles out of each blade but there was a time factor to get it that way.
I’d always warn people it was sharper than they expected if they went to borrow it.
October 23rd, 2017 at 11:37 am
@Publius, it’s a joke, chill.
OTOH, I find it hard to take seriously those who purport to be gun people but don’t appreciate the art, beauty, history and the social, sensual and tactile appeal of fine firearms, and criticize those who do.
Guns are for protection, sex is for procreation. Gotcha.
October 23rd, 2017 at 11:51 am
Like sex, it’s not that I don’t appreciate it and it can be a beautiful thing. I just think it’s better to keep it behind closed doors. Everyon else seems to appreciate it anyway.