[CWL]

Folks,

My wife has just figured-out how to "bust" me when I buy a new knife! She looks at my forearms and checks for tell-tale hairless patches where I shave-test a new blade! Perhaps I could start shaving the beagle...

---good thing she doesn't know about the spear that just arrived! ;)

[rondog]

SHAVE THE BEAGLE?!?!

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[eight433]

Pics of said blades?




and shaved dog?

ha ha... seriously though, your wife is pretty eagle eyed if she notices little bald spots, unless you're hairy like Sasquatch.

My g/f always knows when I buy something cause I'm like a little kid. I can't keep anything secret, I always gotta show it off :)

[sm]

CWL,

Pay attention here, I got 'perience with wives.
I also have 'perience in how to get two sets of divorce papers.


"No dear, I was testing the razor you use to shave your legs. I am soooo concerned about how you seem to nick yourself, around the ankles. You have such nice ankles and all...
So I was testing your razor to make sure it was sharp, and clean, so it would not nick your ankles".


*work-with-me-here*


Save a Beagle - tell a lie

*grin*

[BHP FAN]

Dude...long sleeve shirts...

[hso]

Legs

[blkbrd666]

Legs

So, that must be why the customer at the knife counter was standing there in his underwear.

[Grizfire]

There is always a work around

Try placing your knife on a tomato (with a good skin on it), don't apply any downward pressure. Move the knife, and if it cuts the skin, your knife is sharp.

Or if you shave your face, just use your new blade on your "5 o' clock shadow," then shave over with your regular shaver as normal.

[rondog]

Better yet, shave the cat!

[7X57chilmau]

Use and Sharpen your old blades more often. Then your arm will always have hairless patches. Sometimes my left forarm is shaved almost clean from the damned things.

Problem is, when you get a perfect hair-popper, it's hard to stop... Just slide along, *tick* *ticka-tick*... LOL.

J

[TeamRush]

My mother was SHOCKED to find my arm Bald one fall...
She was SURE there was something wrong with me, and even offered to pay for a doctor and tests if I would go get a check-up...

She wanted to know what caused the bald spots,
And I told her it was 'DEER SEASON'! that caused the bald spots and let it go at that...

After a while, I finally let her know it wasn't some kind of hormone change during deer season (since all men in my family loose their minds during deer season!),
And it wasn't radiation poisoning or anything....

Just sharpening up my skinner! :)

For some reason, she just never came to terms with that!
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As I sit here typing this, I have a 3" wide, 10" long bald spot on my left arm from sharpening some pocket knives the other night!

[bikerdoc]

Upper thigh above the knee.

Been doing it for years, both ex wives and the current one have not noticed yet.

[sm]

Sharpening for task.

Then once you know what that "sharp" is, find other methods with that "sharp" and get a "control" or "base".

i.e. Sharpen , shave arm, and see how that edge does with fingernail, or matchstick, toothpick, tomato, grape, drinking straw, plastic disposable ink pen...or pull a hair from your head (or use a dawg hair from the chair) and whittle it.

True.
Second wife was using a carton cutter, and the single edge razor blade was "used" and not cutting well.
I happen to walk in, and used my Boker 240, with rosewood handle, and carbon steel blade, to cut what she needed cutting.

"Babe, that sucker is sharp!" she said.
She knew I kept a sharp knife, and she knew how to freehand sharpen, still it surprised her.

I grinned, as I had just stropped that knife on my belt, just earlier. I suggested she whittle a dawg hair...
She snagged a dawg hair, and caught the sunlight just right, and my pocketknife whittled that dawg hair.

She had always just checked her sharpening on a matchstick, or tomato, or grape.

4 pound test fishing line, is easier to hold onto and see, so there is another way to test.
2 pound works, just most folks find the 4 pound is easier to use.


That said...
You may not need a knife "shaving hair sharp" for some tasks.

i.e. cutting rope.
Convex edge using emery paper on a magazine, or mousepad and say 180 -200 grit. Coarse side of a Norton stone, or coarse Eze-Lap diamond.

Sometimes coarse "toothy" has its place. While it won't shave arm hair, it will cut for tasks.

[Mokwepa]

Ha ha, this thread made me laugh---ALL OF IT IS SO TRUE, i know the feeling. The wife does help me find new places to conceal my blades. I am terrified of her finding my new toys.