I got a couple more Peasants to play with. I ground the blade even thinner on these two.
Well, I did find the limit of the steel. I have an edge on the one that will roll when making aggressive cuts in wood across the grain. But even so, the rolled edge comes right back into alignment on a stone, let alone a steel.
On my mini peasant, I put an even finer edge. It shaves better than my straight razor.
Now one oddity I've noticed with these Svords is that the edge works up a burr quite easily, and the burr is quite difficult to remove. After some use with these knives, I might occasionally be able to see tiny flecks of wire edge pushed to this side or the other (mainly on the thinner ones, but to some degree all of them). But yet, the blade still cuts cleanly without catching. I can't even feel this with a fingernail, yet I can see it glint in the light. This burr disappears with a stroke on a stone or a steel, but it might reappear, later. It may be I'm technically cutting on a partial wire edge with these knives, but if so, that edge is sharp and it lasts.
I like these knives.
Well, I did find the limit of the steel. I have an edge on the one that will roll when making aggressive cuts in wood across the grain. But even so, the rolled edge comes right back into alignment on a stone, let alone a steel.
On my mini peasant, I put an even finer edge. It shaves better than my straight razor.
Now one oddity I've noticed with these Svords is that the edge works up a burr quite easily, and the burr is quite difficult to remove. After some use with these knives, I might occasionally be able to see tiny flecks of wire edge pushed to this side or the other (mainly on the thinner ones, but to some degree all of them). But yet, the blade still cuts cleanly without catching. I can't even feel this with a fingernail, yet I can see it glint in the light. This burr disappears with a stroke on a stone or a steel, but it might reappear, later. It may be I'm technically cutting on a partial wire edge with these knives, but if so, that edge is sharp and it lasts.
I like these knives.
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