How to sharpen old Kitchen Devil Professional knives?
These are old - perhaps about thirty years - can't remember precisely.
On one of them I can still read what it says on the blade:
C 0.50 Cr 14 Mo 0.25
Is that surgical steel? (I think I remember the adverts saying that.)
I'm no good with a steel. What about the MinoSharp Plus 3 Water Sharpener? Or what would you recommend?
I just use a simple medium-fine grit handheld stone. Seems to tackle everything from my nice Emils to the handy Richardson Fusion blades - and does a lovely job on my Opinel pocket knives.
Regards,
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:45:12 +0000 Stephen Howard wrote: and does a lovely job on my Opinel pocket knives.
which, of course, you are no longer allowed to keep in your pockets. On pain of being sent to prison if you have not got 'an excuse'.
Governments. Stupidity incarnate.
R.
I had to get a receipt for my pocket knife when I went into the courts in Brum two weeks ago but I just collected it on the way out. I had to hand over my camera too BTW.
Interesting, probably not an Opinel though - they are lock knives as defined the new laws.
R
Personally I wouldn't use any type of penknife other than a lock knife.
I'd imagine I qualify as being allowed to carry one on the basis that it's a tool of my trade...and I could be called upon at any time to make an adjustment to a reed. In any event, I'm a member of the sect of the Ancient Order of Pork Pie Fanciers, and it is our firmly held conviction that we must be ready at all times for the coming of the Great Melton Mowbray - which we must honour and worship by cutting yea a fifth from its body and consuming with relish ( or Branston pickle, whichever is closest to hand ).
Regards,
You 'aven't got an 'ope in 'ell of getting away with that if you got taken to court!
Agh!
Seriously though ( folks ), as a professional woodwind technician and player a penknife is very much a tool of the trade, particularly as a player ( it's used to shave reeds ). I expect I'd have a hard time justifying it if I wasn't carrying an instrument at the time, but then I've always got a sax in my car ( in case of impromptu gigs ).
I suppose I could always carry a pork pie around with me....
Regards,
So you got off then?
Really? Which law, and where is the "button" by which they are locked, as the law defines things?
A quick search on 'knife law' yields this nugget:
3 For a knife to be a folding pocket-knife within the meaning of this section, it must be readily and immediately foldable at all times, simply by the folding process. A lock-knife, which required a further process, namely activating a trigger mechanism to fold the blade back into the handle, was held not to be a folding pocket-knife (Harris v DPP [1993] 1 All ER 562); followed in R v Deegan [1998] Crim LR 562,[1998] 2 Cr App Rep 121. The section applies to articles which have a blade or are sharply pointed, falling into the same broad category as a knife or sharply pointed instrument;Regards,
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