With what do you carve...?

[Arch]

I don't carve more than about once a year. Pasta doesn't need carving...

 

[Night Train]

I don't carve more than about once a year. Pasta doesn't need carving...

Then how do they get them into all those funny shapes?

 

[Arch]

They grow that way on the trees, silly....

 

[Night Train]

They grow that way on the trees, silly....

I think you will find that that is just the basic spaghetti...

 

[Archie_tect]

[...and Panorama has been making things up ever since.]

 

[GrumpyGregry]

They don't have to be expensive, as long as the blade will hold a good edge. Learning how to give a blade a good edge is more important than the knife itself. I have a £10 pocket knife which I can shave my arms with!

I've shaved with an Opinel pocket knife, one made by little mester Trevor Ablett in Sheffield, and with a Feather disposable scalpel. After all a razor is just a very sharp knife. The last one was a scary experiment/experience.

Day-to-day I stick with my Merkur and a feather blade though.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Those of you using sabatier knives....

'Real' sabatier knives from one the 19th C founding fathers companies in Thiers or some old mass produced tat with the word Sabatier on them?

Yep, I'm a knife snob...

 

[Night Train]

I've shaved with an Opinel pocket knife, one made by little mester Trevor Ablett in Sheffield, and with a Feather disposable scalpel. After all a razor is just a very sharp knife. The last one was a scary experiment/experience.

I used to test the sharpness of all my workshop edge tools by shaving with them.

 

[Archie_tect]

Those of you using sabatier knives....

'Real' sabatier knives from one the 19th C founding fathers companies in Thiers or some old mass produced tat with the word Sabatier on them?

Yep, I'm a knife snob...

Well that's brought an edge to the gentle ramblings.

 

[Arch]

I used to test the sharpness of all my workshop edge tools by shaving with them.

He had to give that up after the bandsaw incident...

 

[Archie_tect]

...Shaun remembers it all too clearly.

 

[Cubist]

He had to give that up after the bandsaw incident...

 

[Trembler49]

All my knives are blunt but the sound of knife on steel goes through me so badly (like finger nails on a blackboard for some people) that they have to stay that way.

Use a stone instead.

 

[Red Light]

Nothing less than a blade forged by Hattori Hanzo will do.

 

[Trembler49]

as said before, the trick is to get a good edge on a blade.

Unfortunately not all knives will take a good edge without a lot of hard work. Your standard stainless steel knife is rubbish. You need an old fashioned carbon steel knife or a knife with a higher carbon content.

Not all Sabatiers are good because there are so many different manufacturers of "Sabatier" knives.

I have found Global to be quite good and also Kin knives from Japan.

I was disappointed with ceramic.