Splitting hair

[jzmtl]

Saw a video of a guy splitting hair with a fallkniven u2 on another forum, and I just had to try it.

The blue line is the line on standard notebook paper. The macro shot on my 6 years old digital camera is not bad eh? Funny thing too that I used my fenix p3d to provide the lighting, desk lamp is not nearly enough.

[Spoonrobot]

You did that with a U2? Nice. More info please, was this the stock edge or did you sharpen it further? Hair from where?

I haven't ever gotten any of my knives to that level. I prefer a toothy edge (translation: I'm not good enough at polishing the edge yet.  ).

[jzmtl]

No the other guy did it with u2, I used my spyderco centofante 3. It was reprofiled to 30° (factory was a bit more than that) and sharpened on spyderco sharpmaker and 1500 grit sandpaper. Hair is from my head.

[Dunc]

Thats really cool  The sharpmaker is a great sharpener and allows you to get hair shaving sharpness quite easily . I've never got to hair splitting though  I would imagine its not a very practical edge as it wouldnt stay sharp for long .

Dunc

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

No the other guy did it with u2, I used my spyderco centofante 3. It was reprofiled to 30° (factory was a bit more than that) and sharpened on spyderco sharpmaker and 1500 grit sandpaper. Hair is from my head.

30° , I hope you like sharpening mate

[jzmtl]

VG10 actualy hold 30° quite well. But I do sharpening my SAK etc at 40°. My personal rule is that anything above 154cm is done at 30 while anything below is 40.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

VG10 actualy hold 30° quite well. But I do sharpening my SAK etc at 40°. My personal rule is that anything above 154cm is done at 30 while anything below is 40.

Not a bad rule of thumb to live by mate

[jzmtl]

To show you don't need an expensive knife to do it, here's one done with my $12 opinel #8 carbon steel. It's not even freshly sharpened.

If anyone's knife can't do it I suspect it's because you need to use finer grit stone for final sharpening, at least 1000 grit, preferably 1500.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Thats very impressive mate

[Leatherman123]

That really is impressive! 

[Smitty44]

If you keep testing your blades,you will be as bald as I am someday,very good demonstration,and camera work.