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The 7 Most Preposterous Sexual Positions People Claim to Use
According to a pamphlet I found in the bathroom of the library downtown, there's a lot more going on in sex than you may have guessed. For instance, did you know you can do it different ways? And with someone else? It's quite the circus. Grab some popcorn and a clown!
In my limited sexing, I've enjoyed a few of the different fruits the Humptree has to offer, but there's a lot out there, and some of it seems like it was made up just so someone could say they did it, with little consideration for the practical and, dare I say, sensual benefits of such a maneuver. Let's take some time to go over some of the sexual repertoire that just doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, and see if we can't figure out why.
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#7. Standing Up
I can only assume upright sex was invented as a way to shame the weak and enfeebled who are incapable of holding up an entire second person while engaged in coitus. I struggle to keep my mind on not embarrassing myself during most sexual encounters. The added stress of keeping another body aloft would be far too much, and the end result would likely be my severed dingle and her greatly bruised ass with my foot in it.
I don't feel like there are many upsides to sex in this position. It's possible the woman enjoys some kind of lofty, weightless feeling, being tossed about like a sack of potatoes, but as a guy who could probably hump a sack of potatoes if I were so inclined, I'm not seeing the benefit. In fact, I just went to my kitchen, grabbed a bag of potatoes and held it close, and no, nothing. Even if I had put my dick in it, I feel like it would have been a loss for me.
#6. 69
As far as my brain is able to help me recall, this was the third sex position I was aware of. I knew you could be on top, I knew you could be behind, then somehow I knew you could gobble each others' hogs. I'm sure I picked it up in a conversation in the schoolyard, or maybe in an errant porno magazine I had gotten my hands on. Whatever the case, the 69 is a staple of sexing, and I challenge you to find someone who does not have at least one sad 69 story. It may be as popular as hell, but every sex advice website lists this as a "least favorite." It's like the Nickelback of humping.
The problem with 69ing is entirely logistical. On paper it sounds awesome -- you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, then later we lick crotches. High-five! But in practice, you're kneeling and squatting over faces, things don't line up right, you miss your mark and have breathing issues, one of you forgets to hold up your end of things, a stray teste in the eye detaches a retina, and the list goes on. It's really impractical, reversing the natural order of things for the sake of some monkey shines.
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"You put what where? LULZ!"
Now, sure, if you and your partner are of a similar size and complementary shapes, this may work out like gangbusters. When you ease into a 69 a golden light may flood the room and a soft, warming hum may fill the air to comfort you both and egg you on in your oral machinations, but likely most people fit together like a bulldog trying to get into a chihuahua's sweater.
#5. Wheelbarrow
Of all the yard tools in your grandparent's shed, do any of them evoke fewer sexy feelings than the wheelbarrow? Is "barrow" a word you want associated with your personal lubricants? And if the name isn't bad enough, it's basically the same manual labor you'd be engaging in with an actual wheelbarrow, only now there's a penis in it. If you went to Home Depot and found a wheelbarrow with a dick in it, you'd not buy that wheelbarrow, because now, for all intents and purposes, it's a dickbarrow, and no one wants that.
The wheelbarrow presupposes that the man feels the need to do some lifting whilst doing his thrusting and the lady is so good at doing pushups that she's OK with holding one for the entire duration of a sexual interlude. It's work for both parties on top of the physical exertion you normally enjoy during sex. Now, maybe I'm a pathetically out of shape man-lump (there's no maybe about it: I'm like a sentient beanbag chair), but I can't even begin to imagine doing simulated yardwork while having sex. It starts with wheelbarrows, but where does it end? Pruning? Post-hole digging? Rototillers? My god, the testicular bruising would be unheard of.
#4. The Waterfall
They call this position the waterfall because, like the beautiful natural phenomenon it is named after, it will kill you. If you're unfamiliar and unable to discern the logistics based on the diagram, allow me to elucidate. The woman waits patiently on the bed for the man to shed himself of any sense of self-preservation. Then he crumples himself like a crash test dummy over the end of the bed, ensuring his sex bits stay rooted on the mattress while the rest of his body collapses like a drunken fool forever caught during his spastic solo time to shine on a mid '70s episode of Soul Train. His head rests on the floor so he's able to see what he did wrong in pursuing this position.
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"Your bush is as robust as mine!"
The woman is allowed to have probably a solid several minutes of hobby-horse riding thrills before the man's ass slides off the bed and sends her crashing onto his already impaired carcass below or, assuming your sheets have a bit of texture and aren't letting you creep away so easily, she gets the same thrill she'd get if she sat on a pickle. The man, at this point, is likely blacking out from his blood having no idea which head it needs to settle in, but at least there will be some back cramping and maybe the ever-elusive ass Charley horse. Try massaging that one out without people looking at you funny.


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Cheektowaga police officers on foot patrol arrested a man who had a loaded, stolen handgun in his waistband, town police reported Tuesday.
Officers Scott Leising and Mike Smith were participating in a traffic checkpoint Sunday evening at Pine Ridge Road and Walden Avenue when they stopped a SUV for a broken brake light and other, unspecified violations of vehicle and traffic law.
While speaking to the driver, the officers smelled burning marijuana, a police department spokesman said. A passenger was found with a loaded 40-caliber handgun in his waistband. The gun had been reported stolen in Raleigh, N.C. this past January.
Lorenza Hinton, 35, of Kerns Avenue, Buffalo, was charged with two weapons-related felonies and a violation count of unlawful possession of marijuana. He also was wanted in North Carolina for violating probation on another gun-related charge, police said.
Following arraignment before Town Justice Dennis Delano, who set bail at $250, Forrest was taken to the Erie County Holding Center. Authorities in North Carolina are seeking extradition, police said.


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Real image of the HTC M7 appears?
0. phoneArena 20 Jan 2013, 12:12 posted on
A few days ago, @evleaks revealed an image of a phone that was taken straight from a SIM card installation tutorial found on the firmware for the HTC M7, so naturally it was thought that perhaps this image was that of HTC's next flagship handset; as it turned out, the phone pictured was not the HTC M7 but now we have a picture that appears to be that of the HTC M7...
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1. Joshing4fun (Posts: 1236; Member since: 13 Aug 2010)
This is the best design they could come up with? :-/
9. MeoCao (unregistered)
This is ugly, it's essentially the WP 8X with Android interface.
Beside the bezels are too thick.
12. abdane (Posts: 494; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
yup, exactly what i thought...
38. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Me too. Why is HTC stepping backward with a 4.7 inch screen when the DNA has a 5 incher? (Confused)
39. 14545 (Posts: 1535; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Personally, there are many of us that want a 4.3-4.5 inch phone. 5 inches are just to big to be used with one hand comfortably, unless you are Lebron James. I don't like *having* to use my phone with two hands. And I d@mn sure don't want a stupid iphone. But that's not the crime here, it's that ugly square design.
57. jroc74 (Posts: 6005; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
I agree with you. The bigger phones are getting popular...but the GS3 might be the absolute biggest size I want in a phone.
Its not called stepping backwards...its called choices. A company knows everyone wont like a bigger phone. Samsung doesnt make all their phones Note size.
71. MeoCao (unregistered)
The size of the phone is not screen size but the overall dimensions. Xperia Z is just as big as GS3, ZL is even smaller.
81. Android4u (Posts: 456; Member since: 16 Aug 2012)
4.7 is not a step backwards... Oh yeah cause .3mm is so noticeable...
90. squallz506 (banned) (Posts: 1075; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
.3" not .3mm
86. lallolu (Posts: 471; Member since: 18 Sep 2012)
I believe 4.7 - 4.8 is enough for a phone so if HTC really use this display size and keep the screen resolution, it will be a bad a** phone and I am sure there are many like me that will queue to by it. I just hope the battery capacity is higher than they have presently in their phones.
89. PhenomFaz (Posts: 1236; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
this image looks more like a msh up render of a droid dna....most likely and hopefully not the real thing
61. Nadr1212 (Posts: 741; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)
I don't really care about bezels as long as a fone meets my standards
73. danny_a2005 (Posts: 165; Member since: 06 Oct 2011)
Cmon that is soooo fake... FAKE
27. RiseAgainst94 (Posts: 281; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
How is the 8X ugly!? Have you felt that thing? The pillowy shaped soft touch back and incredibly thin design is a thing to behold. This looks more like a Sony device to me, One X is much prettier.
72. MeoCao (unregistered)
8X looks like a toy not a serious device.
82. RiseAgainst94 (Posts: 281; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
Maybe if you get the lime green one? The 8X is a handsome device, sleek and classy.
84. MeoCao (unregistered)
The main thing I don't like about 8X is the screen is flat. All top phones have the screen raised which makes swiping it from the sides smooth.
And 3D look of the screen is cool too.
94. RiseAgainst94 (Posts: 281; Member since: 03 Mar 2012)
Yeah the raised screen is a really nice thing to have.
96. kelvinhakim (Posts: 2; Member since: 12 Feb 2013)
i do think that HTC still trying to make a phone, not a phablet dude
24. metalpoet (unregistered)
i liked the other image that said "this is NOT the HTC M7" :(
31. zuckerboy (banned) (Posts: 898; Member since: 22 Dec 2011)
peter chou said that 'the worst probably passsed' .They rescue htc with that design ?
41. 14545 (Posts: 1535; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Their worst hasn't passed. Not until they start listening to their customers. The same ones that have been raising h377 on their social media sites about the lack of updates and BS carrier locked phones. Not to mention their failure in the tablet market and screwing over the overpriced jetstream customers by not giving them even one update. You keep acting like that, and don't plan on being in business for too much longer. I used to love HTC, and still do like their phones other than this hideous beast, but until they start updating their phones, and take care of their customers, then they can die for all I care.
54. htc_prep (Posts: 303; Member since: 09 Oct 2009)
I agree. My first thought was been there. Had that. Seen that... And that's boring. I liked the dual grille speakers. Personally... This isn't quietly brilliant... This is loudly boring. I love HTC and their products and have had every high end iteration device they put on sprint. But this looks like the its a culmination of every device of 07-2012... boring and I won't shell out money for a device that looks the same as my old HTC.
2. HTCOE (Posts: 632; Member since: 20 Nov 2011)
hmmm where is the motorola nexus please?
3. ottje (Posts: 22; Member since: 18 Dec 2012)
is in the okay category...not giving me the wow feeling like the xperia Z did
32. FireDragon (Posts: 114; Member since: 13 Nov 2009)
Sony's (and Ericsson's) designs are far ahead in market. Z is just outstanding work of details, designing and strength.
HTC with their current designer team, not doing very well.
4. MrKoles (Posts: 368; Member since: 20 Jan 2013)
hmmm, not bad! Only the thick bezel is a bit disappointing :/
13. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1488; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
it looks like they just removed the WP screen
5. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Zed looks like a more appealing choice
6. AnChrome (Posts: 6; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
I actually prefer the previously rumored photo. Nevertheless, it does look like one spectacular phone.
7. ajac09 (Posts: 1481; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
lol called that a fake the day it came out.
8. sudhar131998 (Posts: 63; Member since: 06 Sep 2011)
I always wanted my phone to look somewhat ordinary but with the power and capacity of an extraordinary phone. I am glad to find a phone like this and I could not have asked anything more, this ought to keep my mouth shut for another two years from blabbering about a new phone. Well done HTC, keep up the good work!!!
But there is quite a possibility that they might change the design in order to target a huge crowd to cover their loss so i am still not satisfied until the phone is on for sale and i do hope it meets all the requirements (wireless charging, great battery and memory capacity, synaptics touch technology, wifi direct with FILE TRANSFER and 13mp always on HDR camera)for this year's flagship other than the NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor which we already know
10. Xperia42 (Posts: 60; Member since: 30 May 2012)
Looks the like the 8x
11. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Looks nice but started to hate white phones though
14. stychill (unregistered)
Another site has reported that the back is just a mock up added because the actual back of the M7 wasn't known
15. imkyle (Posts: 1073; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
This is more plausible. The other one like someone had mentioned looked like the BB10 handset.
16. parkwaydr (Posts: 572; Member since: 07 Sep 2011)
Looks very 8x to me. If this is real its a bad design choice. There is no problem whatsoever building phones for both windows and android, but at least differentiate the phone designs themselves. Laziness won't help you bounce back HTC.
17. papss (unregistered)
Looks like a 8x and one x... It's their design style these days, love it or hate it.. I personally don't love it or hate it.. It's just okay. One thing I'm certain about is the build quality
18. valapsp (Posts: 557; Member since: 12 Aug 2011)
This is somehow more realistic but still UGLY.
19. TerryCrowley (Posts: 194; Member since: 31 Jul 2011)
You people are dumb as s**t. The Xperia Z has a bigger bezel and that's the best yall can bitch about?
22. Xperia42 (Posts: 60; Member since: 30 May 2012)
Your comment about to get removed ^^^
28. TerryCrowley (Posts: 194; Member since: 31 Jul 2011)
At least my comment is constructed using correct English. Aside from the Yall anyways.
34. e.wvu (unregistered)
Well if you're going to bi*ch about using correct English, it's "Y'all" not "Yall."
42. skaar18 (Posts: 33; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
Keeping to the subject, are we?
29. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
"You people are dumb as s**t."
Think what you are talking!
33. FireDragon (Posts: 114; Member since: 13 Nov 2009)
He doesn't know. :)
35. FireDragon (Posts: 114; Member since: 13 Nov 2009)
I have this image, and Xperia Z's image open in another window, side by side. I am not seeing what you saw to make such comment.
51. technut (Posts: 62; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
I did the same thing, and both look identical.
52. Aaron_R96 (Posts: 198; Member since: 22 Jan 2012)
No, I can add plenty, camera module is too far down the phone, held normally looks like your hand might cover it, god knows why they've put the home button on the right and multi-task in the middle, bezel at the top is far too high and looks cramped, it doesn't differentiate from the HTC's we saw in 2012 - nothing new aesthetically, it just looks bland..
Xperia Z design > HTC M7 design
20. andregabeh87 (Posts: 13; Member since: 16 Jan 2013)
Ohh, it's a lot of improvement, don't looks like a super-sized iphone 5 anymore.
21. sadiqhashim (unregistered)
I am still waiting to see if Apple will start making android phones so that I can get my Apple Nexus with android v5.
23. Ronref95 (Posts: 17; Member since: 23 Sep 2011)
Why did they move the home button to the right and put the multi tasking in the middle?
37. Retro-touch (Posts: 273; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
This is a hoax! Either way HTC sense sucks balls, used a friends One X for a week and really hated it and I owned a HD2 back in the day, never liked it back then either!
77. bayusuputra (Posts: 962; Member since: 12 Feb 2012)
This is the first time I heard someone not liking the HD2.. Haha..
79. Retro-touch (Posts: 273; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
I was talking about the manufacturer skin Sense in all HTC phones, I made it pretty clear but oh well
93. Superpiff (Posts: 36; Member since: 29 Jul 2012)
What is your preference in skins or are you a stock android kind of guy
55. IHateApple (banned) (Posts: 122; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
They did this because if some questions HTC about this leak, they can say "It's not our phone. Look, the Home button is on the right.".
25. smallworld (Posts: 484; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Xperia Z is a beauty. That one is a déjà vu.
26. jackhammeR (Posts: 1548; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
this picture emerged about 2 years ago...don't get exicted
30. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1116; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Both of those have been proven fake by a very trustworthy source that claims he has seen the device.


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Photo: Taylor Guido, left, vice president of SGA, signs the pledge to pray banner as Eric Sulava and other friends of Doug Vitale, who was seriously injured in Afghanistan, observe including Sherry Seale, Kim Seale, Jake Hawley, Holly Hawley, SVC'08, Maria Kanute, SVC'09, Jennie Taylor and Max Taylor.


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October 26, 2013, 01:24 AM
Who makes the hardest, sharpest knife available? That model?
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October 26, 2013, 02:04 AM
I moved this here from the Chinese knife discussion thread because it's a great question, and really deserves its own thread to discuss.
I'll start things out. Often, the sharpest knife isn't the hardest. Carbides are the predominant factor in making a knife hard. Yet, if there's too much carbon in the alloy the carbides tend to be large. These large carbides actually result in reduced edge stability, which prevents the blade from being sharpened to as an acute angle. Sandvik 13C26 is widely used in cutlery, and it's a near identical copy of Uddeholm AEB-L. AEB-L was originally developed as a razor blade steel, and it's really more of a medium carbon steel. However, the low carbon to chromium ratio in the alloy results in a very fine grain structure. This fine grain structure allows AEB-L to be polished to a very fine, very acute edge.
The counter to this is that a harder steel with larger carbides will typically hold its edge longer than a softer, finer grained steel. Such steels will typically take a pretty sharp working edge, and retain that edge for a long time.
Another factor is that the higher the hardness a steel is heat treated to, the more brittle it becomes. This results in a blade that isn't very tough or durable.
That's as much amateur metallurgy as I can muster at this hour, so I'll leave this to the experts to elaborate on.
October 26, 2013, 07:58 AM
Oversimplified answer: virtually any zirconium blades. There are reasons you need diamond sharpening tools to sharpen them.
OTOH they're useless outside a very narrow area of use: too brittle. Torque the blade at all and it will snap. I've snapped Zirconium paring knives dicing potatos. Still for what they do they're much sharper and easier to maintain than metal knives, right up until *crack*
October 26, 2013, 10:43 AM
Who makes the hardest, sharpest knife available?
"Sharpest" isn't a term easily understood. Sharp for what cutting task can be different. Soft materials like meat or foam cut differently than rope or some fabrics. Fine vs. toothy edges cut those materials differently and are therefore "sharp" differently. Toothy is "sharpest" on materials that fine wouldn't be and vice/versa.
Hard isn't what most people mean either. Hard and wear resistant and tough are all terms people use with "hard" being said when they mean wear resistant or even sometimes tough. Hardness is simply the resistance to indentation/deformation and is easy to test with a Rockwell Hardness tester, but that doesn't mean the material is resistant to wear and will "hold an edge" for a long time. Too hard and the edges chip and "sharpness" is lost. Toughness also isn't hardness, but it is a characteristic sought in knives to resist twisting/bending repeatedly without breaking. There's commonly an inverse relationship between hardness and toughness. Resistance to wear is often the performance characteristic that people commonly seek since it equates well to edge holding.
It is better to specify the performance you want to see. Cuts rope or meat, holds and edge well or easy to sharpen, keen or toothy, resists breakage.
October 26, 2013, 10:56 AM
There is no answer. Most knives NIB from the factory are not as "sharp" as they have the potential to be. Which knives consistently come sharp out of the box from factory might be a better question, but doesn't help conclude which is a better knife.
I have a Ozark MTN walmart knife that I just sharpened up that is a razor right now but it doesn't make it a better knife than the BK 14 I use to make kindling by the fire because it isn't currently hair popping. I would imagine the throw away razors in box cutters are as sharp or sharper than production blades but it doesn't mean thats what you want camping.
And as HSO said harder isn't always better.
October 26, 2013, 11:10 AM
Hardest and sharpest? A flintknapper. It'll be a small, brittle blade though since to have only "one" edge you'll be stuck with a large flake.
October 26, 2013, 11:18 AM
Little (general) lesson in materials.
The harder a material is, the harder it is to machine. In this case, sharpen.
The harder a material is, the less ductile and more brittle it is.
There is always trade-off, so knowing what you want out of a knife will help you determine what material you should be looking for.
Shanghai McCoy
October 26, 2013, 01:19 PM
The sharpest that I have seen straight from the factory are the Mora blades.
Sam Cade
October 26, 2013, 01:24 PM
The sharpest that I have seen straight from the factory are the Mora blades.
That is a great example of the confluence of fine grained steel, aggressive edge geometry and a thin blade.
October 26, 2013, 07:07 PM
Sharpest, as in cut you the easiest, I ever handled were the original Blackjack convex edge knives and the Microtechs. A buddy sliced his fingerprint off so finely with a BJK that it didn't bleed.
October 26, 2013, 08:18 PM
I can get a pretty sharp edge on anything. And I don't own any expensive knifes. But...
The sharpest knife I have, by far, is a Mora woodcarving knife. It's sharper than my straight razor. The laminated carbon steel is Rockwell 61, or so.
My Svord Peasant turned out incredibly sharp, once the secondary bevel was polished up a hair. It think it takes a keener edge than most of my regular carbon steel Moras. I don't know the hardness.
My Mora #1 takes a keener edge than my other plain carbon Moras. It must have gotten a different heat treat, or whatnot. I have shaved my face with it.
My woodcarving knife has the original scandi edge. My other Moras have been reground to full convex. And the Peasant has the original crude saber grind on it; the secondary is fairly obtuse. I think the absolute sharpness of the edge is limited by the steels rather than the grinds, though.
October 27, 2013, 01:11 PM
The sharpest knife (out of the box) i have ever owned was a Chris Reeve one piece hollow handled SableIV.
October 27, 2013, 01:37 PM
I truly like MORA knives, they are an inexpensive knife that is tough as can be.
Knife steels contain between 0.4 to 0.7% Carbon and between 13 and 18% Chromium. Carbon is necessary to make the steel hardenable and Chromium to is present to prevent corrosion ie rust. In general it can be said that Carbon contents below 0.5% are not to be recommended for professional usage since it is not possible to achieve sufficient hardness. When grinding knives used for the finishing operations, the total grinding angle should be around 25°. If this angle is less, whilst the knife will be extremely sharp, it will also mean that the knife condition will also be very sensitive since the extreme knife edge point will easily be folded over when coming in contact with harder objects. Boning knives on the other hand are ground to higher angle, approx. 35° and thereby up to tougher usage and heavier work on the knife edge even though this is at the expense of a somewhat higher cutting resistance
October 27, 2013, 02:58 PM
Same here .
October 28, 2013, 11:22 PM
flaked obsidian I think is the sharpest but you have to re flake it often.
October 29, 2013, 06:42 AM
Not that this is what I think we're actaully asking, but ultramicrotomes (http://www.udel.edu/biology/Wags/b617/micro/micro.htm) are probably the sharpest, but they do one thing and they're not tough. The concave glass or diamond blades are used depending upon material being sectioned.
October 29, 2013, 02:34 PM
The folks mentioning obsidian have a point. You can only get steel so sharp... Has to do with the micro structure of the material.
If you look at a very sharp edge under an electron microscope, it looks pretty much like a saw. Rather jagged, but all the little "jags" are in the same direction.
When such an edge gets dull, the little jags are all over the place.
Obsidian (or other glass items) fractures down to a single molecule. You can't really get any sharper than that practically, although engineers have produced a "needle" point down to a single atom... Using a scanning-tunneling electron microscope that allows the manipulation of single atoms.
As noted there's a fine line between ultimate sharpness and durability.
October 29, 2013, 10:48 PM
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October 31, 2013, 05:07 PM
I saw a History Channel program on knives and they were going down the Cutco knife production line. At the end was a sharpness tester, looked to be an industrial piece of equipment. Used a special type of paper and the knife was put in a fixture and it was determined how many cuts the edge could make.
So this was a standardized way of testing sharpeness. Dont know where you could find a tester and expect it would cost $$$. Maybe $$,$$$.00
The basic problem with all of the opinions you find on the web, on who makes the sharpest knives, is a lack of an agreed on standard test to compare edges and edge retention. Some people cut cardboard, which is a severe test in my opinion, others cut rope, some cut bricks and complain when the knife fails.
October 31, 2013, 05:40 PM
There are agreed upon standards for testing "sharpness", just not commonly known outside of knife websites.
Informally, those standards are - draw cut of newsprint or toilet paper without ripping, how many push cuts of 1/2" sisal rope before the edge dulls and tears the paper, how many inches of draw cuts of corrugated cardboard before the edge dulls and tears the paper, how many lays of free hanging 1" sisal rope can be cut with one pass, back to nontearing cuts on newsprint/toilet paper.
Formally, there are machines to achieve the same thing and make the counts.
Then there are the ABS competition requirements - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlL1wLuZxw
October 31, 2013, 05:44 PM
Slamfire, the machine you're referring to is a CATRA Knife & Blade Cutting Test Machine (http://www.catra.org/pages/products/kniveslevel1/slt.htm). They're no doubt incredibly expensive because CATRA states there are only 32 in use in the world. CATRA also makes a sharpness tester (http://www.catra.org/pages/products/kniveslevel1/st.htm) which measures pure sharpness rather than cutting performance with a wear factor.
October 31, 2013, 06:43 PM
Other methods besides the Catra REST - http://bladetest.infillplane.com/html/testing_sharpness.html
November 1, 2013, 05:51 AM
As far as hardest, Ragweed Forge sells Ultra High Carbon Roselli knife blades with HRC 64-66. That's pretty darn hard. Especially considering they're scandi ground, sharpening could take some time. They recommend diamond sharpening stones.
November 1, 2013, 06:24 AM
Judging a knife by the OOtB edge is like judging a car by how much gas is in the tank when you buy it. You would expect (or at least hope) that the knife is sharp OOTB (out of the box) but it won't be nearly as sharp as it can get. This is because it takes a lot of work to get a truly superior edge, and it can't be completely automated. So a human has to do a lot of hand/hand-machine work to do it, and that costs money. And there's a point of diminishing returns to consider; how much extra sharpness is the worth the extra money? How many will appreciate it?
Hardness with knife blades is generally expressed a number on the Rockwell scale. This number isn't linear; that is to say, 51 RC isn't 2% harder than 50 RC, it's a magnitude harder. At any rate, hardness has little to do with toughness. For example a glass or ceramic knife will be very, very hard- harder than most steels can get. But it won't be tough. You can easily chip the edge of a glass knife even though it's very hard. So you have to look at toughness, but edge stability is another factor. Many of the attributes we like to have in a knife are mutually exclusive. Raising one attribute often lowers another.
Hard knives may be a little harder to sharpen but not necessarily. Super Aogomi is often hardened to around 65 RC but it's relatively easy to sharpen. Steels with things that make it tougher, like vanadium, make the knife harder to sharpen but not physically harder. In a sense steel is little like concrete, or peanut brittle. The steel is like the concrete while the vanadium carbides are like the aggregate. Put another way the carbides are like the peanuts.
If you're asking which knives are the sharpest OOTB that's also tricky. Sharp can mean a lot of things. A polished edge may shave hair well and push cut so you'll call it very sharp...until you try to cut rope with it and it won't cut well. Likewise a knife that will rip through cardboard boxes all day seems sharp until you go to shave hair- then it's just ripping hairs out.
But as far as OOTB sharpness goes, Mora knives are usually very, very sharp. There's a little variation but you have maybe a 95% chance of getting a Mora that will be very very sharp. Bark River knives are pretty sharp OOTB, too. If you get one of the ones made in Taiwan (not China) the SOG Field Pup is sharp OOTB. And I'd say virtually every Spyderco I've ever seen was quite sharp OOTB.
November 1, 2013, 08:15 AM
The Diamond Blade folks get remarkable sharpness and durability out of their process.
November 1, 2013, 05:42 PM
Judging a knife by the OOtB edge is like judging a car by how much gas is in the tank when you buy it.
Yep, all new knives go on my Wicked Edge for some real sharpening. That's the answer: knives I own are the sharpest. :D
November 1, 2013, 09:05 PM
It depends on a what use you are putting the knife too. General purpose knives about any 220 stainless is going to give you good service. The more specific the task the more the material changes.
November 1, 2013, 09:19 PM
I don't really see this question as relevant.
No matter who ships the sharpest knife from the factory??
It won't be the 'sharpest' any longer after you use it a few times.
Then you got to figure out how to make it that sharp again!!
And that's the real hard question, depending on your skill level at sharpening knives.
Factory edges ground on a CNC machine at an unknown angle with a diamond plate are hard to duplicate at home alone with a old whet-stone.
Sam Cade
November 1, 2013, 10:13 PM
an unknown angle
with a diamond plate
is hard to duplicate
at home alone with a old whet-stone.
A little tweak and you have poetry. :cool:
Sharpest, as in cut you the easiest
Some of my inlaws owned a Japanese restaurant and one of their staff had brought over some sort of gargantuan chisel ground fish-knife, a bit like an overgrown yanagi. After 30 seconds of cutting vegetables with it I -very carefully- cleaned it and returned it to its owner and asked for a different knife. Not only was it the absolute sharpest knife I've ever used it was too large for me to control.
November 2, 2013, 10:16 AM
The sharpest out of the box knife I have ever owned is a Blackjack. Second sharpest was is a Mora carbon steel blade. I can re-sharpen the Mora just as sharp as the Blackjack however.
I find convex edges easiest to re-sharpen followed by the scandi grinds.
November 2, 2013, 09:08 PM
The sharpest, bar none is from Havalon. Not elegant, but they are designed to change the blade. One get dull, throw it away and put in a new one. I think they use surgical scalpel blades.
I bought the first one to use as a "work" knife. They held up so well I've now used them for various outdoor chores including field dressing.
CA Raider
November 12, 2013, 12:06 AM
lots of fancy answers here. i dont use exotic blades myself.
practically - my Emmerson folder has about the sharpest blade for any of the knives I own. the alloy isnt proprietary - cant remember what it is off the top of my head. its one of the more expensive alloys, and it takes a great edge. so check the Emmersons if you want something really sharp. but I'm not saying other brands dont use that steel - some do.
November 12, 2013, 01:16 AM
The sharpest, bar none is from Havalon.
The sharpest knife at SHOT a few years ago, as tested on a CATRA machine, was one of Ed Schempp's personal folders with a VG-10 blade. Unless there's test documentation about the Havalon knives your assertion is just a guess.
practically - my Emmerson folder has about the sharpest blade for any of the knives I own. the alloy isnt proprietary - cant remember what it is off the top of my head. its one of the more expensive alloys, and it takes a great edge. so check the Emmersons if you want something really sharp. but I'm not saying other brands dont use that steel - some do.
Emerson uses 154 CM, the American version of ATS-34. It was the hot thing to have 15+ years ago, but now it's not even expensive to buy for small scale custom builder. Benchmade still uses it heavily, and their knives sell for about 1/2 the price of a comparable Emerson. Spyderco has moved onto more expensive steels like VG-10 and CPM-S30V, yet they keep their prices in direct competition with Benchmade. Ernest Emerson is a heck of a knife designer, and knives are well made: They're just expensive compared to their peers.
Glock Doctor
November 12, 2013, 03:47 AM
In a production knife: Victorinox! I carry a, 'Sentinel' with a thumb-hole in its partially serrated blade, and a pocket clip on the handle. (It's more than enough knife for me; and nobody ever looks twice at it.)
November 12, 2013, 07:27 AM
Just got a new Buck woodsman that came pretty darn sharp outta the box. It cut PAPER! :) Into shreds. I got a little lost with that one. But what can be funner with a new blade but to get some quick gratification by shredding paper?
But this is still like asking who makes the hottest fire. The only question that could be answered is which steel composition will allow for the finest edge. And still each knife is going to vary by how it was sharpened.
CA Raider
November 12, 2013, 11:53 PM
"They're just expensive compared to their peers. "
true. I only own one Emmerson. and that's why :-)
Thanks for the advice on the 154CM alloy designation.
I'm very happy with it.
i would never argue against VG-10. that's a great alloy.
November 13, 2013, 10:40 AM
Been following this thread learning a lot as I go......... I'm wondering though how do ceramic blades fare as hunting knives if there are any? Would require diamond sharpening but any thoughts as to "sharpness" and edge life?
November 13, 2013, 02:30 PM
Billy, ceramic can take a very fine edge, but it's brittle. The manufacturers have gotten better at making it more impact resistant than the early ceramic kitchen knives that would literally shatter if dropped from more than a few inches above a counter or cutting board, but it's still too brittle for any real outdoor use.
November 13, 2013, 04:00 PM
I am with RC here. The question is practically relevant only if two things are true a) you can't sharpen a knife, and b) you can afford to keep buying new ones whenever they get dull. Heck, I sharpen my stanley knife I use for leather work. I use a ceramic rod. Sharpen it before every cut. I use it until the tip breaks off and only then change the blade.
Knife sharpening is difficult but it is a skill that will serve you very well.
November 17, 2013, 03:28 PM
lost this thread so didn't get back timely.
thanks for the response on ceramics.... I'd pretty well figured they were probably too delicate for our purposes.
In my past experiences what I hate most is trying to figure which knife is going to hold and edge and take one with the least trouble. I've found you "generally" can put a heck of an edge on most any blade but the "sharp" time varies immensely. I'd always liked Case pockets but have found over the years most of their stainless is junk, unless you get over the $50 mark. The older carbon steel blades sharpen up nice but if you really use it the edge is short lived. About the strangest old knife I have is an old Precise hunters fixed blade. It originally came with a more or less rounded shape edge which while you could use a hammer and pound on it, it was so tough, it left a little to be desired for sharpness. I hollow ground the edge with a 25 degree finish and have been well satisfied since. Whatever the stainless is it holds a good edge and it still a tough edge.
November 17, 2013, 04:32 PM
Just got a new Buck woodsman that came pretty darn sharp outta the box. It cut PAPER! :) Into shreds. I got a little lost with that one. But what can be funner with a new blade but to get some quick gratification by shredding paper?
But this is still like asking who makes the hottest fire. The only question that could be answered is which steel composition will allow for the finest edge. And still each knife is going to vary by how it was sharpened.
Cutting paper???? That is a sure way to ruin an edge!! Shame on you!
My late uncle used to check how sharp one of his newly forged knives were by swinging it at a length of 1/2" sisal rope hanging from a rafter, if it cut through it was sharp enough, if the end wrapped around the knife or his hand it needed more sharpening.
Added thought: I've been told the proper way to check the sharpness of a knife is to gently rub the blade against your arm with the grain of the hair. If it shaves the hair it's serviceable, if not... "you could ride to town on the edge. You do know a dull knife will hurt you a lot quicker than a sharp one. Get your buns out to the shop and sharpen it now!
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November 17, 2013, 05:41 PM
The Swedish Moras and other like Swedish knives are the sharpest I've ever encountered.
November 17, 2013, 07:59 PM
Cutting paper???? That is a sure way to ruin an edge!! Shame on you!
That's incorrect.
I've been told the proper way to check the sharpness of a knife is to gently rub the blade against your arm with the grain of the hair.
That's just one way, therefore not the "proper" way, to check and is handy since most folks have an arm handy if they're checking an edge. ;)
Shaving hair without touching the skin, shaving fingernail smoothly, cutting news print held horizontally without ripping, even cutting toilet paper are all proper "field" methods folks use to test sharpness. Cutting a soft tomato along with the sharpness testing machines that measure force are even better.
As pointed out, a sharp edge may not be easily maintained depending upon the materials the edge encounters.
November 21, 2013, 03:26 PM
By "sharpest" if you mean "kewlest looking" - that is a matter of perference! LOL
If you mean able to get the cutting edge to the smallest width possible, then the white blade ceramic, zirconium dioxide (ZrO2; also known as zirconia) comes in as #2, and the black blade ceramic, Zirconium Carbide is #1. Both, however, are very very brittle - made more for slicing than anything else. Next best and most useful is a high carbon steel. Preferably, one made in the traditional Japanese fashion
( http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/japb/hd_japb.htm ) or of damascus steel.
I've had my Zirconium Dioxide in the kitchen for over a decade and my Carbide is 8 years old, both are as sharp as the day I bought them - never sharpened.
November 22, 2013, 01:04 AM
I'll let the others talk about what the sharpest knife is and tell you what the sharpest knife I've ever seen come out of a box. It was a Seki Japan made 440C knife branded under the Walther name. It has a skeletonized blade and is only a couple inches long. It also has a mirror polished blade and is capable of cutting the tissue paper the knife came in using only the weight of the knife. A close second was a Japanese made Gerber also made of 440C. I see a pattern here.
December 2, 2013, 03:27 PM
Since regrinding it, I am simply fascinated with the blade on my Svord Peasant. It sharpens incredibly fast and easy. I feel like a monkey could sharpen this knife. And that edge holds up impossibly well. I put an edge on the knife that I was sure would fold, but it just keeps cutting. Periodically running a nail down the blade continually surprised me by revealing a single, unified edge that will still peel a hair.
This prompted me to do a little research. From what I can guess, Svord uses 15N20 bandsaw steel. It appears that some knife makers have perfected the heat treat of L6 and/or 15N20 steel in order to obtain large amounts of fine-grained bainite. The major limitation is that this kind of steel doesn't come in thick stock.
For a sub $20.00 knife, this might be one to try. I have some super hard high carbon woodcarving knives, and this blade matches or beats them all (at least within my own limitations in sharpening ability). The nickel in the steel seems to add just a tiny bit of corrosion resistance, to boot.
Maybe I got one that is exceptional, but this knife makes my 1095 carbon knives seem like pure junk. Between the ease of sharpening and the durability, this is a knife that will more than likely be crazy sharp every time I pick it up.
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December 2, 2013, 07:58 PM
From what I can guess, Svord uses 15N20 bandsaw steel. It appears that some knife makers have perfected the heat treat of L6 and/or 15N20 steel in order to obtain large amounts of fine-grained bainite. The major limitation is that this kind of steel doesn't come in thick stock.
Svord is L6 I think.
I've made some practice stuff from 1/8" 15n20 and it does indeed get stupid sharp...and shiny.
December 2, 2013, 08:28 PM
Bikewer: The folks mentioning obsidian have a point.Naw.
They have an edge.
December 2, 2013, 08:51 PM
What it's to be used for makes a lot of difference, too.
Sharp edge, and retention/maintenance of the same, is what's important. For shaving, a common straight edge is an excellent example...it's sharp enough to literally shave hairs off your face, yet soft enough to properly maintain via stroping. Use it for anything else and it'll fail in short order.
For kitchen use, a variety of edge designs is important, depending on the intended use of the blade. Because of this, a variety of materials and hardness/toughness may be used. Take, for example, the serrated edge of a bread knife vs. the meat cleaver's wide, stout edge.
Hardness/toughness is a balance that's variable and depends on both blade design and intended use for an optimum utilitarian use. Ain't no super-blade out there that is infinately sharp and infinately strong.
December 3, 2013, 06:29 AM
The Swedish Moras and other like Swedish knives are the sharpest I've ever encountered.
Ah the Swedes, they couldn't build ships very well but they did have making high carbon steel down to an art. Somewhere around here I have a book (reprinted in the 1800's) of a 16th century monk describing a Swedish blacksmith making steel. A brick box was filled half full of charcoal, then the pig iron ingots placed on top then finished filled with charcoal. The charcoal at the bottom was set fire then the top sealed. After several days of soaking in fire the now steel ingots were fished out, the "blister" removed and the steel folded to manufacture tools. Interesting story but not worth learning Latin to read.
December 8, 2013, 07:29 PM
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.
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Two special events honoring the history of the Tuscarora Nation will highlight the 168th annual Tuscarora Nation Annual Picnic and Field Day today and Saturday.
"A few years back I started telling people to come and be part of history," said Neal Patterson Sr., organizer of the event. This year, those who attend will get to look back at events 300 years ago and 200 years ago.
During Saturday's opening ceremony at 11 a.m., members of the Nation will honor the young adults who participated in the Tuscarora Migration from late March until May 31 retracing the route their ancestors took when they fled North Carolina in 1713 to reunite with related peoples in New York.
"We are going to honor them with the highest honor you can give an Indian, the eagle feather," said Patterson.
Also during the opening ceremony Saturday, Lee Simonson, the 1812 Bicentennial director for the Historical Association of Lewiston, will formally thank members of the Tuscarora Nation for helping save the people of Lewiston from invading British forces on Dec. 19, 1813. Simonson will present each member of the Nation's council and each clan mother with a "Tuscarora Heroes" coin. The coin commemorates the brave actions of the Tuscarora, who Simonson said used "bluff and bluster" to hold off a much larger British force, allowing most residents of Lewiston to flee.
The bravery and friendship of the Tuscarora will also be commemorated in a monument being planned for Portage and Center streets in Lewiston, with unveiling set for Dec. 19.
"If not for them, it would have been a massacre," Simonson said. "I think it's the first time in 200 years that anybody has ever expressed any appreciation to the Nation."
"This is a good year for the Tuscarora Nation," said Patterson. "The picnic was originally made for everybody to come, non-Indians as well as Indians, anybody who wants to stop in and enjoy the day with us."
The two-day celebration actually begins today with a 5 p.m. opening ceremony,big drum performance and social dance to get people up and dancing in the grove on Walmore Road near Mount Hope Road on the reservation, across from the Tuscarora Indian School. People may park for free in a field next to the grove. Admission to the picnic is free.
People who plan to stay for a while should bring lawn chairs. No alcohol or drugs will be allowed on Nation land. Food being sold will include the traditional corn soup and fry bread, chicken chowder, hamburgers and hot dogs, strawberry shortcake and blackberry sundaes, a local favorite, as well as Indian tacos, made with fry bread instead of tortillas.
Vendors from all over Western New York and Southern Ontario will offer Indian-related goods, including beadwork, crafts and art. "You could come here and go broke, if you like Indian stuff," said Patterson.
The Tuscarora Baptist Choir will perform at 6 p.m. Friday. The Tuscarora Princess contest will follow at 7 p.m., and the Girls Gone Mild band will perform from 8 p.m. until sundown.
Saturday's picnic begins at 7:30 a.m. with a breakfast in the grove in exchange for a donation, followed by a 10K race or a 2.5-mile run or walk. Awards for the race follow at 10:15 a.m., followed by a short parade into the grove at 11 a.m. Opening ceremonies will include the recognition of the Tuscarora Migration participants, the presentation by the Historical Association of Lewiston and the opening of the National Horseshoe Tournament.
At 12:30 p.m., Tuscarora toddlers in traditional garb will compete based on their attire and how they carry themselves, followed at 1 p.m. by warm-ups for the Smoke Dance competition. At 2 p.m., Iconic Albums will present a tribute to the Eagles band, followed by a Tuscarora Indian Band Concert at 3 p.m. At 3:40 p.m., Daygot Leeos, an Oneida rap artist, will perform, followed by the Craig Wilkins Band at 4 p.m. The finals of the Smoke Dance competition begin at 5 p.m., followed by the Sawhorse Jackson Band at 6 p.m., a hand drum competition at 7 p.m., and a performance by the Wilson Brothers Band starting at 8 p.m.
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