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> three times sharper than the typical stainless steel dinner table knife The video shows pretty mediocre cutting, but perhaps that's on par with a "typical table knife". There's a good reason restaurants will give you a steak knife, alongside a table knife, for red meat.
It did’t even cut the steak. It assisted in tearing it apart.
what's with the videos? baby hits on the wooden "nails" ? the steak knife is pulling apart the meat and not cutting it ?
"The compressed material showed very little tendency to bounce back to its original thickness."
I love the soft and squishy part, wondering whether it could be pressed into a form to make a bicycle frame to get away from the complicated process of laying carbon layers or the heavy weight of steel. But yeah, replacing plastic throw away utensils should be a priority for a material like that.
If you ever want to get into woodworking you can pick up a bandsaw for a couple hundred bucks and they’re a great first project.
This is awesome especially since I make wooden knives! Specifically out of sugar maple, since they’re nice and hard. I make them to look like steak knives as a joke, but they work great on cheese, butter, and steamed vegetables. If you ever want to get into woodworking you can pick up a bandsaw for a couple hundred bucks and they’re a great first project.
I've noticed that steel in knives can easily be described as a waste. Cutting into food and opening packages doesn't generally need to require steel, for one. There is always going to be the emergency/contingency psychology calling for quality steel in every knife to "save your life someday" but TBH it's a relief that customers themselves get to decide exactly what that could mean to them...otherwise the raging debat…
I'm no fan of prepper content, but as an engineer, this criticism seems really weird and misguided to me. There's a reason we use steel in tools and knives. It's very difficult to find a material that can match the properties of steel. Having good edge-keeping while still maintaining toughness and avoiding brittle failure is REALLY hard.
That is more to my point: Steel isn't needed in a surprising number of knife use cases. I'm not surprised that an engineer wants to speak on behalf of steel and its properties. But that probably won't stop product designers from noticing a huge and tantalizing materials gap, around redefining what makes a knife useful to a consumer.
Fun days for airport security :) How do they handle people bringing caramic knifes today? Would wooden knives display clearly on their scanners?
You can already bring scissors on a plane with 4 inch blades. That's two knives.
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Getting knives past airport security seems not particularly difficult from the experience of my circle and other anecdotal sources. I've had friends and family accidentally get knives through security on many occasions, and I have also accidentally done it myself. To my knowledge none of them has ever been caught in the converse situation and had to give up a knife. I imagine if one were resourceful and deliberate ab…
This would be great for ML. A knife detection algorithm that alerts the officer when it thinks it spots one when the bags go in the scanner.
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Getting knives past airport security seems not particularly difficult from the experience of my circle and other anecdotal sources. I've had friends and family accidentally get knives through security on many occasions, and I have also accidentally done it myself. To my knowledge none of them has ever been caught in the converse situation and had to give up a knife. I imagine if one were resourceful and deliberate ab…
I've had to give up a knife on two occasions.