Cheap Ceramic Knife

[dant8ro]

For all you Canadians out there, Canadian tire has a ceramic knife and ceramic peeler (gift to appease the wife?) on sale for $9.99. The Ceramic Knife (think its a paring knife) makes short work of Dyneema and Spectra lines. Nice clean cuts.

[BrianWillan]

Thanks for the tip. I will be picking one up in the next day or so.

Cheers

Brian

[Lonely Raven]

For an inexpensive ceramic knife in the US, Harbor Freight has some ranging from a $7 paring knife to a $13 chefs knife.

[dant8ro]

Happy to help Brian, I figured there would be other hammock junkies in my neck of the woods. I looked at the Harbour Freight Knives and couldn't find a cheap way to get them north of the border, this just happened to be good timing. There was http://www.ceramicknife.org/ site that had a whole selection of reasonably priced ceramic cutting implements, but 10$ and in town won out. Oh. p.s . the site above has utility knife blades made out of ceramic that go into those nice folding lockers that everyone seems to be carrying about lately.

[Lonely Raven]

Happy to help Brian, I figured there would be other hammock junkies in my neck of the woods. I looked at the Harbour Freight Knives and couldn't find a cheap way to get them north of the border, this just happened to be good timing. There was http://www.ceramicknife.org/ site that had a whole selection of reasonably priced ceramic cutting implements, but 10$ and in town won out. Oh. p.s . the site above has utility knife blades made out of ceramic that go into those nice folding lockers that everyone seems to be carrying about lately.

I've never stumbled across that site before, NICE!

[bcaron]

Thanks for the link! Turns out he's right in town. That Hunters knife looks too nice to pass up.

[wirerat123]

Ceramic knives while very sharp and very easy to keep sharp are also very brittle and fragile, and a pretty poor choice for a bush knife, but excellent for a kitchen unless your are clumsy and may drop them.

I've seen more than one nice pricey ceramic knife shatter on the linoleum.

[dant8ro]

Wirerat,

I'm using my ceramic for ropework, for which I believe ceramic knives are ideal. Cutting Kevlar is no joke but the ceramics handle it with ease. Secondly ceramics arent really fragile, so much as they are different. Cutting with a ceramic on a cutting board, it will last and stay sharp a very long time. But with extreme hardness comes some element of brittleness. The knife will indeed shatter when treated poorly and chiping is an issue with very fine blades when they are abused. Note, however, that steel dispays very similar qualities when hardened to its highest levels. The benifit of softer steel is that the dents can be straightened out of a knife using standard maintainance tools. My .02$