Knife Learning | The Cutting Edge https://blog.knife-depot.com/category/knife-learning/ The official blog of Knife Depot Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:04:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://blog.knife-depot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cropped-kd-favicon3-32x32.png Knife Learning | The Cutting Edge https://blog.knife-depot.com/category/knife-learning/ 32 32 Why Knives Make the Best Father’s Day Gifts https://blog.knife-depot.com/why-knives-make-the-best-fathers-day-gifts/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/why-knives-make-the-best-fathers-day-gifts/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:29:02 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=5061 A novelty necktie. A “World’s Greatest Dad” mug. An apron for barbecuing. If you’re a dad, chances are you’ve unwrapped a present on Father’s Day to find one of the above items and had to force a smile and say “thanks” with as much sincerity as you could muster. If you’re a child and you gave one […]

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It’s happened to almost all of us. You get a brand new framelock folding knife in the mail and eagerly engage it. Everything seems fine as the knife opens smoothly and effortlessly. But, just as you’re closing it, you notice the framelock is extremely difficult to disengage. This is known colloquially as lock stick. Unfortunately, […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/what-is-lock-stick-how-do-you-fix-lock-stick/feed/ 11 What is Loctite and is it Necessary? https://blog.knife-depot.com/what-is-loctite-and-is-it-necessary/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/what-is-loctite-and-is-it-necessary/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:05:11 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=14730 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tom Moore (@thomasomoore) Reviewers on YouTube have made disassembling knives very popular (much to the chagrin of many knife manufacturers I’m sure). No one is more guilty of this than Nick Shabazz — though his disassembly videos are a public service to teach those about the […]

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This post has been updated since it was first posted in August 2012. The vast majority of people can’t tell a dull knife from a sharp knife. People automatically assume that if a knife can cut, it’s sharp. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. A dull knife will usually cut, but it requires much more […]

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]]> https://blog.knife-depot.com/what-is-a-boye-dent/feed/ 8 What is Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP) and How Does it Affect Knives? https://blog.knife-depot.com/minimum-advertised-pricing-map-and-how-it-affects-knives/ https://blog.knife-depot.com/minimum-advertised-pricing-map-and-how-it-affects-knives/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:09:33 +0000 https://blog.knife-depot.com/?p=10569 If you’ve ever bought something from an online store, you may have noticed the term MAP in fine print somewhere. Standing for Minimum Advertised Pricing, MAP plays a pretty big role in how much you pay for things — whether it’s knives, water canteens, or televisions. Because we are a knife store, we thought we’d […]

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