Swing your knife and cut completely through it. Hanging Rope: Hang a 2” piece of rope from the ceiling and tie a knot in the bottom to help stabilize it.No points are awarded if you don’t chop completely through it. Wooden Dowel: Place a 1” wooden dowel on a table and chop it in half.You get a point for every water bottle you cut through, but you get no points if the knife fails to cut through even a single one. Water Bottles: Line up as many water bottles on the edge of a table as you think you can cut through with a single swing.They sounded like a lot of fun so we decided to create our own testing to replicate some of the tasks. He is preparing for a cutting competition and told us about some of the cutting tasks that he would need to complete during the competition. Bruce has a Wicked Edge Sharpener of his own, but he happened to be in Santa Fe and wanted to see if we could take his knife to the next level. On Friday, one of our long time customers, Bruce Ripper, arrived at our door with a custom chopping knife made by Dan Petersen.īruce uses this knife in cutting competitions and is competing in Arkansas in early October.
Here’s the whole write up of our process for evaluating the knife and tuning it to be its best for the tasks it would need to do: It was brought in to our shop to get it ready for an upcoming chopping competition: Here’s a quick video of a knife we worked on last week.
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