For Christmas the wife bought me a Queen Cattle King.
I know there is a love hate relationship with Queen's d2 steel. It is a very hard steel.
Out of the box, the blade angle in my opinion is horrible. The way the knife is made, I gave it a 20 degree angel on the blade. My diamond hone had a little issue with these steel. Normally what I call my shaping hone takes about 3 good runs on each side and the blade is close to where it needs to be. Not so much on this steel, I did 3 stroke on each side, and it took 15 strokes on each side to get the blade where it needed to be (the 20 degrees). I then moved to my medium hone, which is normally the hone i start with most knives, due to the diamond is only used for shaping. After about 25 strokes on each side, it was ready to move on to my finish hone. I ran my finish hone on each side until the edges had no more marks on the blade edge for the most part.
Shave test: Did cut hair, but pulled. Defiantly wouldn't want to try to shave with it.
Stick Test: I just tested cutting on some wood, like one would be putting a point on a stick, just something simple. Cut cleanly, and stayed sharp.
Box test. I decided to try it on a cardboard box. Cut it cleanly without a lot of pressure, by no means a razor, but it cut it very cleanly. The edge after this was still good and sharp.
The knife is still sharp. It has a good working edge on it, not a razors edge. For what I do with a knife, it will be a perfect. As I use my knife to open boxes, put points on hot dog sticks, just what ever comes my way.
I know there is a love hate relationship with Queen's d2 steel. It is a very hard steel.
Out of the box, the blade angle in my opinion is horrible. The way the knife is made, I gave it a 20 degree angel on the blade. My diamond hone had a little issue with these steel. Normally what I call my shaping hone takes about 3 good runs on each side and the blade is close to where it needs to be. Not so much on this steel, I did 3 stroke on each side, and it took 15 strokes on each side to get the blade where it needed to be (the 20 degrees). I then moved to my medium hone, which is normally the hone i start with most knives, due to the diamond is only used for shaping. After about 25 strokes on each side, it was ready to move on to my finish hone. I ran my finish hone on each side until the edges had no more marks on the blade edge for the most part.
Shave test: Did cut hair, but pulled. Defiantly wouldn't want to try to shave with it.
Stick Test: I just tested cutting on some wood, like one would be putting a point on a stick, just something simple. Cut cleanly, and stayed sharp.
Box test. I decided to try it on a cardboard box. Cut it cleanly without a lot of pressure, by no means a razor, but it cut it very cleanly. The edge after this was still good and sharp.
The knife is still sharp. It has a good working edge on it, not a razors edge. For what I do with a knife, it will be a perfect. As I use my knife to open boxes, put points on hot dog sticks, just what ever comes my way.
