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Old 04-01-2009, 03:58 PM
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...seems that Drac knows WAY TOO MUCH 'bout cheese....
Or maybe in just over 24 hours this thread has generated 14 replies, indicates we all could stand to know more?
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Old 04-02-2009, 05:13 AM
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Hey, gotta be careful with the "push-cheesers", some states have laws. Wonder if we offered sheaths that looked like boxes we could slide under the radar?
I want to see someone forge the Wire slicer.

The two handled chopper reminds me of the old corner country store that had the big round of hoop cheese on a chopping board with a built in pivoting chopper. Had a glass dome to keep most the flys from getting away.
Granddy's rabbit hunting lunch - hunk of hoop cheese, a pickled pigs foot, one of them green pickled eggs, hand full of sody crackers from the barrel, and a Redrock......now that will get you leaning way left....!


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Old 04-02-2009, 09:19 AM
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...pickled eggs.....yeouw! dem aint fer de faint a heart! or faint of digestive tract.

Black wax hoop cheese- "them's some good cheese" as my pawpaw used to say. Kept his in wax paper in the cupboard, never refrigerated, had to wipe the oil off before you ate it. Red wax hoop cheddar is my favorite.


So, for a right handed slicer-ete, should the grind be on the obverse or reverse side of the knife? I'm thinking reverse- hold the cheese with left hand, slice off slab to the right with the flat portion holding a straight slice pattern. Otherwise we get those angled hunks of cheese and we all hate that.... ya'll agree?

Then, I think we have established that a flat grind would be best, but a full flat grind or a half-scandi ?


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Old 04-02-2009, 09:26 AM
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Oh man, some of that Red Wax Cheese and some "Hangdown" and you got a great meal. Add in a couple of cold beers and you are good to go.
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Old 04-02-2009, 09:33 AM
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I am REALLY into food, not just cheese. You want me to make your eyes cross get me going on chemical properties of sugar or the various brands of chocolate.

That?s how I got into knife making. I saw a Jantz ad and I thought I can make those kitchen kit knives. Talked my wife into it saying if I learned how to make knives I could save a huge amount of money compared to the cost of a good set of kitchen knives. Over 7 years later an a lot more than I would have cost me to buy the best set out there I still haven?t made myself a knife.

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Old 04-02-2009, 02:19 PM
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I am REALLY into food, not just cheese. You want me to make your eyes cross get me going on chemical properties of sugar or the various brands of chocolate.

That?s how I got into knife making. I saw a Jantz ad and I thought I can make those kitchen kit knives. Talked my wife into it saying if I learned how to make knives I could save a huge amount of money compared to the cost of a good set of kitchen knives. Over 7 years later an a lot more than I would have cost me to buy the best set out there I still haven?t made myself a knife.

Jim
Don't feel lonely there, I'm also really into Food, but more on the consumptions side of things. My wife is an outstanding cook, and is really into the Food Network.
So I get exposed to a lot of Cooking and the Gourmet thing.
Quite a step for an Iowa country boy who thought Gourmet was a rubber washer used to protect wires (AKA Grommet).
Incidently the Maytag Blue Cheese so highly prized by the famous chefs, is made in the town I grew up in.

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Old 07-23-2009, 08:57 PM
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Talking Cheese Knife born !

It's been a long time coming......but here it is-

1/8" ATS-34, flat ground, OAL 8.5", customer's whitetail crown, some dubious wood block piece I had laying around (maybe cocobola?)

...probably not gonna be on my everyday list of designs available...but I thought it came out pretty good.
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Old 07-24-2009, 05:22 AM
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Dennis I think that came out pretty good, in fact it looks great. That will catch everyones eye when the cheese ball comes out.
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