If you like not (or not) a marking knife, which raise new Czech edge "Super Kadet II" probably the right choice knife for your tool chest.
On the basis of balanced and well done "Kerf Kadet" Blade, is this version as his older brothers with the addition of a carbide blade. Why a tungsten carbide blade? Here is what says the Czeck edge Web site:"These carbide blade makes clean cuts and do so almost indefinitely without the need to be resharpened at normal use."
These are big words. So we have in the last few months a super Kadet II knife was testing in my shop to see me by editor Megan Fitzpatrick, whether the knife lived up to its description was loaned out.Here are some of the questions I wanted to answer:
1. Can she so sharp like a knife carbon steel knife-get?2. How long does the edge?
3. Nachschleifbar it?
4. Is it brittle also for shop use?
Here's what I concluded:
Sharpness: Out-of-the-box feels the Super Kadet II sharply, though not as sharp as a freshly polished carbon steel blade. When seems not used side by side with a carbon steel knife, to penetrate the Kerf Kadet wood fibers as deeply as my personal knife.If my personal knife is sharp, pressure jumps into the wood with little and brocken feels in place to move the blade as I. The Super-Kadet-II, offers a different kind of feedback on the other side. It must not have the same "sticky" feeling. It changed gently through the work. It cuts the wood in any case, but the knife-line is not so pronounced.
What is interesting is that the edge of the Super Kadet affect II does not, how it on my knife. And that brings me to my second question.Edge life: I usually post my carbon-steel knives to sharpen each project. But even after considerable use two major projects, the Super Kadet II knife dance just like back when it was new. I can't say how long to take the edge though if it behaves like the other carbide tools in my shop, I think years and years should be.
Focus: So I tried to sharpen the Super Kadet II with my typical workshop equipment. One thing the tool does not do my Waterstones and Oilstones. The carbide was not even as she scratched. However, acts a diamond plate a reasonable work the Association the back and bevel of the blade. I could not get the knives as sharp as my carbon-steel knives, but the way sharpen it with a diamond-plate definitely improves the Super Kadet II wood, penetrated especially end grain.Brittleness: Carbide fraction can, especially if it is offered. I have many lined with tungsten carbide teeth on table saws, router bits, and /-jointers seen after they hit something hard, such as screws, nails, or rock that is embedded in the forest.
I have a knife Super Kadet II had a few times (once by chance, twice intentionally) without damage. A beautiful page advantages of tungsten carbide blade is as stiff. It is much stiffer than my normal knife, with a blade that is similar in length and thickness. This stiffness is a plus in the gearing, if the shape of the tail to the pin board. If a thin knife bends it can actually slide the tail board left or right.More details: like all Czeck edge products, the Super Kadet II is extremely well done in a one man shop. The handle is crispy on the ferrule is perfectly mixed in the handle and the blade. While you can make your own marking knife, it would be hard to make, that looks this good.
All in all is the Super-Kadet-II a primo piece of Kit. Like me, you might need not long life (perhaps infinite) edge of the carbide blade. But if you want to sharpen your knives not or would a less tool chest, regular maintenance required, then the Super-Kadet-II is a good call.-Christopher Black
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Chris is an editor at the popular woodworking magazine and the publishers on the lost art press. He is a hand tool (although he also used power tools).
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