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uh, about those ceramic knives? I don't own any but have had the chance to both inspect and try some out a little. (hope that doesn't make me gay or something...) First, the ceramic is tougher than we'd expect and very sharp from the factory. Second, ceramic isn't that tough and I think would be very difficult to field sharpen. They use pretty good stuff in those. I also don't think they have the same aggressive edge we like in our steel knives, something doesn't seem quite right about ceramic. The Native Americans used many different types of stone for edged tools and points. Obsidian, chert, flint, agate, jasper, basalt and other rocks that would fracture right got made into tools. Obsidian will frature to the last few molecules at the edge. I've worked this stuff before and learned to track the blood trail back to whatever body part was leaking. It really is that sharp. BUT it doesn't have any tensile strength compared to steel and that's why the native Americans traded for steel items whenever they could. This of course was after the coming of the white man. Speaking of steel, the peoples of the circumpolar north used found meteoric iron for making into steel articles. This goes back many hundreds if not thousands of years in the artic north. Meteors are considered the first source of steel going back about 4000 thousand years for other cultures, long before steel could be smelted from ore. Ok I'll go back to my room now.
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