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Onion has since moved on to design knives for Columbia River Knife and Tool, and most recently a knife sharpener with Work Sharp. Onion holds 36 design patents on different items including locks, mechanisms, and knife designs. [6] [7] Most notable of these is the Speed-safe mechanism used by Kershaw Knives.
Knife sharpening is the process of making a knife or similar tool sharp by grinding against a hard, rough surface, typically a stone, [1] or a flexible surface with hard particles, such as sandpaper. Additionally, a leather razor strop , or strop, is often used to straighten and polish an edge.
Columbia River Knife & Tool, Inc. (CRKT) is an American knife company established in 1994, and currently based in Tualatin, Oregon, United States. The company's president and sales executive is Rod Bremer and the finance executive is Peggy Bremer.
Sharpening tools. Very sharp knives sharpen at about 10 d.p.s (degrees per side) (which implies that the knife's edge has an included angle of 20-degrees). Generally speaking, razors, paring knives, and fillet knives should be the sharpest knives at an angle of 12° – 18°.
The blade steels were D2 tool steel at the cutting edge, and a spine of 154CM stainless steel. [10] In 2009 Kershaw won an award for the Speedform (model 3500). [11] In 2010, Kershaw won "American Made Knife of the Year" for the Tilt (model 4001) and Shun won "Kitchen Knife of the Year" for the Shun Premier line. [11]
As a high-speed tool steel, it is capable of keeping a tempered edge at high temperatures generated in various machining processes. However, it is not used as widely in factory production knives, as CPM M4 has become more popular. Custom knife makers still use it for knives intended for fine cutting with very thin edges. [7] M4
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