Miracle Blade III

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RCDGRZ1

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I just saw a demonstration of the Miracle Blade III at the county fair. The salesman filed the head of a hammer with it. Showed some shavings and said that if it had come from the knife- he's in trouble. But since the knife easily sliced a tomato, the implication was that the shavings came from the hammer. Isn't a hammer much harder than a knife, especially the $20 "surgical stainless steel" knife?
 
RCDGRZ1 said:
Isn't a hammer much harder than a knife, especially the $20 "surgical stainless steel" knife?
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No, it is much softer. I sharpen the claws and resurface the faces all the time for friends, they file really easily. Some are harder than others, I doubt he was cutting up a Hart.

-Cliff
 
So you believe the knife actually filed a channel into the hammer? Would you recommend this knife to someone who doesnt have the motivation or skill to keep a plain edge sharp?
 
Yes you can do that easily. One of the benefits of serrated edges is that you can maul the tips of them and they can still cut because the scallops will be protected.

-Cliff
 
They kind of tear up the food, not slice it, but they are pretty effective. I wouldn't want to try to cut up a lot of food with them, since you are basically sawing, but for a few things here and there, so what. Toss 'em in the dishwasher, bang the heck out of them, who cares.

My sister, who doesn't know how, or care how, to sharpen a knife uses an old Ginsu and they work a lot better than her butter knife dull henckels.
 
I saw a demonstration like that in a store once. I'm familiar with stage magic so I know what to look for.... Near the end of the demonstration he set the knife down out of sight for a moment so he could use both hands for something else, then picked it up again (a different one, of course). He pulled out a hammer with some grooves sawed in the head already. He sawed at one of the grooves with the half of the edge toward the point and then sliced the tomato with the other half of the edge. I was the only one who laughed out loud....

I think the misdirection wouldn't be necessary if you only wanted to do the trick once. You could saw at a hammer head a few strokes, enough to make a visible groove, and still slice a tomato, quite legitimately -- once. But you wouldn't be able to keep doing that demonstration every day with the same knife and never sharpen or replace it.
 
I've got a 9 year old Ginzu knife that still works incredibly well. I had to buy a new one last year because the original one fell thru the dishwasher rack and the handle melted on the heating element. Blade still works great though!
 
I saw one of these demonstrations at Walmart several years ago. The guys did cut a groove in the hammer, with only push strokes. He then sliced a tomato with only pull strokes, all with deep serrations.

Half of the serration was still pretty sharp.
 
I'd say Miracle Blade it's a set of knives pretty handy in the kitchen. Just don't ask for a miracle (pun intended) ;) Usually you get what you pay for. Considering the advertisments costs, I'd say in this case you get less than what you pay for. :(
 
Cougar Allen said:
He sawed at one of the grooves with the half of the edge toward the point and then sliced the tomato with the other half of the edge.
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I watched for this on tv, however he makes a point about doing the cutting with the front,middle and tip of the blade when he does the paper cut. You can actually do this many times with a serrated blade because you only effect the tips not the scallops, it isn't of course restricted to the Miracle Blade knives, any similar serration pattern will act similar. The drywall demo is actually more impressive as that will get up into the scallops.

-Cliff
 
sodak said:
I saw one of these demonstrations at Walmart several years ago. The guys did cut a groove in the hammer, with only push strokes. He then sliced a tomato with only pull strokes, all with deep serrations.

Half of the serration was still pretty sharp.
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Me too! I could barely keep from laughing. Only $20 for $4 worth of knives!

One trick is to keep talking when you do those pitches. He actually spent a lot of time getting shavings off of the hammer, but he was yapping the whole time so it went by faster.

Another trick is to move fast. Slicing that tomato with a crappy knife requires more sawing motion than usual. But people are probably focused on wether the tomato cuts well, not the motion of the knife. Plus, the guy is moving all fast and crazy the whole time, so the fast sawing to cut the tomato nice and thin doesn't seem so weird.

Good catch on the push vs. pull strokes. That's a clever strategy. I am also fairly sure he focused on the front of the blade for cutting the hammer (it slipped off a few times) and the rear for starting on the tomato.
 
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