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I also use an Apex and find it very useful. I use it for all my kitchen knives and it works real well. I picked up some Shapton Pros, that are cut for the blanks and they really work fast. I have seen some vendors are offering DMT's and Choseras. It can start to get a lil pricey. Here is such a ven...

Suprised to see such a detailed display of Edge Pro on a Spyderco forum. I think it shows good taste by Spyderco. Their main thing is knives of course. What benefit is storing the stones in water? If you do that do you need to keep wetting the stones over and over when using them. That's what I do. ...

Hi Jack, My straight razor has a ~10 degree inclusive edge. (I'd estimated the angle a good while ago on these forums but am too lazy to look it up.) Straight razor edges are very delicate, but this angle seems appropriate for cutting facial hair with very little force while gliding over skin on a ...

To Simple Man and Simple Man only:

If you aren't an "old" Lynyrd Skynyrd fan you need to change your name! Just kidding (almost).

Jack

Splice, I think a hollow grind would be nice too. I like FFG but after time and sharpening the blade will need to be "thinned" as the edge will be moving upward into the thicker part of the blade. Hollow grind is thinner, higher into the blade. I am talking about a significant amount of ti...

I have a Michael Walker with Carbon Fiber handle. It looks good (it even looks like silver in a certain angle of light) but for any condition other than dry, indoors I would like anything else. FRN and G10 is good. Others also for wet, nasty work. I think an endura w/CF would be great if it was to b...

I like the idea of an angle guide and have one on order. I have an Edge Pro sharpener and if you give me a knife and ask what angle the edge is I'll tell you what the Edge Pro says and I plan to compare that to what the guide says. I think it'll be interesting. But to use the Edge pro I need to touc...

I just looked at A.G. Russell's site and they have 8Cr13MoV at 58-59 Rc. I called Spyderco a month or two ago and asked what the rating actually is and was told if it was a Spyderco knife it was 58-59. If I remember correctly I ordered a Byrd Meadowlark a few years ago which was advertised as 440C o...

Owned a Byrd Wings knife several weeks now. Two blades, Serrated and plain, 3.5" ea. GREAT work knife. Won't break the bank if you break it but unless you are stupid with abuse you won't break it. If you need a work knife but don't want to subject your more expensive knives to being scratched a...

You can call me stupid if you haven't already. I would like to know for sure that when someone says they have sharpened their knife to 10 degrees inclusive they mean 5 degrees on each side. I am NOT a professional sharpener. I am adequate at best. I'm going to try to get a knife as low as I can even...

My vavorite is Cutlery Shoppe because they use USPS. When UPS delivers to my house and I'm not home they leave the box in the yard by the door. If I don't get it right away it could get rained on (in FL quick showers happen often). Also someone could be driving by and just pick it up. I do get a tra...

Deacon and others, The company I said uses USPS for small items is SOG. The list of items are only sold by SOG and not on the sites you would normally buy a knife on. Since their shipping has to be included in the price they quote there is no shipping confusion. Also, they just like Spyderco, quotes...

I just voted yes. I've been wanting a neck knife for a while and since Spyderco didn't have anything interesting at the moment I bought one from another company. It' a nice little fixed blade that's very easy to get to. There is one thing that prevents me from using this knife as a neck knife. When ...

To Spyderco, You will have a calendar coming out soon which I will probably want. There was a big hoopla over the shipping for the angle guide and your solution was completely perfect. Do you normally ship via USPS of was that unusual? Here's the thing: If a small item costs $8 and shipping is $8 th...

chuck_roxas45 wrote:I'd like to see that too. :)

Ankerson wrote:A lot of it depends on the steel and the HT really.

Some steels like ZDP, M4 and D2 can be taken down very low and still hold an edge and not chip or roll.

For most steels I wouldn't go below 30.

I assume you mean 30 degrees inclusive?

Jack

Are all the bevels angles mentioned here inclusive? Evil D said: I'm betting yes. Any time you see ZDP used in a sentence around here, the numbers are usually inclusive. Jackknifeh says: Any time I refer to an edge I say 15 "per side" or 15 "inclusive" because I don't know what ...

I like thin blades and low angles as much as anybody. The lowest angle I have on a knife now is 15 degrees per side so says my Edge Pro sharpener. It is my Stretch with ZDP blade. I put a very small 18 degree primary edge on it also for added edge durability. The primary edge is so small you can't s...

I'm sorry to say I haven't thought about Rush for years. I still remember the late 70s like it were yesterday, well I remember most of it. They were a mainstay of the culture with Uriah Heep, Skynyrd, many others. Never saw them though and I don't know why. I lived 50 miles from two concert location...

My open Stretch was on top of a piece of paper on the table. I wanted the paper. I pulled it out from under the knife, the knife fell and stabbed my bare foot. Didn't know that much blood was in a foot!

That was the first thing I cut today.

Sincerely bleeding,
Jack

I don't know which one is stronger if it were put to some kind of test. There is no question that the lock on any folding knife is as important as anything else about the knife. From what I've seen Cold Steel claims they have the strongest lock with the Tri-ad lock and also demonstrate it on DVDs th...