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I would like to see a higher carbon clad for folder blades. Something a little more scratch resistant than 420J...Take Care...Ed Like the ATS34/ZDP 189 laminate that is used on a certain high end maker of knives, and can be ordered in bar form from Japan? The way the ZDP is sold effects the choices...

we're waiting on steel. Sal, can you please make this a large enough sprint run for the huge explosion of people that will be wanting to try the steel. I believe it is going to make the delica zdp frenzy look tame in comparison. To be honest, I want to buy at least 5 myself if I can get them. Every...

Navigator 2 with BG42 blade, and a "R2" sized & shaped blade in M4 with SS/ lockback frame ( beefed up a bit especially in the lock). Joe

Notice that seller had a Spyderco "flight" listed as made in the US also. She gave the steel description and put a picture up of a Byrd. I think they don't know much about what they have. The calypso didn't appear to have a lamination line, which you can see in the Jess horns picture. Does...

Padawan, chances you'd get another one that has uneven lines. I'm of the mind that it hasn't affected the use of my knives in any way whatsoever now that I've had plenty of time to try them out. In fact I've bought several more knowing they'd be uneven. It is one of the sharpest out of the box knive...

Leave it pretty much the same except1) beef up lock & tolerances and 2) save BG42 for designs like navigator and the AUS 10A replacement Native. The Paramilitary should have M4 steel. The potential of this design is probably the greatest of all current spydercos. ZDP 189 wouldn't be the answer h...

S125V is a beast of a stainless steel. I'd love to try it too but something tells me we'll see something in S90V first, along with the collaberations with Mr. Schemp in 3V. Right now S125 is the steel of only a handfull of custom makers. IIRC, Cliff Stamp has a small custom paring knife in it he tal...

When did Benchmade do this? I havent much experience with carbide. What locking mechanism would you use? Traditional lock back? It was back when they came out with the specwar model cqc7. They made some all titanium models. They had to use something non magnetic for the cutting edge, and their ti a...

A two bladed knife with one standard or spyder edged blade and one blade coated with Diamond or Tungston carbide chips. Essentially a saw blade that could cut through darn near anything even glass, some metals etc. Copperhead style rather than swiss army knife style. No huge saw type blade. I bought...

Ceya, that's an interesting, good looking design. It almost reminded me of AIRCAT with the grind lines and non traditional North American hunter lines. The lines looked good, finish good too. What brought about your decision to use this type steel instead of the more predictable variants. Don't get ...

DC53 for fixed and ATS 34 for folder. Im coming out with a DC53 folder. That's a souped up D2 type steel right? Let us know how the folder works out. Do you have any experience with that steel, heat treating it, grinding, and polishing it? It sounds like there would be easier steels to work with fo...

Gollum, S30V is an upgrade in certain ways but the 440V is still plenty good and useable. The biggest complaint is that it's hard to sharpen and reprofile as it has so much vanadium in it. If it wasn't good steel to begin with Sal would never would have used it. Use it and enjoy it, or keep it as a ...

Folder-zdp 189 tied with BG42 Too close to pick
Fixed- 52100

runners up M2 and Blue "super" steel, can use in either fixed or folder.

Sal and Spyderco has changed not only the state of the art in knifes. but the whole industry landscape. I've always admired the knives I'd carried but the more I learned, the more I thought it would be a resource to lurk here and get information about everything from sharpening different steels to f...

A G-2 Endura FRN ( still has intact moulded clip) which was my first spyderco back in 80's or early 90's, I really can't remember. I carried it for at least 7 or 8 years, and bought more during that time incase I broke or lost it. I never did and still take it out to carry every now and then. Second...

Mein Gott, Red BMW just described what happened to me some time ago. I don't even go to the forums that used to bring me into the real world with meaningless political discussions and arguments. No more Red states, blue states, social democrats or conservatives. Just other knife knuts and steel junk...

Some of you have heard about and even purchased the ti framelock/zdp knife just released by a competing company. Being A titanium framelock with ZDP I had to pre order one out of a total sprint run of 950. The first 350 were released about a week ago. After the first couple of days the complaints st...

The line up is doing pretty well. The ones that came out last year, the sprint runs, plus the ones just coming out keep the lineup progressing. Things are good and getting better. They've done a lot of work and it has paid off for us :) . I certainly hope to see Sals continued exploration of the new...

I love the BG42 Millie and have more confidence in it than the S30 version. Don't ask why as it's not a logical reason, just feelings. I like BG42 a great deal and likely always will. Only zdp steel and some non stainless HSS's like M2 really impress me that much as a "one blade for all purpose...

7 - Natives( 440V and S30V, AUS10A)
? - Delicas
? - Enduras
? - Jess Horns
3 - Military ( 440V, S30V, BG42)
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