Nirvanero collection

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Orange family updated.

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Des Horn, a sweet little knife.

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Gentleman knife with character...

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Excellent knife...

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Here with other nice sandwich blades.

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Manix power...

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Spring latch everywhere...

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Chinese claws!

[MOOZADELL]

What type of blade steel is used for them? I'm new to Spyderco knives. I noticed the knives say Taiwan, some say China; I just bought a Endura that says Japan. Can you get any knife with any blade steel type?

[Donut]

What type of blade steel is used for them? I'm new to Spyderco knives. I noticed the knives say Taiwan, some say China; I just bought a Endura that says Japan. Can you get any knife with any blade steel type?

No, you can't. Each plant has steels that they use. A long time ago many of the plants seemed to be using AUS-8 or AUS-6. In the 90's, Golden and Japan were using ATS-34 and ATS-55. Current day, Japan uses VG-10, ZDP-189, H1, and rarely Super Blue or Cobalt Special. USA normally uses CPM S30V and CTS-BD1, but it tests a lot of new steels. Italy normally uses N690Co and Elmax. Taichung, Taiwan normally uses CPM S30V, CPM M4, 440C, and is about to start using CTS-XHP and CTS-204P.

There are a lot of steels that are specific to a model or are done for a while and end up changing. Like 154cm in Golden on the Manix 2, but that has been announced to be changed to CPM S30V. (I haven't seen any CPM S30V pictures yet, but the change is going to happen.)

[nirvanero]

What type of blade steel is used for them? I'm new to Spyderco knives. I noticed the knives say Taiwan, some say China; I just bought a Endura that says Japan. Can you get any knife with any blade steel type?

Donut explained it really good. Tenacious for example uses 8Cr13MoV from China and I guess some of us would love to see it with S30V or CPM M4. I'll upload som Tenacious pics someday, it's a great low cost knife (yesterday, my EDC).

[Donut]

Donut explained it really good. Tenacious for example uses 8Cr13MoV from China and I guess some of us would love to see it with S30V or CPM M4. I'll upload som Tenacious pics someday, it's a great low cost knife (yesterday, my EDC).

Did you see where Sal mentioned there is a Carpenter plant in China and they are working on finding out what types of steel the China plant is able to work with? It sounds like a lot of hope for the Tenacious line.

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Did you see where Sal mentioned there is a Carpenter plant in China and they are working on finding out what types of steel the China plant is able to work with? It sounds like a lot of hope for the Tenacious line.

That sounds nice, I wish the green Tenacious had came out in CTS-XHP!

[Holland]

amazing collection sir

[1623]

Excellent knife...

Did you buff the scales down or is this simply a well loved Caly?

And I really need to find a Ti Lum...love that knife.

[nirvanero]

amazing collection sir

Thank you Holland.

Did you buff the scales down or is this simply a well loved Caly?

And I really need to find a Ti Lum...love that knife.

It looks that way because the CF is matt finish at some angles (as other knives from Seki) and this is also a Caly I've been carrying, even if it doesn't show too much wear I guess it wasn't the cleanest in my gallery at that time... I'm sure this model will still look nice when scratched to the bone before you decide to buff the scales down.

Lums are very unique gents knives, hope you find this smartly dressed!

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I saw the light!

[Donut]

That's a very nice photo. How long did it take you to set it up?

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That's a very nice photo. How long did it take you to set it up?

Thank you Donut. Not using tripod, actually it didn't take more than a few minutes. First I tried some natural light and then I thought about using a little white led lamp to make it "glow". Then it was just a matter of chosing the effect of light trough the hole in the blade:

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