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I just got my M4, planning on carrying it today. Love the skeletonized liners and everything else about it. Seriously wondering (worried) if this'll replace my black Manix 2 as an EDC.

Can't do anything that's non-reflective like CF/G10 on the 50-1000x setup, since the light has to reflect from the metal and back through the lens to get a picture.

However, the mirror polish vs bead blast should definitely be doable! When I get a hold of each of them I'll get pictures.

I think that your photos are great. I have been messing with a cheap Veho at.. supposedly 400X and getting the lighting and angles correct is a real pain. What you have here is orders of magnitude better than anything that I have achieved. Great stuff. That PDF was recomended to me a while back and...

Try this: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/downloads/pdf/knifeshexps.pdf Very cool reading, and I definitely agree with them that optical microscopy is really limited by depth of field. I've tried to alleviate that (and I think it's actually done a decent job for being a computer-generated process) by us...

I would be interested to see you flick close it one handed, I was starting to doubt that it was possible, it seems that even with the ball fully retracted it still makes contact with the tang, not allowing it to swing, I can flick close all my p'kals but they are cbb. I find it easier to close two ...

Agreed. I took my first look and gagged a little, but the longer I stared at it the better it got. So ordered one up when I could finally find it in stock and it's in my pocket right now. Love it!

Next up is the factory edge MT13 Elmax Mule. Same routine as before, I can take pictures of the knife in about ten minutes now that I've got my technique down :) 10x http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Clipkid243/Mule%20MT13%20Elmax/1-10x-2.jpg 25x http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Clipkid24...

Factory edge M4 Manix 2, FFG Also pictures of the tip at 63x and requested pictures of the bug engraving at 40x, 50x and 100x 63x http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Clipkid243/Manix%202%20-%20CPM%20M4/5-63x-1.jpg 40x - tried to get it at an angle but the texture is so fine it tried to disappear ...

Here's the next! You don't know how hard it was for me to not cut anything until I got the pictures :) Factory edge M4 Manix 2, FFG. 10x http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Clipkid243/Manix%202%20-%20CPM%20M4/1-10x-1.jpg 25x http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/Clipkid243/Manix%202%20-%20CPM%20...

Just dig in on the lock with your thumb and press above the hole with your index finger. Still leaves three fingers on the knife. Wonder if I work it enough it'll become free-swinging like my Manix.

Nice pics. I got mine yesterday afternoon, first Dodo I've had. Looking forward to the next sprint as well!

You'll have to look at microstructures to know for sure. This involves mounting and polishing samples as close or closer than the .3 micron level, then etching the surface with an acid solution containing nitric, hydrochloric or picric acid. After that, take a look at it on a microscope and you'll b...

i find it difficult to close. is that just me and fat finger syndrome? Fresh out of the box mine was pretty tough. I thought about cutting down the G10 a little more but didn't want to do anything drastic so instead I cut my fingernails. That helped. Last night I put a few drops of Tuf-Glide on the...

Look up stropman.com(great strops). The pics are great, I never thought that's what a knife edge would look like,it's really cool... I have a question about loupes, what is the best ones to get,and how much do they go for?? Thanks I'm sure people more knowledgeable will chime in but I think people ...

Speaking of, does anyone have a good link on how to get started stropping?

As promised, here are pictures of a factory fresh orange S30V Dodo. Looks like the blade is sharpened at a steeper angle on the bug side compared to the origin side. I'll try and get pictures of the slightly different grind tomorrow. The 10-63x pictures were on the origin side, what I guess is close...

The metallograph is built for a 90° angle so you can put mounted samples on the stage and look at them. Since the light comes up through the lens, reflects, and goes back down this works the best. However, I've been throwing the knives up any way I can get them to cooperate with the combination of s...

So if there a prob like an off center blade or a scuff then I should ship my brand new knife to Spyderco and wait a few weeks to get it back when the whole time the dealer could have just taken 2 minutes to do a quick inspection to make sure everything was in proper order before shipping it to me ?...

Received the M4 Manix2 and the S30V Dodo today. Threw the Dodo onto the table and got factory edge pictures at 10, 25, 40 and 63x. I should be able to get the higher-mag ones as well this evening. Don't know if I'll be able to do the Elmax and M4 today but there's going to be something new in this t...

enduraguy wrote:Company confidence in the long term durability of their product? Maybe one day in the future, a Spyderco from Golden will end up on another planet. It could happen.

"I'd rather have something from China over that 'Made in X14.5D2' crap we usually get around here."