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My personal grails are the black micarta Calypso and the burgundy micarta Jess Horn II.

This may be cheating, as I think it was produced from 1994-1996, but I can't help myself. My dream is a revival of the original C25 Frank Centofante with titanium scales, a tip-down [sorry, meant tip-up] clip (wire clip would be fine), a variety of inlay materials (polished micarta or G10 would be c...

I love the REC “colorway” (somehow the first time I heard that term was in reference to REC’s Spyderco exclusives) but it would be nice if they went with a tougher steel than CTS 204P. Can’t have everything though. This is purely academic from my perspective since I tend to steer well clear of hyped...

Mine is pretty basic. It’s a Gerstner-style chest (not a real Gerstner, sadly):

Here's my LC200N UKPK which I Rit dyed red (next to an S30V one with micarta scales):

Custom maker Walter Wells built me something that comes close to what you’re describing. The blade is .044” full flat ground M2 steel at around 64 Rc: https://vimeo.com/312123079 It cuts through cardboard (and everything else) like soft butter. It is my great desire to see many, many more knives in ...

I'm an Endura addict, and have it in every steel except AUS-6 (don't need that one!). My favorites:

1. VG-10 wharncliffe
2. V-Toku 2
3. Super Gold

elena86 wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 17, 2022 12:57 pm

Is that the factory edge ? Did you measure the thickness bte ?

That’s a new edge, actually. I don’t have the tools to measure thickness unfortunately (I should get some calipers!).

It's been a few months now and I'm just as impressed with it as I was the day I first got it. The incredibly light weight relative to the size continues to astonish, the lockup is rock solid, and the blade just glides through everything with incredible ease! https://i.imgur.com/8eUITQ0.jpg https://i...

yablanowitz wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:53 pm

Unless I missed something (entirely possible), Crucible only made one batch as an experiment, and Sal bought it to use in surprise Sprint Runs of the Military and Paramilitary.

The Kershaw Dividend (composite blade version) also had CPM D-2 in it, but perhaps it came from that same batch.

Correct. S30V has better edge retention than MagnaCut. However, Magnacut is ~3x tougher than S30V with a much more stable edge... Which means you can take MagnaCut much thinner than S30V while keeping a fairly durable edge. Blade geometry wins over a steel's edge retention 100% of the time. Exactly...

I generally value light weight over “good action.” And there’s no real world use case in which the added strength (which is likely marginal anyways) of liners would make a difference to me. The Manix 2 LW, Native Chief and Stretch 2 XL are so good (in my opinion) partly because of how light they are...

The Shaman is a bit too heavy for me, but I'm always happy to see more micarta, especially burlap. I could definitely go for a burlap micarta Native, though.

I’d be very, very interested in a super thin knife in a very tough and hard tool steel. By “thin” I mean thin blade stock, thin behind the edge and a very acute edge angle. It is incontrovertible that thin blades cut better and longer than thick ones. And to keep a thin edge “stable” it needs to be ...

To mean, the wharncliffe Delica 4 is nearly the perfect knife. The only minor things I would change would be as follows: 1. Get rid of the tip-down clip holes. (If I had my druthers they'd get rid of the left-hand tip-down clip holes but that would be too cruel to the lefties.) 2. Change the pocket ...

Take a look at Larrin Thomas’s articles on “edge stability.” The way I see it, the thinner the edge, the better it cuts, and the two main factors in keeping a thin edge from failing are toughness (prevents chipping) and hardness (prevents rolling).

Rules: 1. It has to be based on an existing model, current or historical. Anything from the C01 Worker onwards. 2. You can designate the materials, including blade steels and handle materials/inlays. 3. You can designate the grind type and serrations (if any). 4. You can choose the clip type and pos...

I think this is one of the few knives that I would literally buy sight unseen.

While we're dreaming, I'd like a Micarta and Magnacut plain-edged Matriarch please! (Could be abbreviated as MMM-PE.)

I use the same method Nick Shabazz uses in the video linked by Wartstein. Getting the hole in the lockbar lined up with the holes in the scales is the only tricky part. Sometimes what I’ve done is to put the lockbar pin in just part of the way, then, using two thumbs to push down/align the lockbar, ...