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National Knives for $165, log in for price.

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I added a ceramic detent ball and opened up the detent hole a little on my existing Sage 5. Now the action rivals my Sage 5 LW. Actually, I think it's even better than my S5LW. It totally transformed the Sage 5 for me. I've done the same to my Kapara, Sliverax, and Mantra Thanks for the suggestion,...

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For me it is its compression lock. Not only I prefer other locks or even no lock to a compression lock, but IME Taichung compression locks are simply unusable, ie pressing the tab combined with a wrist action won't close the blade. This was the case with the Sage which after failing to break it in ...

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Scandi Grind wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:09 pm
Also, does anyone have a suggestion for where to get silicone carbide grit for cheap?

I've bought from this company before, they are the cheapest I've found:
https://hplapidary.com/collections/ungraded-grit
https://hplapidary.com/collections/graded-grit

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National Knives - Military DLC C36GPBK for $189 (47.5% off MSRP), log in for price

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It may have seemed this MAP holiday had less selection than previous ones, but for me I think it was the best one yet. I managed to pick these three up for an average of 51% off MSRP. I’m especially liking the Stretch XL, being a big fan of the Stretch and Pacific Salt. https://i.imgur.com/3o1qiht.j...

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WilliamMunny wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:58 pm
Just got my Pacific Salt 2 SE from BHQ. Very happy I jumped on it, that is a ton of awesome knife for $40.

The deepest discount of the sale I think at 69% off MSRP. Did it end up being H1 or H2 steel?

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JRinFL wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:29 am
Did you have reward points or did they bump the price up? It was $125 +tax for me just now with coupon.

No, I just added the coupon and it took 10% off. It seems to still work for me

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Lumpy620 wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:04 am
You can use LST10OFF23, it's working now

Thank you, Manix 2 Salt for $117.45 plus tax. Didn't think anyone was going to get me.

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BHQ has the Pac Salt 2 yellow (H1 or H2?) serrated for $49.99... I'm all set on Pac Salts but still tempting

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What is meant by RA surface exactly? I recall hearing Sal state at some point that the fine/ultra-fine is the exact same stone but one gets surface finished to a fine surface. Ra is one of a number of metrics to quantify surface roughness, as defined in ISO 21920. Essentially it is the average of t...

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Buddafucco wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:13 am
https://www.bladehq.com/item--Spyderco- ... ve--195384

Interesting that the black blade C101PJGRBK2 appears to be screwed construction whereas IIRC the satin blade C101PJGR2 was pinned.

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Injection molding isn’t an additive manufacturing process and is even more out of reach to amateur makers than forging or stock removal. Injection molding is absolutely additive and it’s not that out of reach. Some of older TheCrafsman videos on YouTube show some pretty low end production of molds....

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Injection molding isn’t an additive manufacturing process and is even more out of reach to amateur makers than forging or stock removal.

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weeping minora wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 04, 2024 2:38 pm
(Dack) in fact do carry on-hand inventory.

I stand corrected, they actually do have a storefront. And I found a photo on Google of their Spyderco inventory

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Dack doesn’t have inventory, they’re a drop shipper.

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What did you think about the images? The images are excellent as usual from Science of Sharp. Always particularly interesting to me is the sectioning of the edge by focused ion beam, and more recently the elemental analysis by EDS. This photo set and its subject steel might be the most captivating ...

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“Dr Todd”

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Todd-Simpson-3

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Any chance that it's a C11SFG?

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December 2023 Byte wrote: while [Magnacut] is not as tough as H-2, its toughness is impressive and outshines that of LC200N

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