Maxamet is ALIVE!

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Maxamet is ALIVE!

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I just wanna say thank you to Sal and the Golden Crew for giving the knife community the opportunity buy a folding knife in such an exotic and high performance steel like Maxamet, and to continue production even when facing challenges that NO OTHER company would ever face.

People don't really have a reference for how difficult the material is to work with as well as the raw cost per lbs for the steel.

Sal, Spyderco and the Golden Crew deserve the utmost respect and admiration for making this possible and continuing production with the Pm2 and para 3 in 2019.

I am very excited that Maxamet has not been "mothballed"

To have that much carbide volume at that high of a hardness on a folding knife from a production company is legendary and the performance has been unreal.

This is why Spyderco is very dear to me.

Thank you.

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Is 15V ALIVE?
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Philo Beddoe wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:09 pm
Is 15V ALIVE?
It never lived my man
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For sure!!!

Now where is that Military? :D
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bearfacedkiller wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:18 pm
For sure!!!

Now where is that Military? :D
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Glad to see it's still in production as well! Love my para 3, would love a Lil Native and a Shaman to match someday :D
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Deadboxhero wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:07 pm
I just wanna say thank you to Sal and the Golden Crew for giving the knife community the opportunity buy a folding knife in such an exotic and high performance steel like Maxamet, and to continue production even when facing challenges that NO OTHER company would ever face.

People don't really have a reference for how difficult the material is to work with as well as the raw cost per lbs for the steel.

Sal, Spyderco and the Golden Crew deserve the utmost respect and admiration for making this possible and continuing production with the Pm2 and para 3 in 2019.

I am very excited that Maxamet has not been "mothballed"

To have that much carbide volume at that high of a hardness on a folding knife from a production company is legendary and the performance has been unreal.

This is why Spyderco is very dear to me.

Thank you.

Shawn.


Amen!

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Try counting Spyderco's innovations some time.

Try making a list of firsts onto the market by a production knifemaker and see how long it becomes. Not just steels either. How many times Spyderco ignored conventional wisdom and did things no one else would or could. It's gotten to be too much writing for me. Even when they were beaten to the punch ( S110V for instance) the other company had troubles and instead of working through those problems by assigning the resources and time needed like Spyderco they stopped mid run and sold the ones they had that did pass QC and didn't go back ( will not post the name of the company for obvious reasons ).

Of course there is Cruwear. No one wanted anything to do with it industry wise until Spyderco made it available and showed how good it is and created a market for it and other similar steels. Prior to Spyderco releasing it I had tried talking a few makers and custom knifemakers into it and was told "no one would want it", and : it's too much trouble to work with". Now every release has a waiting list and it's directly due to Spyderco just like so many other things we have come to take for granted.

Yes, Thanks Spyderco! For a bunch of things.

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Thank you SAL!!!!!!!!

REX 121, 15V, and HAP72 would sell out!!
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Deadboxhero wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:07 pm
I just wanna say thank you to Sal and the Golden Crew for giving the knife community the opportunity buy a folding knife in such an exotic and high performance steel like Maxamet, and to continue production even when facing challenges that NO OTHER company would ever face.

People don't really have a reference for how difficult the material is to work with as well as the raw cost per lbs for the steel.

Sal, Spyderco and the Golden Crew deserve the utmost respect and admiration for making this possible and continuing production with the Pm2 and para 3 in 2019.

I am very excited that Maxamet has not been "mothballed"

To have that much carbide volume at that high of a hardness on a folding knife from a production company is legendary and the performance has been unreal.

This is why Spyderco is very dear to me.

Thank you.

Shawn.
I second this. Plus with proper technique and sharpening stones, Maxamet isn't that hard to sharpen for being as wear resistant as it is.
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I second all of the posts prior to mine. Too many things to be thankful for from Spyderco, which is easily the best manufacturer of knives globally.

But DO NOT sit on your laurels. There is always room for improvement. I don't buy only Spyderco knives but I have never been let down by anything produced by Spyderco. Keep on pushing the envelope.

I find the combination of iterative quality improvement and listening to the customer base that they have created would make an excellent study for collegiate level students at the bachelors, masters and PhD level.
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Maxamet PM2? I'm down.
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I figured it would come back
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Deadboxhero wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:13 pm
Philo Beddoe wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:09 pm
Is 15V ALIVE?
It never lived my man
Not yet but you did get Sals attention on page 3 of this thread.. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=82056&start=40
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Philo Beddoe wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:46 pm
Deadboxhero wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:13 pm
Philo Beddoe wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:09 pm
Is 15V ALIVE?
It never lived my man
Not yet but you did get Sals attention on page 3 of this thread.. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=82056&start=40
It still doesn't exist right now. Lets see what happens in a few years. For now, Maxamet is ALIVE, rejoice.
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Preach it, brother!
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Deadboxhero wrote:
Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:01 am
Philo Beddoe wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:46 pm
Deadboxhero wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:13 pm
Philo Beddoe wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 4:09 pm
Is 15V ALIVE?
It never lived my man
Not yet but you did get Sals attention on page 3 of this thread.. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=82056&start=40
It still doesn't exist right now. Lets see what happens in a few years. For now, Maxamet is ALIVE, rejoice.
One big reason we have Maxamet is because of this Feb 2014 thread that got Sals attention and a couple of years later we had Maxamet bladed knives...viewtopic.php?f=2&t=62976&p=922779&hili ... te#p922779

Always thought if we gave Spyderco enough time to figure out the problems they were having with it that Maxamet would make it back into production.

Myself I'm awaiting a Maxamet Millie.
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