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Yojimbo or stretch 2.

I think of social media as a digital diary. A legacy I can leave to my daughter when I'm gone. A blueprint on how to indulge in a hobby, and to help pay it forward to newcomers. Some are strictly interested in just the results nothing more. It's my hope everyone I've impacted with my hobby created a...

Screenshot_20240506_115548_Gallery.jpg This week I'm testing an obvious clone of the buck 110 in 8cr13mov. I saw this at my local hardware store for 20 dollars. I haven't listed any spyderco 8cr testing results in this thread, so it should be a fun comparison. Build quality is very poor on the clon...

400 grit cbn stone used for 3 minutes on my HIC mule. I expected it to exaggerate damage from the ice whacks but it didn't. It could be the damage was so small it just avoided it all together.

Screenshot_20240501_074847_Gallery.jpg I normally just buy my mule scales from the younger bro of a knifemaker friend. I am not sure if Elijah has gravitated towards full time knifemaker or not. I think the term metal maestro sounds better than knifemaker personally. These contoured scales feel rea...

Screenshot_20240430_171130_Gallery.jpg The HIC mule wasn't able to pass day 2. After day 1 it was fine, but after day 2 it failed. It was still technically sharper at this point than when I received it. 2 days out of the benchmark 7 is a lot more brittle than I'd like to see. I'm deciding if it's t...

I have my own criticisms of why this was made too. I wasn't wearing my excited pants when the ball started rolling either. I'm moving thru these shenanigans of mine to really see what this stuff can do. So far I haven't thought of a practical use for it yet. However I have seen edge retention improv...

I usually grab my urban lightweight over my dragonfly or lil native. If i had 2 pick 1 from the 2 listed options id go native.

I haven't seen the video. I'm doing my own impact testing this week tho. I get bothered when content creators don't burrow thru a few edges first before batoning or whatever they decide to do. Batoning thru a brick to me is poor judgment period. I started with 220 and ended up with 630 in my own cut...

156 cuts followed by 78 chops on ice, then another 81 cuts to get 315 out of 390. Roughly an 81% efficiency rating. I have to mention that this knife was gifted to me by kurt for testing purposes.

Screenshot_20240428_154844_Gallery.jpg Latest cut test numbers pull it ahead of maxamet by 110. I plan on testing this guy along with zdp 189 tomorrow on the ice. Instead of 60% aka 40-20 ratio, I'm thinking of just extending it 7 days to reach 60% on this ceramic. 36 cuts and 18 ice chops per day....

Screenshot_20240427_130824_Gallery.jpg I have my technique dialed in for putting an edge on this material. The latest cut test reached 400 which nearly doubled the last one. The stone I used was the spyderco cbn benchstone- 800 side only. In a perfect world it only takes 5 minutes, but I will retes...

Factory edge was quite dull so I tuned it up. Ended up with 220 on my sanding roll with my HIC mule.

Normally I use a 1k super vit for testing. However I know very few ppl have that stone so I will be switching up to the spyderco cbn benchstone and recording the times. I'm still deciding on specifics so I have the ability and agility to adjust accordingly. On my sanding roll I got 220 cuts today. I...

Right now I'm trying to identify a sharpness standard for testing that compares to my other stuff. The paper towel demo is just to showcase I have a good method to create a sharp edge which only took 2 minutes. I have more verification runs to do in order to make sure I have a solid foundation first.

I'd like to retest my technique a second time just so I can articulate better if it's a valid approach or not Real testing always begins on the fourth edge anyways.

I tested my buck and my griptilian today. The blunting pattern of the griptilian mirrored the same pattern from the sage. The data numbers are different, however I'm able to identify a trend between the 2. The sage s30v did out cut benchmades s30v. 40% of 250 is 100, and 20% of 250 is 50. My griptil...

Screenshot_20240425_084827_Gallery.jpg I forgot I had this sage rockwell tested. The average number for the pokes was 60.2. Therefore with the other s30v knives we can estimate based on the testing results what their hardness values are. Atleast to a closer degree. Id personally prefer s45vn on the...