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Wouldn’t the peaks be at a lower angle than the scallops, since the are longer?

Good to see a few posts of yours come up. They are always interesting and informative and you have been an inspiration to many here and elsewhere.

Wow, this thread really grew. Thanks to all who are offering ideas. In no particular order, I typically do lightly slice/draw the edge into something like a 2x4 to peel off any invisible burr. Perhaps my mistake is going to the strop instead of the sharpmaker after that pass.

I also wish there was ...

The extent of the degradation depends. It will quit *cleanly* cutting thin catalog paper and sometimes get so bad I can feel a burr/roll on one side of the blade. Sometimes it is in just a couple spots. It also loses its sharp feel on a thumbnail. This is with a very modest amount of use. Like ...

Hello, I have struggled with edge retention/edge rolling with a pacific salt PE in LC200n. I have it sharpened using a Worksharp guided sharpening system (stones, not belt) at 30 degrees total (15 per side). Even if I put a micro bevel using a Sharpmaker and brown stones at 40 degrees it seems the ...

I lost an orange endura one time. Looked EVERYWHERE before I decided to order a pacific salt to replace it. I found it in the bottom of a large trash bin in my shop when I took out the trash bag liner. It was somehow in the can under the liner. I have no idea how it could have gotten there.

I wouldn’t worry about it but if you are, a retractable lanyard that is commonly used with fly fishing tools may be the ticket.

Depending on how clean the cut needs to be, I would try to score and snap them.

Hard to beat a pacific salt 2 ffg pe for an ultra-light do all knife. I usually also have a multi tool, which means I have more than one ‘knife’ on me when camping.

What I’m saying it…a knife that can’t be sharpened soon becomes useless.

If you are afraid to sharpen it you might as well throw it away. I like the ‘sharpen and use fearlessly’ idea best myself.

Big washers offer rigidity and better blade centering.
Smaller washers offer less friction.
Ball bearings don't seem appropriate in this application. Plain bearings are the way to go.


I agree with you on the plain bearings. The cutouts in the big washers on the Inkosi, am I correct in ...

Pacific salt PE, because it’s big, light, and easily sharpened in the field with a small rod if needed. Rustproof helps, but VG10 works in that regard. It’s more about the weight reduction of the salt without any liner weights and the TI clip.

I cut a McChicken in half today with a Pacific Salt PE if that counts….

Any knife disappears if you just drop it in your pocket…

It worked out well in the end for sure.

I lost an orange Endura somehow. I thought it was in my shop and I searched everywhere and couldn’t find it, so I wound up ordering a Pacific Salt as a replacement. A month or two later when I took the trash can liner out of a 45 gallon trash can in my shop the Endura was sitting in the bottom of ...

Why do more retailers not employ the strategy of ‘advertising’ at MAP but selling lower? In other words, a ‘click to add in cart to see final price’ kind of a thing?

I don’t think it would violate any legally written MAP policy and would be an avenue for the retailer to compete based on price. If ...

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Sat Nov 05, 2022 2:48 pm

That's a lot of mentioning.

Not my most eloquent post.

As mentioned Lance (surfingringo) has mentioned this and it jibes with my experience as well. To paraphrase Lance, he mentions that some ‘regular’ stainless blades will significantly dull without use just by being in/near a corrosive environment. Not so with LC and some of the other super stainless ...