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I would absolutely love a 52100 chief. The 52100 millie is one of my all time favorites and that combo, 52100 with grippy carbon fiber, would be amazing

That would be amazing…the resilience is my favorite model among the Chinese liner locks and M4 is one of my favorite tool steels. The resilience is highly under-appreciated (probably because of its size). It has this bullet proof, “beat me up” kind of attitude…and that click when you open it, holy m...

Either would be great. It’s all about how much tip you want, really…

The native chief has a super-pronounced tip…good for piercing if you do a lot of that as part of bait prep. The salt stretch kind of speaks for itself. It’s one of the greatest 4” knives ever conceived but in salt form.

Can’t wait for the Rex 121 Sage. Dreading the day a cruwear Sage 5 lw is released…which will render every other 3” in my collection inferior in a definitive way Has there been any indication on a release date? Rex 121, as Sal said… and unless I’ve missed something major in the last week or two, the...

Can’t wait for the Rex 121 Sage.

Dreading the day a cruwear Sage 5 lw is released…which will render every other 3” in my collection inferior in a definitive way

I’m tip up for everything but the Millie family. I’ve tried tip down for the endura, stretch and a few others but it just never felt right. So nearly everything is tip up. But then for PM2s and my military models, tip up doesn’t feel right. I think it’s because I got used to tip down with the cruwea...

Had my Crucarta GB2 in my pocket during the total eclipse…perfect knife for such an occasion

A chappy in k390 or cruwear would be an absolute laser beam.

That’s not to say that the xhp variants aren’t. I love mine…but man oh man. That blade stock with a steel that comes up effortlessly aggressive and hangs onto its front end sharpness. That would be unreal.

There’s probably a generational component to consider when answering this question The models that are the most widespread are probably the Delica, PM2 and Tenacious. So from there it depends on whom you ask. Anyone who’s either younger or more into flicky locks…THE Spyderco to them will probably be...

RugerNurse wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:34 am

I ordered a UK Penknife for my small fishing adventures. The LC200N version. Small and lightweight should be great

LC200N is a big part of why I like the Caribbean so much…it does reallt well in wet environments (obviously) and it’s easy to maintain.

Resurrecting this thread again instead of starting a new one. It’s that time of year again and the longer I have the Caribbean as my main fishing knife, the more I start to wonder if there’s any better general purpose, on the water, fishing/boating knife on the market. In the last year mine has cut ...

Bill1170 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:35 pm

Think Zildjian cymbals

To this day, I’ve yet to find a better “all around” ride than the 20” k custom…regardless of genre, it just WORKS.

I’ve used and sharpened both of these pretty extensively K390 is a clear winner in the sharpening department. Things like reprofiling take a minute but after that, it’s all good. I’ve never had a major issue getting a screaming sharp edge S110V is similarly difficult to reprofile…but it also takes a...

I recognize this… This is almost certainly from abrasive particles working their way onto a jig or angle guide. This happened to me early on when I was using an angle guide to examine the factory bevel on a DLC shaman. It bothered me so I did two things…stopped using an angle guide with diamond ston...

Same as basically every model I have in such a scheme…crucarta…it just always feels “right”.

I do love the k390 variant, though…that’s the tool steel variant to go for if you don’t wanna wait around for a year until another cruwear individual pops up on the flea for double the original price…

Bolster wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:57 am

So they're building insurance into the price...which benefits careless people, and penalizes the prudent, it seems to me. "Safety-nettism."

We can call putting lateral forces on the apex "user error", but there's some cutting tasks that are very hard to complete without such motions Definitely…and I’ve had one or two incidents over the years with some of my crazier, more brittle steels. But hey, that’s what I signed up for 🤷‍♂️

Would Spyderco provide any assistance to me if it breaks or gets damaged when I use it within the realms of where I would an expect knife with a more conventional steel to perform perfectly fine? TBH, I would keep it as more of a collector piece if that were a concern. I want Spyderco to be releasi...

S110V is actually a really practical steel for certain use cases (it’s my personal favorite high vanadium stainless). Its best use is as a highly, highly stainless EDC slicer. It’ll definitely get a little brittle on you if you encounter hard objects…that’s more the realm of tool steels. But if you’...

When the stretch 2xl finally comes out in k390... i may have to go this route too. i've been wanting to try k390 and figured the leafjumper would be the one, but then i didn't have to adhere to smaller blade restrictions like i thought i would, so a 4" blade sounds really great. i also like th...