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I fully intended to buy this one, but I was busy doing something at work and forgot to buy it. It stinks that I missed it, but the White FRCP/Satin Rex45 Manix 2 LW GPKnives exclusive dropping soon will make up for it. I have some of the other 4V exclusives of SNK's, and they're great, but I almost...

more 20x loupe photos. this is a used knife I bought on the secondary market. the previous owner really needs to learn the sharpie trick ;) https://i.postimg.cc/0Q99nx43/20231214-091743.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/FRGNn85K/20231214-091753.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/q7VJt2xp/20231214-091829.jpg I'll post...

more 20x loupe photos. this is a used knife I bought on the secondary market. the previous owner really needs to learn the sharpie trick ;) https://i.postimg.cc/0Q99nx43/20231214-091743.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/FRGNn85K/20231214-091753.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/q7VJt2xp/20231214-091829.jpg I'll post...

I kinda built this Manix 2 for a hunting knife option to use in the field gutting and dressing game, especially deer. Well I finally got to use it when gutting a doe this morning. The blade zipped through the flesh with ease, but when it came time to cut thru the sternum we had a problem. I could h...

It's virtually the same chemistry, I mean just barely/slightly different. Why would anyone expect it to behave different in a meaningful way? I personally can't see any reason to hoard H1 over H2, in most people's use I'd expect zero measurable benefits.

I kinda built this Manix 2 for a hunting knife option to use in the field gutting and dressing game, especially deer. Well I finally got to use it when gutting a doe this morning. The blade zipped through the flesh with ease, but when it came time to cut thru the sternum we had a problem. I could h...

I just told myself no more knives for a while but my grail knife is The Knife Joker forest green Shaman. I simply can't refuse a P3LW in this color/steel combo or really any knife for that matter. You're not kidding, I told myself the same thing and damned if I don't need this one. I love the scale...

Are you volunteering to send me some money to purchase a high end USB micro-scope to prove to all the skeptics on the internet that I have been quite successful doing very significant re-profiling and sharpening work for many folks by now that have been nothing but overjoyed at the results and go s...

The same two guys always talking so much about steels and sharpening, degrading others, their equipment, the steels, others abilities....a lot of talk, yet have never ONCE posted photos of how great at sharpening they are. Time to put up or shut up fella's. You certainly know who you are at this po...

My only reference is KnifeSteelNerds. Listed as ingot and no reference to PM. Given it is used in the budget folders it seems likely. Correct, BD1 and BD1 are ingot steels. They are not PM steels. Good deal, thanks for confirming this. I'm recalling now that it was CTS XHP I was thinking of being P...

It's expected that BD1N would cost more than 4V because it is stainless, which usually costs more than non-stainless. 4V is not but if you compare it to the stainless 'version' of 4V (Magnacut being modeled as a "stainless" version of 4V) then Magnacut is indeed more expensive. I would ha...

I paid about $156 for a g10 15v manix a year ago... $135 for a lw in overrated 4v? Lol nope. You know that even the BD1N Manix 2 LW costs more in the US with a coated blade? I think Manixes have pretty good prices anyway in general, but this 4V one is an amazing deal imo. And I admit I am not a ste...

... You know that even the BD1N Manix 2 LW costs more in the US with a coated blade? I think Manixes have pretty good prices anyway in general, but this 4V one is an amazing deal imo. And I admit I am not a steel expert, but Spydercos 4V in my Goddard is anything else but "overrated" as f...

.... I paid about $156 for a g10 15v manix a year ago... $135 for a lw in overrated 4v? Lol nope. You know that even the BD1N Manix 2 LW costs more in the US with a coated blade? I think Manixes have pretty good prices anyway in general, but this 4V one is an amazing deal imo. And I admit I am not ...

Is the finish DLC on this one? The Goddard was not, can anybody tell me what the type of coating was on the Goddard 4V SNK?

Well, in this case, one could certainly argue that S110V had 'comparatively awful edge-retention'. I keep saying this but I'll repeat myself yet again.... carbide volume + large number of vanadium carbides DO NOT directly equate to edge retention. I really hope we as a collective can start to separ...

I don't plan on sending the knife in for maintenance. I can put a new bevel on it myself. It was my doing and honestly I should have known better, but I had never really experienced working with S110V and didn't know how "chippy" it was. now I know and will be changing knives for this pur...

Am I going to run into the same problem with S90V and chipping? I have a Shaman in S30V and am really wondering if that's the way to go here. Yes on s90v....and s30v is hardly any "tougher" than S110V or S90V. The whole reason why s35vn happened is because people in the beginning deemed s...

Am I going to run into the same problem with S90V and chipping? I have a Shaman in S30V and am really wondering if that's the way to go here. Yes on s90v....and s30v is hardly any "tougher" than S110V or S90V. The whole reason why s35vn happened is because people in the beginning deemed s...

I'll have to try that out. I use barkeepers friend too, and while it works well it isn't the most convenient process. It's not ideal either from perspective that BKF has an abrasive in it. You don't want to use anything abrasive to clean the stone as it will possibly dull the abrasives of the stone...