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Thanks Sal!

It was an honor to meet you at Blade Show Atlanta last year and Eric was an amazing and gracious host during my last visit to Golden. I hope to have some exciting news to share this summer. Take care Sir.

I know it’s been mentioned before, but this seems like an appropriate place to say it again; Zapp does not melt or produce anything. They are just a distributor. Every grade you see with a Z is just a rebranded version of something else.

When you buy CPM 3V you know where it was melted and ...

With crucible now closed I wonder if Z-Wear will replace Cruwear.


“Z” in Z-Wear stands for Zapp. Zapp has no melting capabilities. Anytime you see a Z grade it was produced by someone else and rebranded. If you purchased Z-Wear, it might have been Cru-Wear but it also might have been from any ...

K294 is just a more expensive steel.

Remember the MT Maxamet from August 2016 for $109.95 and the MT CPM-S110V from February 2014 for $89.95.


Why is K294 more expensive? It's just a rip off of Crucible's CPM 10V. The R&D cost should be small; just read Crucible's patent from 1978. If I recall ...

Thanks for the assist and glad to be here. I had a micrometer laying around and I think we're at roughly .500" OD, .250" ID, and 0.010" thick. I ordered the minimum (5 sets) from usaknifemaker.com. We'll see...

Stuck with my 15V Shaman for tonight I guess.

This probably isn't the right place to ask this, but I haven't found the answer using the search function.

The Spyderco Military was my very first "real" knife and I've used and abused it. Then.... I took it apart for cleaning... Upon reassembly, I pinched one of the washers bad enough that the ...