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Here's what the fashion industry thinks:

https://www.polagoclothing.com/blogs/news/trending-colors-in-fashion-what-to-wear-this-season?srsltid=AfmBOoriVKJxyr5ZzwVDiEVSidVk8vVXcL2-J0PE6hkEuetLnDU2R-DI

https://www.polagoclothing.com/blogs/news/trending-colors-in-fashion-what-to-wear-this-season ...

113 is one of our collector's club numbers and the 'V' is for variant. We originally had six collector number when the club started, but were persuaded to give up two. Our numbers are 60, 72, 112, and 113. We received four of every knife that Spyderco makes.

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To the best of my knowledge, Takefu has an agreement (many years ago) with Japanese cutlery makers not to ship VG-10 to China. That does not stop China steel foundries and Chinese makers from using Chinese made counterfeit VG-10 (or just lying entirely about the steel). This practice has been going ...

Perhaps a competent gunsmith or machine shop would be able to repair.

Ever think to contact and return to the "reputable seller"? Perhaps they should have inspected it prior to sending it to you. You could ask the dealer for a return label as they apparently never looked at the knife. Just picked, packed, and shipped.

Here is the patent:
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/48/f9/c2/9bfbc612444580/US5685079.pdf

The patent was sold to Benchmade in the early 2000s. They renamed it the InDraft system. As I recall they only used it in two Mel Pardue design knives, the Ambush and Mini Ambush. They were made in ...

Here is a photo from Spyderco Source:
https://spydercosource.com/2010/10/spyderco-challif-kosher-butching-knife-k10/

Obviously, some of the information needs to be corrected, but at least we can see what it looked like. I remember selling them, but not to Kosher rabbis.

I did make six challifs ...

Wasn't MRS-30 the steel Al Mar used in 1979 in his inaugural line and that he called RS-30? Isn't (wasn't) MRS-30 made exclusively for Masahiro by Daido like MBS-26? I just sharpened a vintage RS-30 Al Mar for a customer last week ... great steel! To the best of my knowledge, Al Mar was the second ...

Hi Mike:

Thank you for filling in the gaps of Masters of Defence's history and for your integrity for this legacy brand and all you do.

Best,

brian

To the best of my knowledge, these are the only two that have been produced:

https://spyderco.com/products/spyderco-wooden-knife-kit

https://spyderco.com/products/spyderco- ... 3124028460

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As a matter of history, Bob Lum created an entirely new cutlery genre and blade pattern. He took certain design elements of Japanese long swords (katana and wakizashi, principally their unique chisel-like point (kissaki) and put them on a fighting knife. He then curved the blade upwards to give it ...

As I recall, Jeff Loffer of Cutlery Shoppe was the one who ordered the full SpyderEdge Titanium version.

https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=18660

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/c07ti-police-model-titanium.515973/

https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=356

https://www.spydiewiki ...

https://knifesteelnerds.com/2019/12/02/ ... explained/

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Always reminded me of the foil wrapper that Wrigley's used for their chewing gum.

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I remember a line called Rugged that was made in Japan in the late 1980s for the Remington (Shavers) Cutlery store chain that had "ATS-36" steel on the blade tang! Just advertizing foolery. https://www.ebay.com/itm/177179318457

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FYI, based upon my research and written up in the January 2025's Spyder byte, "In 1981, Pete Gerber of Gerber knives commissioned legendary knife designer Blackie Collins to create the LST (Light, Smooth, Tough). Based on Gerber’s best-selling Folding Sportsman I design, the LST was first produced ...

Many cutlery manufacturers under hardened their steels as a matter of economy more so than ignorance. I have been told that if one lowers the hardness by a point or two from the optimum, grinding wheel wear (and other abrasives and tooling) is dramatically reduced which decreases the cost (increases ...

Here's my current favorite from Jarlink that I use when sharpening straight razors:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/JARLINK/p ... BF4272D1EF


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FYI: Robert Skibitsk now works as the CTS Metallugist-North America at Erasteel Inc.

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