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Personally would prefer a thinner blade Endela rather than a larger Chaparral but would be strongly tempted by either.

I didn't care for the rest of the aesthetics of the Schempp Bowie but the 3.75" blade at 2.5mm stock thickness had me considering it repeatedly.

Spyderwebs wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:18 pm

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Considering food is a large % of what is cut, another culinary-focused offering with a different lock and scales would be attractive

Wasn't the Kapara also designed with food prep in mind? Comp lock and CF scales there

...My perception was that the Caly handle was just a little narrower, especially with the shallow radius choil right behind the edge, and it just didn't lock in as well as a Delica does to me.... It is curious that we'd have "mirror image" fitment issues; sounds like a Delica fits you lik...

p_atrick wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:32 pm

We need more photos.

I just want to be clear: love the delica, I bought one because I knew I really liked the design and it’s an excellent performer in its own right. Today I decided to take another close comparison to the in hand feel of my stainless steel combo edge delica, to my calypso jr lw, and g10 caly3. The del...

GB2, started off the day as a paring knife loading up the slow cooker before work.

Lmao. The last time I posted in this thread, August 18, I had picked up a Sage 5 CF and a Chap CF and called it done. I've since added a wharnie K390 Delica and Endela and a medium grit benchstone. Liking the Endela so much I'm wondering if I need anymore K390 wharncliffes before they start getting ...

Flash wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:04 pm

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Let’s face it, the Delica is outdated and flawed.

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Hold on now, that's quite the jump from "the wharncliffe Delica edges should be straighter/need better QC"

For OP, to give a couple other Spyderco wharncliffe examples to compare - These are a S30V Delica, K390 Delica, K390 Endela. Photos taken with my phone, trying to keep things level and square with the internal phone level but probably still subject to fisheye and focal length issues vs the human eye...

Voted Knifejoy 20CV/blue. I also like: Knifeworks 204P/Green (though they've also done lots of other materials in theirs) DLT 20CV or M390/Red or Red/Black BentoBoxShop M390 or 204P/Blue (though like others they've also had some variety) In general I like Spyderco's standard VG-10 and S30V but I do ...

... I never found out why other folks have such corrosion issues with their folders, but I don´t. Part of it mght be the "degree of corrosivenes of someones sweat", and mine will score low here. ... For what it's worth I've rusted both 14C28N (over a season as a running knife) and VG10 (o...

This year I mostly bought discontinued models on sale after the 2023 list came out: K390 Delica wharncliffe K390 Endela wharncliffe Chaparral CF Sage 5 CF 20CV Endura (KJ exclusive) K390 Delica (ordered 12/30, delivered 1/4...does that count as 2023?) Overall the Sage 5 and the Endela wharncliffe ha...

Rock Jumper is also on sale and has a quarter of an inch more cutting edge than the Delica. $58 in some places. That along with the Endela Wharncliffe going for about the same. VG-10 in PE or SE that is. One issue (for me) with the RJ/Endela wharn vs the Delica wharn is that the RJ/Endela are thick...

Ares

On the topic of Crucible steels in Seki models, I'd also like to see some SPY27 in a Delica/Endura.

My mind's in the same place; just ordered a K390 Delica from National to get a little bit more of that steel in hand before prices jump. Almost added some SPY27 as well but trying to save some hobby money for the Bodacious. (the Benchmade price jump is also concerning; the last time we were in an ou...

Xmas Air: https://forum.spyderco.com/download/file.php?id=56607&mode=view Truly a Fresh Aire Christmas! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l-IFrI5TuF65Kb2KzCyqe4WpVtehupyO0&feature=shared For me, I'm traveling a long way from home to be with family so had to pick one to stick with fo...

I'll second the LynchNW clip if you're willing to pay a little more.

Are we getting ahead of ourselves?

I was looking forward to the airing of grievances and feats of strength before moving on to the Christmas celebrations.

You can always re-sand at a lower grit than factory, but I'm uncertain how much grippier that will make it. Scouring pad seems like a good idea. I've done this to a BRK with polished canvas micarta scales before. Used something pretty low grit; I want to say 120. It basically exposed the ends of th...