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Mon Mar 31, 2025 1:46 pm

that reminds me, I was meaning to order a backup street beat lw from them. I just checked and they're back in stock now for a screamin good price. $84. Time to order one!

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After 48 days my knife from Dack arrived today. I am happy.

The coolness of holding CC #001 status is not transferable IMO. The etching is a detractor to me.

Is this thread about "direct metal laser sintering" or something else?

Wild! I have never used heat. I had a Jade M4 Military that was uniquely tough though. IIRC it was a thing with that drop.

Paper will work!

Wrap it with paper before grabbing it with pliers. Hold in place and then use the torx.

I have piano wire swaging pliers that are just right. I still use paper.

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Vivi is more talented than I am and can get better results than I do, but even I can get scrape shaving edges off of something as coarse as a 140 plate. Not hanging hair sharp, but it will remove hairs with light pressure on the skin. While going through a progression of finer stones can ...

shaving sharpness at 400 grit is simply indicative of good technique. something's up if that's not happening for someone.


I mean compellingly hanging hair sharp directly off of a 400 grit electroplated diamond stone. The consensus I see online is to meander through a bunch of stones and a few ...

Hi Tom,

Sharpening can be a can of worms. You are right in thinking that an obvious burr should not be the goal. The problem is that conventional sharpening (no de stressing or de burring) with a coarse stone is going to make a meaningful burr even with low pressure / alternating strokes. You are ...

I had a Tatanka that I got for $179.20 on 10/24/2014.

I got it to check out the lock design. I took it apart to admire the engineering. The quality was crazy high all around. It flicked open nicely. My State restricts blades over 4 inches so I moved that Tatanka along some years after getting it ...

That appearance is normal with a precise micro bevel.

You can do what is called "back sharpening." This means that you go back to sharpening at 17 degrees per side after putting on the 20 dps micro bevel. This will improve your sharpness (if you close in on eliminating the micro bevel slowly and ...

To me it looks like the lines were done with a sandblaster.

Pink is fine with me.

I have thought about this for a while. I am in favor!

I recently switched to the white rods because the brown rods don't offer an aggressive edge anyway.

Solid orange... 4v or some other steel I don't have.

I have the WE Pro Pack 2 but I use the Edge Pro 100x more often. The set up takes too long with the WE and it wont let me set a 10 DPS edge. Full flat ground knives sit on the edge pro better than they clamp into the WE.

Mineral oil will work to protect your knives but eezox, clp, weapons shield, tuf cloth, and pretty much anything else will work better and longer. Mineral oil is just okay for most pivots but not good for bearing pivot knives. Bearing pivots shouldn't be wet IMO. Just wipe the pivot area of the ...

The UF stones / rods are some the most used in my substantial assortment of abrasives. Touching up a ~zero ground delica on the UF at 10 dps makes it breathtakingly sharp - no way I would touch it with a strop.

I have the Shapton GS 16K and there are times when I like it but most of the time I ...

Brock O Lee wrote:Is the domed pivot no more?

Aesthetically the pivot pins are identical when the knife is assembled. Both pins are domed.