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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 blad...

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 like ...

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.

Donut wrote:That looks pretty nice.

Were there any sprints produced after September?

These pins are from regular production mils. I believe the last sprint was late 2013.

Left pivot pin is from 1/2014 marked military. 9/2014 on right. Cool.

I was looking at incorrect composition numbers earlier on the CTS B70. Carpenter says: Carpenter® CTS® B70P Alloy Nominal Analysis 1.10 C, 0.40 Mn, 0.025 Max. Ph, 0.01 Max. S, 0.30 Si, 14.00 Cr, 2.00 Mo, 0.25 Nb, 1.00 V, Bal. Fe ® A powder metallurgy derivative of Carpenter’s CRB-7 alloy offering e...

I really like polished edges on near zero ground knives.

Well I look forward to seeing the push cut edge retention results with 3Cr13 finished on the sigma 120.

Yea, push cutting manilla rope with 3cr13 should be a brief test. I would have a good laugh if I saw someone push cutting manilla rope while not doing a specific push cut test. Maybe I would ask them why they were trying to mash their edge with rope instead of with a rock.

I think that is an excellent point because it isn't obvious that these same stones would produce the same results on very different steels. So true. 3Cr13 seems to require such a coarse edge to have decent edge retention on manilla rope. I don't think aebl at 60rc would be so fickle. Its interestin...

Great work Cliff. I would like to see this test with aebl and s30v.

I am eager to try out some Vanax. Its another interesting nitrogen steel.

It's a pocket knife. From a purely practical standpoint, how tight do tolerances have to be? I'm not using it to plot a course from "point A" to some tiny island 5000 miles away. I'm not trying to hit a dime size target at 100 yards or score 300 on the National Match Course with it. I'm not expecti...

Im here to agree with you. I would love to see a tighter tolerance Spyderco. I rarely carry anything other than a reground Spyderco but I do own a Sebenza 21 and 25 just because I appreciate how the tolerances compliment the overall design. Usually on my Spyderco knives I can lube and adjust the piv...

Manix 2 XL with orange scales.