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It is high carbon steel, it can't be made stainless or it will become different steel all together.

If you are going exclusively with Spyderco, then the Bushcraft. You may want to bring a hatchet or small forest axe with you as well if you are making shelter or plan on processing a lot of wood.
If you want only knives, you probably will have to get a big chopper, and a smaller knife. In this case ...

I free hand all my knives

K390, s110v, 3v

Strong-Dog wrote:I'm greedy by asking a question? They're already out of stock anyways I'm curious as to how it works.

Experiment man, see what happens.

What did you cut with it?

PM2, Military or Manix 2 would be my choice for a K390 sprint

There will always be some flex in the system and thus never be able to truly achieve a V bevel geometry.
The less the downward pressure while sharpening the closer to perfect V the geometry will be.
Another variable is the dishing of the stones used to sharpen. All synthetics dish, the lower grits a ...

I hear so much about nano oil in the knife world but I just cant get over their marketing. Im sure the product works well but all the benefits they claim to be from their diamonds sounds an awful lot like what Royal Purple calls "synerlec technology" or what weapons shield calls "advanced boundary ...

For pivot mainly Finish Line Extrem Fluoro (same as CRK grease) and much cheaper.
On my razors I use Ballistol fro long term storage and it works awesome.
Just got Frog Lube last week, not sure how well it will work, it seems a bit thin for pivot applications, but I may be wrong.

Comparing grits between different type materials seems to be a bit difficult. Especially with ceramic which Spyderco doesn't even apply a grit or micron rating. Med., fine, UF are the designations they use. So a while back I used DMT, Shapton glass and Spyderco stones and compared the scratch ...

Got mine in today, awesome knife.

mikerestivo wrote:......and the first Manix XL S90V is on E-bay. It does not appear to be a collector's club number.

That was some quick flipping. Breakneck speed.

can you imagine it sells fro less than what KW charges, that'd be hilarious.

Mine comes in today :)

Just got email from Howes, getting a few Manix 2 XL in S90V, $233 a pop. Also a few Native in CPM XHP.
I thought those were dealer specials?

really? never thought about that as a potential problem. I've been buying tons of stuff off ebay forever, never run into that with anything. How can I tell if they are fake, any pointers? The person I bought from had 100% feedback with over 85 transactions, all different stuff. Would someone really ...

you can get them direct from Spyderco, I was on the phone with them yesterday. but they charge full MSRP ($210 or something) OUCH.
I just got one off ebay for $150, there seems to be lots there (black blade) for around $145 to $150

Too many fakes floating to risk it. Some vendors are online knife ...

JNewell, I guess I never noticed that they were bi-directionally textured. It seems to not be very angled.


From what I've seen on several forums, there is a time limit for how long you can change the title of a thread you create. Most of the time it is set to a few days. I think I tried to do it ...

On my I'll never own list:
The **** ugly, childish looking, dumb I LOVE SPYDERMAN fanboy looking type - Mike Draper folder. But what an ugly handle design! Almost no ergo and cheap looking graphics!



If the Sebenza can have almost no scale ergo so can this one. I agree the graphics design is ...

xceptnl wrote:Can you go back and do an advanced edit on your first post and change the title?

Not possible, I am yet to see any forum software that allows a user to change title. Only a moderator/admin can edit titles AFAIK.

The Draper blade shape is cool, not really digging the hanlde.
The Tatanka is doolworthy as well.