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Another Micarta Shaman? What a gift!

CRUWEAR - Edging out my previous "all-rounder" CTS-XHP, Cruwear is imo the best blade steel on the market today. Edge retention/stability is phenomenal, ease of sharpening is unreal, and stainlessness is surprising given its relatively low chromium content. It's not the steel for someone who needs ...

Lil Native and Dragonfly are so small, they really don't NEED all these super steels. Always find it weird when tiny knives get that treatment. Its like adding a lift kit and big tires to an S10...doesn't make sense. Interesting perspective. I've always thought the opposite. The shorter the blade l...

Personally I don't see the appeal of a wharncliffe blade any bigger than the Delica, unless you're talking SD in which case there's the Yojimbo which is still relatively small. One of the reasons I haven't bought a Lil Native thus far is the blade shape - all that belly on such a short blade doesn't...

The Chokwe might just be my favorite knife in the whole collection. The lil' will be a day-one pickup for me.

I'm counting on ZDP at some point - I want to pick up an Endela but I have enough VG-10 in the collection. With as many steels as Spyderco offers it can be easy to overlook just how great and rare ZDP is - it's incredible stuff, and it's just not offered anywhere else!

steelcity16 wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:22 pm

HammerHill wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 30, 2019 12:57 pm

Boy, am I tempted! That blue is beautiful. Wouldn't say no to a Cruwear Endela sprint in the future, too.

Looks gray at knivesplus

I must admit I am a little colorblind. To my eye those ebay listing pictures appear much more color-balanced. Looks like a drab dark grey.

Boy, am I tempted! That blue is beautiful. Wouldn't say no to a Cruwear Endela sprint in the future, too.

I'd buy a mug, but if we're talking Spyderco shwag what I REALLY want is a hat!

I'm all in for a Centofante sprint or update, but not for a flat grind - the hollow grind is one of the Centofante's essential elements, imo.

Drunken has landed at gpknives!

Seeing as how I started this thread, I feel obliged to check in now that I've spent over a year with the Hundred Pacer. Dan at BladeReviews was kind enough to publish my pictures and full review, which you can read here if you'd like: https://bladereviews.com/spyderco-hundred-pacer-review/

I'm in for a Para 3 - an easy to carry, pugnacious little all-rounder. It's also become my personal "mule" for testing exotic steels; I've already got it in Cruwear, 4V, and Rex45.

Don't think so. Pretty sure it's the "mini" spoon clip as used on the Rhino. If so, I do believe the deep-carry benchmade clips fit perfectly. Impossible to know for sure until the knife is released, though!

Wow. It's times like these I can feel grateful I don't much care for the Manix 2-much-jimping...

There are so many Spyderco models and variants in FFG I think it's cool that the ol' hollow grinds resurface now and again

There using the "as quenched" values on the spec sheet at the top. Those aren't the tempered values. I'd expect to see 60-62rc from Spyderco https://i.imgur.com/4oWa8iq.png Thanks for the clarification - I was just repeating what I heard. It'd be nice to get HRC data from the horse's mouth, so to s...

Crux wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:24 pm

link?

It was live - you'll just have to take my word for it! I noticed Deadboxhero was also there, so he should be able to corroborate.

Interesting update: St. Nick's Knives quotes the HRC as being between 62.5 and 64 hrc, according to their livestream on Instagram just now.

My only experience with Elmax was on a Kershaw Leek "sprint," and I too found it comparatively easy to get sticky sharp vs high-vanadium stainless steels without a perceptible sacrifice in edge retention. Seems to prefer a polished, not toothy, edge. Have heard good things about its toughness in fix...

I don't recall many sprint runs coming in multiple production batches... I recall the Cru-Wear PM2 and Para 3 sprints coming in fitful batches as the total unit count for each run was manufactured. I'd bet each dealer got a half-dozen or so in the first shipment, and the rest of the run is probably...