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VooDooChild wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:18 pm

Man no love for the native chief I guess.

I voted Para 3 LW, but this is a good idea too.

I'd buy literally any model in Super Blue.

Yea, those are my 4 favorite steels, lol. I chose k390 for it's balance, but favoring wear resistance. I'd take rex45 with a thinner edge geometry. A new model in Maxamet would still be very exciting though. Edit: I changed my vote to Maxamet. I felt like an ingrate lol. It really is amazing that Sp...

Para 3 LW or UKPK in k390 or 4v? Ivory scales? A light beige? White? A pastel/pale green blue or yellow?

Keep up the good work fellas

Native Chief in 4v would be a must buy

Caly definitely on my radar. Lightweight or sprint, which ever drops first. The current zdp caly 3.5 almost got me to bite, but I'm not a fan of flat(as in not contoured), shiny carbon fiber, or the laminated blade.

Thanks for another great article Larrin, I enjoyed it very much.

Brouwer, so good I might buy a second one for back up.

Linen or canvas micarta would make buy. As far as steel, I'd like to see something other than vg10. I don't know if this is realistic or even possible, but HAP5R from Hitachi looks pretty amazing. Similar to Cruwear or 3v.

Put a second edge on my Cruwear Native 5. Started with a 600 grit cbn stone to remove leftover scratches from initial reprofilie, and avoid creating any new ones with a coarser diamond stone. Went to a 1k metallic bonded diamond stone, followed with 1k SiC stone to maintain the finish, then my 800/1...

I think the edge geometry is much more important than heat treatment if we are comparing S30V/1095 knives for chopping or prying tasks. If it’s 15 dps both 1095 and S30V would fail. 1095 can get some more toughness it’s taken down to lower hardness. But using a lower carbon steel would increase the...

Albatross pretty much nailed it. 1095 is tougher than s30v, meaning it can endure greater lateral stress before it will experience catastrophic failure, aka snapping into pieces. It will bend further than s30v without breaking However, in the context of knives, people often confuse toughness with st...

List of steels I'd buy:

S110V
4V
O1
A2
3V
BD1N LW
15V
B75
B70P
CPM154
S45VN

There are more, that's just off the top of my head. That isn't a list of my favorite steels, just steels I don't have atm, or need a new model in. All would be a go for me though.

Maxamet. I hadn't used my Maxamet Native 5 for a while. I was forced to cut some tape with it, and it was covered in tape residue, so I set it aside until I felt like cleaning it. I finally got around to cleaning it up, I felt the edge with the pad of my thumb, and I was amazed how sharp and aggress...

Yea, every time I've tried to refinish a ceramic I've ended up liking it less than before. With ceramics, it's such a fine line between behaving like a coarse file, a medium grit stone, and doing absolutely nothing. Most of my ceramic lapping experimentation was done trying to make other ceramics pe...

My Brouwer has become my go to, most carried knife. Unless I have a specific reason to carry something else, the Brouwer is what's in my pocket. I agree with a poster above, easily Spyderco's most underrated knife.

Brouwer

I like a good kephart, but to me it's one of those knives best served by keeping it as close to the original as possible. Not a lot of room for innovation. I suppose a steel upgrade would still be something to consider. I don't know, I guess I would be interested to see it, yea.