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I always bend my clips out a little, so I hope that will suffice. I won't be sanding, using epoxy or buying a clip for my new knife though. Bending out would not be a solution for all.. I always go the other way: Remove the clip, bend it IN and attach it again so that the tension actually gets stro...

.... Last hunting season I actually carried a 1. gen Stretch PE, which is a really nice knife. Unfortunately it wasn’t my best season, so I only got to process a couple of hares and birds with it. It shares much DNA with the S2XL, but the size suits me better. The only downside compared to the nati...

..... Think serrated steak knife. It will go through flesh very easily and quickly... ...The teeth tended to poke into the hide while scraping (again, this was not a Spyderco) ... ....When it came to cutting the actual meat, there was nothing better. I can´t weigh in here as a hunter cause I ain´t ...

JD said full SE … .. I know, that is what he is advocating for... but he literally says (quote) " There has been some recent talk of a possible Catcherman Sprint Run which I'm personally excited about. But I most of all miss the fully serrated version of the Catcherman..." - so the 1.) &q...

JD Spydo wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:42 am

...There has been some recent talk of a possible Catcherman Sprint Run which I'm personally excited about. ...

You do know that this is not just "talk of a possible Catcherman Sprint Run" anymore but you can actually buy that knife (ffg comboedge) right now?!

Palestrina : I´d recommend getting coarse sharpmaker rods anyway, aside from reprofiling - which works of course, but might take a little time. For just that, as said, my CBNs could even be a bit coarser. What I really like in my CBNs is the coarse edge they can create - worth trying out, see this ...

I agree, they do probably take steel off faster. If my goal though was to reprofile kitchen knives my first choice would not be CBN/Diamond rods on the Sharpmaker. I think a fixed system or freehand would be the way to go. Again just IMO no expert either. I think so too. For truly reprofiling PE I ...

Here is a post by Sal on this topic, actually a whole thread concerning your question:

viewtopic.php?p=1219379#p1219379

CBN or Diamond is not more aggressive than the brown stone included. They are made to cut harder steels like 15V or Manix that the normal brown and white rods can’t effectively sharpen. ... Not an expert, but I am not sure I understand - ? Perhaps the term "aggressive" can be interpreted ...

Mushroom wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:34 am

Yes, they are the same thing. Front Lock is just another name for the Mid-Back lock or Mid Lock.

Thanks, Nick!

Is the Sage similar in size to the Delica? And is the LW version the one to get? Yes, in the length-dimension it pretty much is. You can compare specs yourself by opening "technical specs" for a certain knife on the Spyderco site: Here https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details/C11F/456 the...

A Back Lock versus a mid Back Lock is where you press to disengage the lock. A back lock like in the Buck 110 you have to press at the very bottom which is very inconvenient for one-handed closing. The mid back lock like in Spyderco folders has the disengagement in the middle which makes it easy to...

You really haven´t ?! And I thought Vivi and I would actually start to get annoying, cause we´ve shared our clips on that quite a bit already OK, maybe I have, and forgot. I'm pretty sure I watched your vids. It's a neat trick and I'll have to try it. It is actually not just a "trick" in ...

Pokey wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:17 pm

Sage 5?

I´d go for that over the Para 3, but he wants a Salt...

I don't use lanyard holes on folders, but I don't mind their presence. I also don't require that a folder be deep carry, and in fact I prefer to have a bit of handle sticking out to make extraction easier. ... and put the finger closer to the opening hole when one draws the knife (carried in tip up...

I'm wondering how many people use a lanyard on a pocket knife. To me, it's a useless ugly hole that in many cases interferes with the position of the pocket clip so the knife cannot be deep carried. A lanyard is useful on a fixed blade for retention when chopping and hacking; on a folder a lanyard ...

.... .. Never seen an inertia close with a backlock before! You really haven´t ?! And I thought Vivi and I would actually start to get annoying, cause we´ve shared our clips on that quite a bit already Here is an old one I made once (closing shown one time slow, two times fast) https://streamable.c...

Glass is cheap. Glass is flat enough. Glass wears slowly enough. I have an old cast iron surface plate. It's not super-precise, but I'd prefer to keep abrasives away from it nevertheless. Granite is another great material for surface plates. But they're expensive, and we don't need that level of pr...

Uneducated question (I have almost no experience with wetstones): Why do you all appearantly use specifically a glass plate to stick sandpaper or whatever abrasive to? Why not any other hard plate? (Like some metal)? Is it because glass has the least tendency to bend or something like this? (A thick...

I love my Delica but miss the fidget factor of the compression lock PM2? Is there a Spyderco in the D4 size with a compression lock? Or at least similar fun factor to a PM? Thanks! PS and if it came in a Salt version, I’d be smitten! Don´t know about "fun and fidget factor" generally and ...