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A properly profiled CPM-M4 knife and the Sharpmaker are a match made in heaven. I have a few knives with M4(including the Gayle Bradley and Air). I am fairly hard on my EDC knives and my M4 knives have proven to be the easiest to maintain on the Sharpmaker. I have never had to reprofile M4. That may...

Timing is everything. I have been looking at 6 inch utility kitchen knives for a couple of weeks now, and I have a Shun DM0701 in my Amazon wish list I was about to pull the trigger on. I think I will instead get one of the plain edged black handled Spydercos and the blue handled serrated one. Yep.

I received a South Fork yesterday. Wow, this is a horse of a little knife. I didn't wake up in time this morning to skin a buffalo, so I cut up some tomatoes and onions and peppers with it and made some omelets. I will probably use it in the kitchen for a while to get used to using it and sharpening...

Both of my Caly 3.5s have a some side to side wiggle. I think that is the trade off to having such a large, light, thin knife with a deep carry clip. I have bent the clip a couple of times. I removed it and straightened it out. The nature of the beast. It takes the same size torx on both sides of th...

chuck_roxas45 wrote:K390 millie on 2015 will be fine for me. :D

Me too, I'm patient.

I already own a Gayle Bradley and air. I will probably get a South Fork in the next month or two. I have been on the edge of buying a Southard for awhile now, but I don't think the steel upgrade will push me over that edge. I have also been on the edge of buying a Sage 2 for a while. I think a steel...

I'd be in for a Military. I would also like it with carbon fiber scales.

One more observation on this subject. Although the stain is getting harder to see with use, it was still visible. I decided to take a picture to post in this thread. I used Windex to clean gunk and fingerprints from the blade, to prepare it for pictures, and the stain is now 100 percent gone. When t...

Thanks Sal, I had forgotten about it until I saw this thread. I took another look and like I said, it is now barely visible. I doubt my camera skills could even show it. Now that I think on it more, maybe they put the tip of the blade in some sort of rubber clamp to put the knife together and it lef...

I received a Caly 3.5 VG-10 a couple of weeks ago. It has the exact same stain. It is like someone dipped about an inch of the tip in some kind of tarnish remover. I immediately installed the VG-10 blade into a carbon fiber handle and have been edcing it since. The stain is barely visible now. Not s...

Hmm, I am one of those that bought the blue Military from BBS about a month ago despite the discouragement from many on the forums due to the lack of a discount. No regrets here, but this blem deal seems a bit odd. I wonder if sales are slow and BBS is trying to get rid of a few under the guise of s...

ATM, I am trending towards the choil. I have about ten knives in my knife drawer, organized from most used to the least used and the two I use the most are the Spyderco Military and the Caly 3.5. I like the feeling of having control of the blade independent of the handle. I bet I have looked at my P...

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Thanks Carboni, I am now in the Cruwear Military club. Can't wait until Friday.

I ordered mine from Knives Plus on Saturday and was waiting for a ship notice Monday. Instead, here is an excerpt from an email I received. " Greetings!The item you ordered is discontinued and sold out.We will not be able to get any more of these in stock.We will cancel this order.Sorry for any...

As far as sharpening is concerned , different steel require different types of stones to get the best edge for the steel. FOr example Edge Pro stones are going to work fairly well on wider variety of steels but when you get to sharpen something like ZDP-189 you need to get different stones to get t...

Welcome to the forums. The Cruwear should be tougher so lower angles or harder use should be a great way to take advantage of the steel when compared to S90V Hmm, CPM Cruwear might be better suited for what I do than S90V. I am in the service/maintance field and use a knife for all sorts of things ...

Thanks salmonkiller, all I needed was a little push. I just ordered one from Knives Plus. Hopefully the bevels will be around 15 degrees each side and I can micro bevel it on my Sharpmaker. I am not sure I want to tackle a reprofile at the moment. I recieved the blue S90V version a couple of weeks a...

Hey all, new member here with a couple of questions. How does this Cruwear compare to S30V? Is it still too early to tell? I would think it would be an upgrade since the CPM Cruwear Military is a limited production model. I am trying to decide if I should chase the Cruwear Military or order the stan...