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I do a little bit of cooking. Whenever I try a new recipe, I expect the first (or even second) trial to be not so good, but a necessary learning step to figure out how to make what I really want. As I gain experience I am able to produce something good much more often on the first trial -- but you g...

Well, that was smooth and easy. Almost anticlimactic with no crazy drama. Nice work from Spyderco. Thanks.

This steel has me right away thinking about 52100, which is one of my favorite steels of all time. And I read that some people call AEB-L "stainless 52100". So I am totally OK with it not having fantastic edge retention if it has some of the properties I admire in 52100. I have especially ...

It works for me. It is fine. It has never bothered me.

Thanks to TTfultimer for the tip on the $14 sheath, I tracked down what looks like the item in question and will give it a try.

Spyderco has always been reticent about publishing heat treat numbers. I don't know why, and don't really care. They have their reasons I am sure. Perhaps they don't want to be in the position of advertising a specific HRC and having people test and complain later. Which would be reasonable in my op...

ykspydiefan wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:34 am

No one likes waiting, except the Brits, I've heard they cue up really well.

I am told the Germans are very good also.
However the Japanese top all of them.

The Americans though ... we are becoming a country of entitled "Karens".

For variety.

It is really hard to find a bad steel these days. There is nothing wrong with Magnacut, but I don't see it as the only game in town. For example I just picked up the Manix sprint in s15V and I am delighted to have it. I expect other interesting things to come down the road.

Honestly, you can't go wrong, except in buying a LW -- always go for the G10 version. The XL is really a totally different knife. I adore the Manix, but the XL is definitely not for me. That aside, there is nothing at all wrong with S30V, and I am glad to see plenty of people boosting it in the repl...

Interesting that Rex45 and Rex76 are close neighbors on that chart. Two of my absolute favorite steels.
I used to cry every night that there was no Rex-45 mule, but the Rex-76 mule took all the tears away.

This has been my daily "small knife in the kitchen" since the day I got it and I love it. Very happy with the factory edge and given daily use it has held up well. I may have touched it up once using the Goldenstone and it is probably due for that again.

Can someone explain to me, why the Manix is seen as a strong, heavy use knife? Bolster isn't the first one to mention that. I, personally, never have seen the Manix as the heavy knife, that fights you through the jungle. I mean, the blade is kind a short, if you want to use it as a chopper or as a ...

I think there are more off topic posts complaining about off topic posts than any other kind of off topic post. Although it is off topic, I just want to express my frustration with all this off topic discussion. If I don't feel better after doing so, I'll be back with more off topic discussion until...

WilliamMunny wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:16 pm

Tucson Tom wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 04, 2023 5:37 pm

Does anyone know what the HRC is on the Spyderco sprint?

65.0 +/-0.1, per Shaun on a production knife.

That it pretty amazing if that is what I have here in my hand. Thank you for the info.

I have been spending idle time the past week or so reading through all the posts in this thread and others related to this 15V steel and knife and sharpening, etc. I am wondering, and I well could have missed it. Does anyone know what the HRC is on the Spyderco sprint? I saw some of the numbers BBB ...

Whatever the case, it would be fantastic to see a 15V Mule.

Try buying a Damascus blade using PayPal for that matter, you might find your account frozen. Found that one out the hard way. That's interesting. I just bought a Manix 2 sprint on Ebay, and I am sure I just paid using Paypal like I do for every Ebay purchase without thinking twice (or even once) a...

I sit here wondering just what the DPS is for the original grind on a typical knife like the Manix 2 I have sitting right here. I was telling myself I needed some fancy gear to measure it, but I can get pretty close with just my dial calipers and some trigonometry. I take a ruler and find where the ...

Thank you! Somehow I had thought that I had this all wrong, but I really didn't. So I'll restate what I think I just learned from you guys so far, especially the explanation by gunmike1. If I have a knife from the factory with a BTE that I don't like and want to reduce, I have two options. 1) I can ...

I've done some searches and by and large have gotten more confused than educated. Here is what I think I understand. You can tell me where I have gone off the rails and please do so and/or add to this. I think that it would benefit me as well as others. Let's take a full flat grind blade, like most ...