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Ahmad is awesome, can't drink Earl Gray but English #1 is great- available on amazon. I've never had anyone accuse me of having "tea breath." I think most Americans have never had a proper cup of tea. Tea bags with strings are evil.

CTS-XHP was also compared to steels, "a stainless D-2" or like 440C but better. Every mule surprises me, some I will use in a knife others I will not. When CTS-XHP came out I thought it was lower grade than S30V but after using the mules it has become one of my favorite steels. I don't thi...

I would love to see some a Caly platform mixed with some K390 or M4

I remember reading about an update to the Gayle Bradley. I searched and cannot find the thread. Any news on that one?

Cliff,
A couple of questions,
What would a Crucible equivalent of this steel be? Is there any semi-equivelent still in production? It makes me all the more interested to find out what this stuff is like in a mule team model.

I've seen this steel come up in a few threads but not that many people seem to have experience with it. Sal any chance of something with this steel? 2mm stock and a small classic pen knife with a Spydie twist?

Feather blades out of Japan, I can shave for 1-2 weeks with one and I have 100 blades for around $30. I suck at word problems so I'm not going there. I use the brush and wet shave and enjoy the experience.

I'm not an LEO, nor do I pretend to be one. I read the blog modern service weapons from time to time, I think it has some very good advice and this article might be helpful to you.
http://modernserviceweapons.com/?p=8148

I'm very tempted by the Ritter in M390. I have one in S30V and really love the blade shape and lock. Do you know if that is a production run?

Easy- K390 Caly with a compression lock

Wow, is that ever a beautiful blade

Has there ever been a convex ground Spyderco? How many of you convex your blades from a factory grind?

My intention in asking the question was what is the fastest opening folder in the spyderco line up. Not a self-defense question but do not want to discard that aspect either. From what I gather the PM2 and Emerson are the fastest.

I was using my cts-xhp mule today, I really, really like the steel. It takes a very nice edge and keeps it longer IMHO than VG-10. That said I am also enjoying super blue but XHP would be a great standard steel.

Sadly I find the opposite, Americans are not picky enough.

Glad your food photos are back, I was missing them

Dbcad, I'm looking to compare the two mules with same blade geometry. I have never owned D2 but I am happy with CTS-XHP. I don't expect the PSF27 to much better performance. I'm curious why for instance the new GB bowie is PSF27 instead of CTS-XHP. Is it a performance choice or economic one? Does th...

If I understand this correctly PSF27 is a spray formed version of D2 and CTS-XHP compares as a stainless D-2. Any thoughts as to how the steels would be in performance compared to each other?

The clearest example of planned obsolescence is the iPhone and different operating systems. Eventually they don't upgrade your preferred system (xp anyone?) and you need to upgrade. I would still be happy with the the first iPhone.

I don't buy spydercos because I need another knife