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Chris_P_Bacon

Hey Bloke,
Can you carve a stick to resemble a birds head, an if it has any knots, use one for an eye. Then add some feather stick curls to give it a beard and sideburns?

O wait, nevermind....

Chris_P_Bacon

There are many reasons why people flock to Spyderco as a brand. For me, the two biggest reason are design, and steel options. I've already found a design that works good enough for me in my daily work EDC (and have backups). I could easily call it a day and walk away. The main reason why I'm here no...

Chris_P_Bacon

The four that still sit on my want list are;
PM2
Swick 5
Catcherman PE
Catcherman SE

Chris_P_Bacon

Not into stainless steels that are a pain to sharpen. I'd rather go with a steel that skews towards toughness and ease of sharpening. If you took a hard pass on two knives that were $150 each, and took that $300 and bought all three of the new Venev double sided resin bonded diamond bench stones. I...

Chris_P_Bacon

JonLeBlanc wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:00 pm
What steels and scales combos would one like to see?

Curtain colors and materials don't concern me much, long as they aren't pink or fuchsia.

HAP 72 on a Stretch 3 would fly off the shelves.

Chris_P_Bacon

Call the police! There's a madman around...

Chris_P_Bacon

Jim, If you still have as large an assortment of high end knives that I assume you may still have. You owe it to yourself to try these new stones. I have tried and own a pretty extensive sets of different stones. My favorites to date, are naniwa resin bonded. But even so, I still seek out the latest...

Chris_P_Bacon

Either finish, at factory angles is one thing, and makes for a fun discussion, but if you are seriously wanting performance, lower angles are where it's at. If you can try different angles, lower than what the sharp maker allows. You will see your edge improve as you get shallower and shallower. The...

Chris_P_Bacon

It's understood they want certain steels to be reserved for sprints, Cruwear being one of those.

But c'mon already, since no one has commissioned the XL in Cruwear, How 'bout a Flash batch?

Insta-buy for me.

If it sells out in Five minutes, then immediately second run.

Chris_P_Bacon

RadioactiveSpyder wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 29, 2019 10:43 am
I held a Caly 3.5 FRN prototype at the April OKCA show

Do you recall if that one was pinned, or screw construction?

Chris_P_Bacon

Larrin wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 29, 2019 4:08 am
I’m happy to see they haven’t managed to exceed the insane carbide content of Rex 121

Not really understanding why that would make you happy?

Care to elaborate?

Chris_P_Bacon

V350 stainless 20% carbide at 60 hrc? meh... I'd probably opt for V280 20% carbide in the middle range, say 66-67 hrc. Yea I get it. I too, am kinda meh on low edge retention offerings as well, in this case however my thinking was more in line with testing purposes. More so for that part of the com...

Chris_P_Bacon

lol Mako, that's hilarious because the whole time I was reading it I was seeing it as the pronunciation vib-in-ite. Totally missed it.
:o
Split shifts have me all out of whack rite now. Too funny though, ya sicko :D

That'd be over the top if it was actually pronounced Vibe-Nite.

Chris_P_Bacon

Cool animations, I'd like to see the real thing. Me too, JP If I had a 3D-rendering of a decent (say mule sized) fixed blade. I'd certainly be willing to contact them with intent to have it mocked up (rough finish). Plus, I'd also be willing to forward it along to BBB, if he's interested in giving ...

Chris_P_Bacon

If you fancy yourself a steel nerd or just love new tech, here's a pretty cool Seven page article with the low down.

Linked from Metal AM Summer 2019 by Inovar Communications.

http://issuu.com/inovar-communications/ ... 019_sp/143

Chris_P_Bacon

I still feel that the more conventional pm steels have a lot of potential not fully realized. There are also some steels we have yet to see. Not quite time to jump ship yet boys. Agreed, just wanted to say. CPM S35VN was one of the only steels designed specifically for cutting blades/knives. But is...

Chris_P_Bacon

VBN Components AB, has a total of Five new alloys, which they use in the PMAM process based on Electron Beam - Powder Bed Fusion [EB-PBF]. Vibenite 150 ~7% carbides, range 55-63 HRC Vibenite 280 ~20%carbides, range 63-70 HRC Vibenite 290 ~25%carbides, range 68-72 HRC, World's Hardest Steel Vibenite ...

Chris_P_Bacon

Like you, Chris, I believe 3d printing and its more advanced variations, as time goes on, will prove to the skeptics to yield all that conventional steel-making gives us, as well as new properties that fundamentally change the way things are in the materials world. I am also very glad that Sal, Eri...

Chris_P_Bacon

Chris_P_Bacon wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:30 pm

Deadboxhero wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:20 pm
Show me the barstock or it's not real :D
vid says "any shape", so barstock is possible, but they could cut out the rough blade, and rough the angle. Saving you a pile of belts.

https://youtu.be/6vkmClVyvVI

Chris_P_Bacon

Chris_P_Bacon wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:30 pm

Deadboxhero wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:20 pm
Show me the barstock or it's not real :D
lol That's the beauty of it, there is no bar stock in the traditional sense. They can 3d a rough blade easily enough though, for a fee.
But, I know you were just razzin' me.

https://youtu.be/pyUusVcyGOY

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