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Now you tell me. Mine won't shave, but I have put a useable edge on it using nothing more than my DMT Diafolds and patience. It took a few hours, but I spent half an hour carving hardwood with no edge degradation.

Will I destroy my diamonds on this blunt piece of ceramic? I have no clue. Should I even try? The diamonds are far harder than this ceramic could possibly be. The matrix holding those diamonds is not. If you trust the abrasive to do the job in its own time, use VERY light pressure and take your tim...

Dane wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:58 am

Whats is hardness of those mules?

Harder than any steel and some ceramics. It would likely go off the top of the Rockwell C scale if it could be Rockwell tested.

I received mine yesterday. Opened one box, took out the knife and felt the edge. It felt quite dull, so I tried cutting the cardboard shipping box, which it did cleanly. When I got home and got it cord wrapped I tried whittling a bit on a hardwood project I had laying around. It worked better than I...

I have four C54 Calypso unlined Micarta folders. Two have straight blades, two have warped blades. They are a dream for in waistband carry, smooth and light with a ridiculous amount of cutting power. I have noticed the blade centering changing when carrying IWB in the summer heat during periods of (...

Could be the case. My only experience with the Caly Jr. is a stainless handle one which I thought was pinned like the SS Delicas and Enduras, but now that you mention it, maybe only the lock bar pivot was pinned. In fact, I think it might have been you that I sold that SS Caly Jr. to on eBay many y...

Maybe my memory is failing, but I seem to recall the Jr. being a one-piece molded handle. I don't know if it would require a new mold to change to a screw pivot, but if it does it probably shoots that idea down.

That Calypso Jr. handle mold must be getting pretty long in the tooth by now. I hope it has another Sprint in it. My fingers are long enough that I prefer the extra width at the pivot area over the deeper choil of the Caly3. I'd buy a Junior Sprint in just about anything except AUS8.

The description on the website says the liners are full on the lightweight rather than nested as is common on other lightweights, so you should be good.

Woot! Just got my shipping notice.

Near as I can tell from Spydiwiki, it's a 2001 Pre-Diver. Not a lot of info available, but a pretty rare piece of Spyderco history. It was before H-1, so it will require some care to prevent rust if you choose to use it. I would suggest getting a Salt2 and using it instead.

All I could find in the wiki article.

Emerson Wave opener were made for a self defense forum. It was limited to 500 pieces, of those a 25 were bought and embellished for Messerforum.net.

It's a starting point if you're interested in searching.

Enabling group for certain. There are exactly 7 million steps in the program, which leads to Nirvana, Valhalla or Olympus depending on your path at 6 million.

The Boye dent in the lockbar was added in 2002, and it was replaced by the Gen4 in 2006, so somewhere in that span. The Krein regrind probably cost as much as the knife. Since it's discontinued and Tom isn't doing regrinds any more, it would be almost impossible to replace, but the actual value woul...

I was over a grand for the Seconds Sale after I corrected them on the Swayback. It rang up as a small zipper pouch for $10 instead of the $150 it was supposed to be.

JayHenMac wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:07 am

I can't imagine what it must be like for some of you folks who have knife collections with numbers in the hundreds. How do you choose? How do you manage?

Try in the thousands. How do I manage? Cargo pants. I carry more knives than most hardware stores every day.

I just tried throwing 200 in my cart, but I didn't have $30,000 to cover the tab, so I didn't try checking out. It did let me put them in there, though.

I plan to do the same thing I always do, just slower. (I have been freehanding on diamond hones since 1980.) For those of us who don't have your usual sharpening procedure memorized... at what grit will you start? I won't know until I have them in hand. I usually reserve the Extra Coarse DMT for ch...

I plan to do the same thing I always do, just slower. (I have been freehanding on diamond hones since 1980.)

MightyQ wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:15 am

No limit of 2 on this one?

Sal said they made 2000 to cover the tooling costs, so they should have about 1800 to sell. At $150 a pop, hopefully the flippers will go broke trying to resell them.

I got my two without drama even though I was busy doing something else at drop time.