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This is what Jerry Hossom has to say about CPM3V on another forum; In my opinion, CPM-3V is the best knife steel ever. It has the finest grain structure of any high alloy steel used in knives today, about 1 micron. That translates into extraordinary toughness and arguably as fine an edge as can be h...

Am i the only one who would like to see the Military model made in CPM3V ? As far as i know there aren't any folders from this steel out there yet, Spyderco can still be the first to make one. Comparable edge retention to D2 and approaching the toughness levels of S7, looks like a killer blade mater...

A beefed up interframe Military made with Chris Reeve like production tolerances as well as a pivot bushing, and a Swisstool like lock executed by Sal himself.
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Did some testing on cutting and sharpening with Ceratitan. It keeps an edge for quite awhile cutting cardboard, but the biggest drawback for me is that you can't get a good sharp edge on the stuff. From the Sharpmaker to a Tormek to diamond hones, it won't come anywhere near the type of scarysharp e...

Welcome to these forums Sharkattack, have a good time here,
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This is just a suggestion, but you might give him Spyderco's address and have him send it to them when the time comes to sharpen it. ;) This could indeed be sound advice, and i will send him that adress, but i don't know exactly if he will use it. The man in question is around 70 years old and the ...

On my holiday earlier this year i visited some friends in Tucson Arizona, but wasn't able to locate a good knife shop to buy a Spyderco for one of them. Me and my girlfriend only stayed there for a couple of days though. So when i got back in Holland i sent a Jess Horn ZDP from my own collection to ...

The problem with the sharpening choil on the SNG can be fixed to a large degree by rounding the beginning of the edge with a stick from the Sharpmaker. Ofcourse you can still feel it's there when cutting rags and stuff, but it won't hook itself anymore. My SNG was a very bad example at first, with b...

I have 2 Hinderer XM-18's! I LOVE them!! They are EXCELLENT!! You can find them on Rick's dealers site, on occasion. Here are my pix of my 2. http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u130/TheKnifeCollector/my2XM-18s.jpg http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u130/TheKnifeCollector/BlackXM-183.jpg http://i167...

No offense, but that seems to negate the primary benefit of monocoque/interframe construction - simplicity - and reduce it to just a gimmick, like CF scales. If the engineers decide that the caged ball-lock would not be the right choice for an interframe folder, by all means, let them use another l...

Aren't those two specifications mutually exclusive? How would the ball get inside the handle? Make a slot in the steel or titanium core just big enough to fit in the ball, the G10 handle slabs that cover the core should have smaller slots to allow the user to manipulate the ball as well as prevent ...

A beefed up Military with an interframe handle. Keep the general shape of the blade but thicken it, especially the point area. Steel can be the flavor of the month, i'll happily leave that choice to Sal :D The handle core should consist of a one-piece steel or titanium U-tube with thin G10 overlay's...

There is a small line of 'historic' bowies out now from Paul Chen. Check them out, they are big, heavy and certainly look the part of a wild west bowie. Wouter We sell those historic Bowies in the shop, and i find them rather lightweight and agile. Most of the weight is situated around the handle, ...

I keep them all stored in their original boxes, quadruple checked and lubed. Every now and then when it's 'fondling time', they also get checked again, and, if necessary, lubed. The flavour of the day gets to spend the evening with me and returned to it's safe haven in the morning. ( I am very gentl...

Maybe Cliff isn't the most polite guy in the knife world, but i think his views on knives are going to be missed on Bladeforums. Although i am not planning on attacking some cinderblocks with my small sebbie, i always enjoyed reading his articles and learning from them. Somehow i don't think i am th...

I think that a 'zero edge' may have some application if you are a sushi chef, but in the real world, it would either chip or fold, IMO. Get it hard enough to keep an edge and it will chip. Get it soft enough not to chip and it would tend to fold. Interesting concept though. Chipping or folding depe...

The Deacon wrote:Guess I'm just to dumb to understand what practical advantage there is to a zero edge.

You could be right about that one.

All those Japanese Chefs that have used knives with zero edges for centuries, as well as Ernie Emerson who makes custom knives with zero edges can't all be wrong.

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Welkom Maarten,

This is a good place to be, no doubt about it.

So is this one by the way; http://messen.forumup.nl/index.php?mforum=messen

(En in je moerstaal)

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Very pretty cleavers, would also work perfectly for all kinds of vegetables.
I also especially like the fact that they have a zero edge,
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It doesn't necessarily need to be a straight razor, you could also use the geometry of a Japanese Deba grind. Meaning quite thick stock that is chisel grinded to a zero edge on one side and slightly concave on the other. You only sharpen the chisel grind and remove the burr on the other side. And ab...