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It seems to take an aggressive very sharp toothy edge even when I take it to 1200 on my DMT with good retention and relatively above average toughness. Diamond is always going to give a "toothy" edge compared to other abrasives. It might be because Spyderco has a close relationship with C...

I noticed my new Native 5 Forum 2015 knife had a rattle to it. I was shaking it and out rolled a screw! :confused: I looked at the knife, and sure enough there was a screw missing at the point just behind the lock release. I simply screwed it back in with a torx head screw driver. I was lucky it wa...

PM processing only significantly increases the toughness when the fractures are with the carbide grain, it does little when the fractures go across the grain. Totally didn't know that, though the wood analogy makes it clear. Thanks for the detailed follow up. Much of what I've learned has come from...

For strictly office type work, ZDP is the equivalent of swatting flies with a sledge hammer. VG10 will do you fine. All flies must die, no matter how, as long as its now! :D So since I am on my noob question thread, and it has been brought up, I think I understand "toughness" to mean some...

trying to decide if the ZDP DF is worth the extra money for an office EDC, Well, even VG-10 is going to be overkill for "office EDC". If you mean opening opening letters, cleaning fingernails and maybe occasional cardboard, then something as pedestrian as Kershaw 420HC will remain relativ...

Saw the Nirvana Dropping post and got to thinking....this is pretty pricey, and beautiful, so is this going to be the king of safe Queens.....Or the one I'll just have to EDC almost always forever...making everything else bench warmers....kinda leaning towards the latter. I know that if I buy it, I...

I never use them on my knives that have them. If I want tip control, I put my index finger on the spine of the knife and choke up on the handle with the rest of my hand. Don't need a choil for that. I find when I use the choil it tends to limit how much of the cutting edge I can use, because if I c...

I feel stupid asking this, but how am I supposed to hold this knife? I love everything else about the E4, which is why I've given it so many chances. That's it, there's two grips. One further bad for strong force and one upfront for weaker force. The back-grip is actually not that far away from the...

Anyone know the RC on the foundry CTS-XHP or Rc on Native 5 s35vn? I would like to buy one or the other but I would like to know the Rockwell of both first. Spyderco doesn't officially disclose RC ratings for business reasons. The s35vn is probably the same as s30v at around 59-60RC. The XHP is pro...

I noticed I never carried my s110v manix because i was afraid of how brittle it might be so I decided to test it, That turned into testing the 3 steels until significant damage. It was not meant to be a ranking, scientific or so forth, It was simply to establish what these steels would tolerate at ...

This came up in the cruwear thread and I thought it was worth a new thread to get peoples thoughts? If I'm not mistaken, the standard Golden models are all going to be produced in s110v. Who would be interested in having simultaneous offerings in both s110v and Cruwear? Hopefully not, as doing so w...

So i just bought a brand new Endura 4. the knife is half straight edge and half serrated. This is my first spyderco and my first high end pocket knife to begin with. I am familiar with Spyderco's though because my older brother has owned several. I have the smiths poacketpal sharpener that has a ro...

So after some extremely heavy wear my dragonfly is finally starting to choke on paper cutting tests, not surprisingly ofcourse as i have used it extensively. I want to know if anyone has any tips of how to sharpen it, my sharpening setup is poor because I live in europe, and getting a sharpmaker or...

So after some extremely heavy wear my dragonfly is finally starting to choke on paper cutting tests, not surprisingly ofcourse as i have used it extensively. I want to know if anyone has any tips of how to sharpen it, my sharpening setup is poor because I live in europe, and getting a sharpmaker or...

No one is going to dispute the fact that D2 has a much lower fracture toughness than 1084 but that doesn't mean that the guys using the D2 blades all see chipping. That's the thing: what constitutes toughness, or for that matter abrasiveness? Isn't everything "abrasive" to some degree? I'...

http://postimg.org/image/7fzwargbd/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Knife just came back in. The S90v is on the blade but now one of the rear screws holding the FRN together is missing. Is the missing screw a big deal? Will the knife fall apart? I really don't feel like send...

The mindset around s110v seems to be of it being a "niche" steel like h1, S7 etc. While m390 is generally regarded as an upgrade to s30v or vg10 with no real drawbacks, S110v, which is one of the most wear resistance steels made, doesn't quite have the same excitement. I'm not sure if tha...

They are not meant to show which knife is better, as that will be situation and user-dependent. Not really, there is a subtle marketing technique at work here: pay lip-service to impartiality while concealing bias within the brief asides and inflections of the commentary. It's not Cold Steel, it's ...

you could end up with a loss of negotiation power/ability. That's generally true but considering the nature of the cutlery industry and Spyderco's prominent, if not foremost reputation in that industry, the moment a real loss of margin is caused by Amazon is when those sellers Amazon previously ran...

If you really don't want to spend money, buy Spyderco's new kitchen utility knife from Amazon for around $25 dollars, a great value. Its in CTS-BD1, which is nearly identical to VG-10 and you end up paying about 50 dollars less. I'm sorry, not the Utility knife but the Paring knife, the one with a ...