I put this through my full battery of testing, 5/8" Manila rope cardboard and Wood.
The knife was reprofiled to 15 DPS and sharpened with a 400 Grit SIC stone before testing.
1st off was the 5/8" Manila Rope, the knife made 720 slicing cuts until the test was finished at a measured 20 LBS of down force, would cut printer paper clean after. There was no noticeable chips or other noticeable edge damage after.
2nd was the Cardboard, I stropped the edge a few times to clean it up on a SIC loaded strop. Cut up all the cardboard seen here and the knife would slice printer paper clean after.
3rd and last was the wood, cut the wood taking thick and thin slices, did very well as you can see, the knife wasn't sharpened after the cardboard.
In Closing.
The Manix 2 performed extremely well overall and I didn't notice any problems with blade play at all. It was comfortable in hand and didn't notice any hot spots when cutting, CPM S110V performed as expected at the 62-63 RC range.
Ankerson have you done this to the Techno or anything else with CTS-XHP? If not, is there anything with the same properties (D2?) that you did do a documented cut test with?
Edit: Did some searching and saw you tested a Military with XHP. It seems to have similar properties to ZDP-189.
The Techno is apparently at around 60-62 HRC. Since most of the edge retention comes from hardness, Is this sufficiently hard?
Scorpion wrote:Ankerson have you done this to the Techno or anything else with CTS-XHP? If not, is there anything with the same properties (D2?) that you did do a documented cut test with?
Edit: Did some searching and saw you tested a Military with XHP. It seems to have similar properties to ZDP-189.
The Techno is apparently at around 60-62 HRC. Since most of the edge retention comes from hardness, Is this sufficiently hard?
One never knows what they really are until they are tested to see.
