A nice article in Blade magazine with pictures on the testing of nine different steels. I would imagine Cliff would like to comment, as this could bring many factors into play. I'm surprised that Gayle Bradley was testing CTS-XHP instead of M4. Any comments?
Sorry, I thought all knife afficianados subscribed to Blade magazine. The steels were heat treated to mfg. specs., and then were put to a test of skinning deer. How many skinned before resharpening by a person that has skinned thousands of deer. CTS XHP and CPM S30V were in last place with three. On top was CPM M4 with fifteen. CPM S90V(11). CPM110V(8). CPM154(8). CTS 204P(6). CPM D2(6).CTS40CP(4). CPM S35VN(4).CTSB75P(4). CTS BD30P(4). That's more than I'ves typed in years. Think I'll go take a nap.
It certainly seems an "interesting" cutting medium to pick, not to mention impossible to track. Same reason my scale lists pounds rather than mid-sized Golden Retrievers.
Blerv wrote:It certainly seems an "interesting" cutting medium to pick, not to mention impossible to track. Same reason my scale lists pounds rather than mid-sized Golden Retrievers.
lol! :D
-Spencer
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Well, legend says that when a samurai sword was forged and sharpened back in the day, it was tested by slicing through a pile of bodies from your fallen enemies, and if it didn't slice clean through a certain number of bodies, the sword was melted down and destroyed and made new again. Maybe they're onto something with this skinning to test for sharpness thing. I need to start trapping squirrels or something in my back hard and then I'll test my edges by slicing through the bodies of fallen enemy squirrels. Any suggestions on how many squirrel bodies is a sufficient amount to slice through to qualify as a sharp edge?
