REX 45 Military In Stock!

[Killswitch]

Here are some pics!

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[Killswitch]

The last image with flash on is too big and im too lazy to resize it! looks better without the flash anyhow.

[Killswitch]

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[Ferris Wheels]

Surprised these haven't started to drop at the big retailers yet. All the ones received so far look like the winner we all expected.

[AwayFromMySpydieHole]

Wow the stock picture at bento box is horrendous.

Spyderco consistently seems to sharpen 1/8 of an inch off of new militaries for some reason. I brought this to Sal's attention over a year ago and showed evidence of how this has gotten progressively worse over the years.

Here we are a over a year later and it hasn't gotten better. That stinks.


ETA: The pic killswitch posted above looks great. No oversharpening at all. There seems to be a lot of variability with this. Perhaps there's one machine/person who is doing this and only some knives are affected due to that.

[Doeswhateveraspidercan]

Are you saying they are 1/8th of an inch shorter?

[vivi]

Are you saying they are 1/8th of an inch shorter?

Compare the rex 45 millie on their page to the rest. Notice the J shape along the cutting edge by the ricasso? Usually you have to sharpen a Millie for a few years to make it look like that.

[ABX2011]

Oversharpening by the base is common across manufacturers. It bothers me too but I understand why it happens in a production setting.

[wrdwrght]

Surprised these haven't started to drop at the big retailers yet

I am, too. Seems like a very different sprint “season” this year.

[Rutger]

Might just be a bad example on that BentoBox store page. My 204P military is fine. I got the REX45 military in the mail, i'll check it out when it gets here. Should be soon.

One thing i did notice when comparing my knives is that my REX45 PM2 has a worse grind along the plunge line than all my other Spyderco's. My other knives have an almost perfect T shape there while the PM2 has some meat left in the corners. Both my REX45 PM2's have it. I don't any other PM2's so i don't know if this a normal on that model. Made a quick photo comparing a PM2, Para 3 and Military. PM2 in the middle.

[Woodpuppy]

Oh ya, that’s awful. Best just to send them to me.

[Rutger]

Received my millie today, REX45 family is complete now. :cool:
The grind on mine is fine.

[Evil D]

Maybe I'm missing something with this over sharpening thing but I believe what you guys are seeing is the difference in how blades are sharpened. The edge used to go all the way to the plunge line but apparently the robots can't get that close so you sometimes see a small bit if blade that has no bevel ground into it and that seems to give the appearance that the bevel is ground deeper than it should be. I say this because I don't recall ever hearing this claim 5 years ago when the edge hit the plunge line. At most you heard complaints about unevel bevel widths but now that we see less of that our focus has moved on to the next detail.

[Rutger]

Maybe I'm missing something with this over sharpening thing but I believe what you guys are seeing is the difference in how blades are sharpened. The edge used to go all the way to the plunge line but apparently the robots can't get that close so you sometimes see a small bit if blade that has no bevel ground into it and that seems to give the appearance that the bevel is ground deeper than it should be. I say this because I don't recall ever hearing this claim 5 years ago when the edge hit the plunge line. At most you heard complaints about unevel bevel widths but now that we see less of that our focus has moved on to the next detail.

No they mean something different. It's not about how close the edge gets to the plunge grind. It's about how deep the edge grind is. Essentially you already lost some life off your knife before you even used it. I've taken the Bentobox picture and made an edit to show it. But my military's do not have this issue.

[Evil D]

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Ah gotcha. This kinda ties into my thickness behind the edge thread. I'd like to measure one of these against another one and see how they compare.

[brj]

Mine looks good - here alongside my close-to-10-years-old other Orange Millie

[Peacedivision]

in stock at BladeHQ

[camvdcs]

in stock at BladeHQ

Out of stock now.

[Extra330SC]

in stock at BladeHQ

Thank you. .scored one!

James

[Gsg9]

Mine looks good - here alongside my close-to-10-years-old other Orange Millie

If it's a Sprint Military it's brj :D

Actually the old one looks pretty bad :D