JSumm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:23 am
Wartstein wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 11:15 pm
JSumm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 5:21 pm
Meaning you don't really like SE?
Could you elaborate why? (Honest question out of real interest in that type of edge )
I don't know. My first SE. I have been carrying it exclusively for almost a week. Just trying to see if there is any advantage to me. I'm going to keep carrying it for awhile to see if it changes my preferences.
Thanks.
Curious how it will work out for you in the end. In a way SE is a mystery to me, or rather how at least to some degree differently it is perceived and seen by folks who actually all have in common that they use their knives in various tasks and know a thing or two about using knives. And, while I am really not a sharpening or steel guru, I do include myself into that group of more or less experienced knife
users.
Honestly, when I got my Endela SE I did not expect much, if at all I was rather biased
against SE (did not use or like the sabre grind SE or CE Endura and Delica serrations I knew beforehand that much).
But the performance of that Endela SE just blew me away, rather out of the blue. For me it just worked (and still works) better in almost any task I do with folders, and I may say there is quite a variety concerning those.
Furthermore it stayed (and stays) sharp longer than PE, is quicker and easier to sharpen, and still separates matter quite well when technically not sharp anymore. Makes me actually a pretty lazy sharpener. I feel that perhaps coarse PE is on par in many tasks, but probably only if one stays on top of it and keeps it pretty sharp all the time.
(But let me repeat: I can´t tell how much the steep chisel grind of SE contributes to that for me better performance, and not the teeth themselves).
So I am pretty much in line with other (and more experienced) "SE guys" like David.
But, and that said: There are a lot of folks like Vivi, Ladybug, Rick, you... who definitely know their stuff (sure some much better than I do) and use knives a lot (sure some more than I do), but feel differently - prefer PE overall or at least in some / many tasks.
Don´t know - might be due to rather subtle differences in how exactly one uses knives - or how one likes that a cut "feels" - or to the particular way one sharpens their knives...?!
Anyway: As with most things Spydercos: There are choices, for those who prefer SE and those who prefer PE, and those who like both, so all good.
