Recently got the Manix 2 in this steel with the brown FRCP handle; l love it. l haven't taken any pics yet but the brown is great. It is the exact same colour as Dairy Milk chocolate from the UK. It actually have a very slight red/burgundy hue in the brown too. Very nice.
The ergos are great. The broad blade is great for cutting. It makes it really easy to align the cut. The Manix affords a number of grip options with the finger choil. l love the lock because the friction is so low. lt's a dream to operate. This allows you to tighten the pivot more and have the lock up super tight.
It seems like great steel. It's taken a really bitey edge and holds it really well; l love how aggressive it is. Edge retention has been very nice too. Seems like the steel is hard. Does anyone know the rockwell? Seems like a silly question but does steel hardness change the tonal qualities? Blade has a slight 'ring or 'ting' that my hard 4V knife also has but my vg-10 and n690Co steels don't.
Will take some pics.
Manix2 in CTS-XHP short review.
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Re: Manix2 in CTS-XHP short review.
Manix 2 is my favorite folding knife. The XHP version is ridiculously easy to sharpen and get a mirror polished edge.
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Re: Manix2 in CTS-XHP short review.
not an expert here, but I doubt it. Spyderco doesn't disclose Rockwell ratings. I'd assume the XHP is near their s30v, at or around 60.Dickson wrote: Does anyone know the rockwell? Seems like a silly question but does steel hardness change the tonal qualities?
Re: Manix2 in CTS-XHP short review.
The Manix2 G-10 was my first Spyderco and I was amazed at how well it fit in hand and how you could release the lock and the blade would just fall by gravity into the handle, even if you held it just slightly off horizontal. I'd never seen a knife work that smoothly. Since then I've got several, including lightweight, and XL size, which operates just like the regular size and is even more comfortable in hand for me. As for the regular size, I really like the lightweight models because they are so discrete to carry, and XHP is a great steel. But for everyday use my favorites are the sprints, because they're a bit heftier than the FRCP models but, having skeletonized liners, are a little lighter than the regular production G-10 models.
K-390 on hand: Mule Team 17, Police 4 G-10, Endela (burlap micarta), Endela backup, Endura (canvas micarta), Straight Stretch (now blade-swapped with G-10 Stretch), Delica Wharncliffe, Dragonfly Wharncliffe, & Dragonfly Wharncliffe shorty mod
Note to self: Less is more.
Note to self: Less is more.
Re: Manix2 in CTS-XHP short review.
pics
Hope you can see then. l was having trouble.
Hope you can see then. l was having trouble.
Re: Manix2 in CTS-XHP short review.
CTS-XHP in my experience is quite similar to CPM-154 and RWL-34 and I love that class. I also love the Manix2 but missed out on this version.Dickson wrote:Recently got the Manix 2 in this steel with the brown FRCP handle; l love it. l haven't taken any pics yet but the brown is great. It is the exact same colour as Dairy Milk chocolate from the UK. It actually have a very slight red/burgundy hue in the brown too. Very nice.
The ergos are great. The broad blade is great for cutting. It makes it really easy to align the cut. The Manix affords a number of grip options with the finger choil. l love the lock because the friction is so low. lt's a dream to operate. This allows you to tighten the pivot more and have the lock up super tight.
It seems like great steel. It's taken a really bitey edge and holds it really well; l love how aggressive it is. Edge retention has been very nice too. Seems like the steel is hard. Does anyone know the rockwell? Seems like a silly question but does steel hardness change the tonal qualities? Blade has a slight 'ring or 'ting' that my hard 4V knife also has but my vg-10 and n690Co steels don't.
Will take some pics.
To discuss the part in bold.
There is a relationship between a steels selected tempering temperature, hardness, toughness, impact strength and corrosion resistance. Here is a simple graph showing HRC, impact strength and tempering temperature.
So depending on a steels heat treatment for the appropriate application you can have a steel that is the same HRC but with completely different characteristics.
For knives, a low tempering temperature is generally more suited as you do not want to sacrifice corrosion resistance and want a balanced steel. There was an article published some time ago where the tester found that higher tempering temperature (used to achieve secondary hardening) decreased Elmax's corrosion resistance to that of O1. I know similar happens with RWL-34 if you shoot for that secondary hardening. There are of coarse steels outside of the norm such as Nitrobe-77 where secondary hardening does not influence corrosion resistance that much as the steel contains a large amount of Nitrogen to help with corrosion resistance.