Reveal 16 15V alert thread time?

[CDEP]

Indiana Knives is taking orders for the PARA3 LW with expected delivery to them around Xmas Eve.

https://indianaknives.com/products/unti ... pify_email

[Capt'n Boatsalot]

FOMO is real even though the P3 isn't a model that works for me. Holding strong so far. This shouldn't be this hard...

[barnaclesonaboat]

FOMO is real even though the P3 isn't a model that works for me. Holding strong so far. This shouldn't be this hard...

Haha this is the truth! I wasn't prepared, have struggled today, but am still holding strong, too

[Mrj]

Para 3 LW
Red hill
https://redhillcutlery.com/product/spyd ... wn-para-3/

[Team Sick]

The LW model doesn't bother me because I like the AWT replacement scales better than G-10. The steel is real!

[WilliamMunny]

FOMO is real even though the P3 isn't a model that works for me. Holding strong so far. This shouldn't be this hard...

It was an easy choice for me. Para 3 LW is one of my favorite 3” knives. Add 15v, made it a spirit run and sell it for a very reasonable price and you have a winner.

But I do already have 3 Para 3’s so one will have to go. You can only have so many knives, yes I said it. An unused knife is knife abuse.

[Brock O Lee]

Patiently waiting for the M2...

[CDEP]

Knifeworks PARA 3 LW

https://knifeworks.com/spyderco-para-mi ... 223pbn15v/

[dullmaker]

FOMO is real even though the P3 isn't a model that works for me. Holding strong so far. This shouldn't be this hard...

It was an easy choice for me. Para 3 LW is one of my favorite 3” knives. Add 15v, made it a spirit run and sell it for a very reasonable price and you have a winner.


Thanks Spyderco

[dullmaker]

Double post

[Manifestgtr]

Pulled the trigger on a lw

There’s something about the para 3 lw that I really like…above and beyond the g10 para 3. They’re nowhere near as refined as the sage 5 but they’re kind of the closest thing to a flick toy in Spyderco’s catalog. The color and steel selection make this a no brainer for me. With the 15v mil 2, magnacut sage and Crucarta Natives around the corner, I’m in pretty hopeless shape for the foreseeable future

[Mrj]

Para 3 LW
Knifecenter
https://www.knifecenter.com/item/SP223P ... military-3

[Mrj]

Para LW
DLT
https://www.dlttrading.com/spyderco-par ... sprint-run
Oos

[WilliamMunny]

Para 3 LW
REC
https://riversedgecutlery.com/spyderco- ... 223pbn15v/

OOS

[RustyIron]

It's interesting that these Sprints are available even to folks who aren't sitting at their desks all day waiting for a drop. Maybe the boys and girls at Spyderco have bumped up production a little bit. We saw this on the PD#1 Sprints, as well. Nice!

[dullmaker]

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to purchase one of my favorite models and steel at a very fair price. Thanks Spyderco.

[Cletus]

One PM3 on the way to continue my 15v BBB collection.

[dj moonbat]

So, what is it that BBB has done to 15V that makes it so good? Can anyone point me to an explanation of the process?

[GarageBoy]

Standard steps for 15v heat treat (in tooling) ends up too brittle for blades. He developed a heat treat that makes it work for blades, and then worked with Spyderco, including procuring a specific heat with optimum properties so it could be mass produced

[WilliamMunny]

So, what is it that BBB has done to 15V that makes it so good? Can anyone point me to an explanation of the process?

This just scratches the surface, but is a quick explanation of 15v and how it came to be produced by Spyderco.

Quote from BBB,

“ Well, it's no secret I've always been a big fan of k390, 10V and Maxamet.

I was curious if there were something in between 10V/K390 properties and Maxamet Properties like a balance between them since that would be a really cool sweet spot for a steel guys and edge junkies to play with.

At the time Maxamet was in more limited production and I had asked Sal if we could get a Spyderco in CPM 15V, at the time I was concerned Maxamet would stop being produced since it is so brutal to work with and I felt like high carbide tool steels at high hardness are very unique and should be widely available as something junkies should get an opportunity to experience. (Of course Maxamet is in full swing currently which we should all give Spyderco a round of applause for.)

CPM 15V looked like a really neat steel on paper but when the original protocol was followed it didn't appear to create a high performance knife blade edge as much as it was designed for a high wear industrial cutting part or component.

After years of testing, a protocol was developed that showed great promise and did well in my custom work.

In my custom knives I quite enjoy the CPM 15V I get lots of aggression at the edge, it apex nice and crispy and deburrs like a champ, it really hits a nice sweet spot before going more extreme in properties and trade offs like with Maxamet and Rex 121. Yet 15V would offer more cutting edge retention than 10V/K390/PMA11 Thanks to the increased vanadium carbide volume.

Originally, Spyderco had asked to do a collaboration knife with me and I asked Sal if he would be kind enough to use the steel and heat treatment I wanted which Sal was kind enough to oblige.

Well, I wanted that collaboration to be done at the Golden factory because they make my favorite Spyderco models. However, the Golden factory was already at maximum manufacturing capacity and would take many many years to ever get to doing a new collaboration folder project. Now combine that with the pandemic and other unseen circumstances and it looked like it was going to be a very, very long time which didn't bother me, I would wait a lifetime to see a dream come true.

Eric had proposed in the meantime while we are waiting he would like to get the CPM 15V out to folks with my heat treatment which is quite an honor and I'm very thankful and grateful.

There were different options for different handle scale materials but at the end of the day, the spirit of the project was to get the CPM 15V knives out to people sooner than later not add more delay.

Brown G10 was available and ready to go, also BBB "Big Brown Bear"

Worked out perfectly.

There was a lot of back and forth with translating the heat treatment it wasn't as simple as just giving them a cooking recipe.(nothing ever is)

I was given the authority and autonomy to select the melt, and work directly with and lead the heat treatment team.

I'm quite satisfied with how it came out and this is truly a unique and very special sprint run.”