Why CPM 3V

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Interesting. A friend, a big collector and knife enthusiast, said that spyderco's heat treatment is not unique. It's just good quality, without trying to extract the maximum potential from the steel.

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Ahh, my kind of thread. Love it.

I had several Carothers, and currently have 1. I also commissioned a 3V fixed blade bowie from Nic Groniger (small US custom knife maker) and couldn't be more pleased:




3V is a phenomenal steel that I believe could benefit from the extra time and effort to optimize, similar to 15V. Either Shawn Houston or Nathan Carothers would be an excellent choice to help develop it. Or perhaps Shawn AND Nathan? The ultimate Spyderco collaboration? Could be quite an amazing thing.

I've searched high and low for a folding knife in 3V, and a lot of those searches end back at Demko designs, so that will probably be a route that I go, but I will be eagerly awaiting Spyderco's re-entry into 3V, and potentially, even working w/ Larrin and whichever foundry will be making this steel, to tweak the recipe to perhaps throw in a little Niobium. I believe there is a lot of room for 3V to grow, either in composition or in heat treat, or both. In Larrin's re-testing of 3V, it was found to be even better than first believed.

While I do believe something in Spyderco's folding repertoire should be offered in this amazing steel; a Bodacious would be AMAZING. I can understand the draw to a fixed blade, though. If that is where we start, that is fine. First, let's get a Mule going, and then I would love to see a 3V version of this:

I was trying to look for knives on 15V and found a couple of maxace. Should I look at this manufacturer?

[Evil D]

My answer these days is always going to be "make it in a Bodacious" and I know I'm a broken record but it's a stout enough beater capable design but is also thinner than a Shaman and a better slicer so it's a good all around design for a hard use knife.

[Red Leader]

Ahh, my kind of thread. Love it.

I had several Carothers, and currently have 1. I also commissioned a 3V fixed blade bowie from Nic Groniger (small US custom knife maker) and couldn't be more pleased:




3V is a phenomenal steel that I believe could benefit from the extra time and effort to optimize, similar to 15V. Either Shawn Houston or Nathan Carothers would be an excellent choice to help develop it. Or perhaps Shawn AND Nathan? The ultimate Spyderco collaboration? Could be quite an amazing thing.

I've searched high and low for a folding knife in 3V, and a lot of those searches end back at Demko designs, so that will probably be a route that I go, but I will be eagerly awaiting Spyderco's re-entry into 3V, and potentially, even working w/ Larrin and whichever foundry will be making this steel, to tweak the recipe to perhaps throw in a little Niobium. I believe there is a lot of room for 3V to grow, either in composition or in heat treat, or both. In Larrin's re-testing of 3V, it was found to be even better than first believed.

While I do believe something in Spyderco's folding repertoire should be offered in this amazing steel; a Bodacious would be AMAZING. I can understand the draw to a fixed blade, though. If that is where we start, that is fine. First, let's get a Mule going, and then I would love to see a 3V version of this:

I was trying to look for knives on 15V and found a couple of maxace. Should I look at this manufacturer?

Don’t know a ton about Maxace and don’t have any experience with them so I couldn’t say, unfortunately.