Re: What Spyderco is in your pocket today??
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:18 pm
Since returning from Toronto and the Muskokas a week or so ago, I've resumed carrying my M4 PM2. I'm intent on getting a nice natural patina on it. Once done, it will likely join my 204P PM2 as part of my EDC rotation.
During my 10 days in Canada, I alternated a Stretch2 and S35V Native5 (they are also part of my rotation)
Today, although the PM2 was in the usual RFP, I put a PE Pacific Salt in my back pocket to tackle an overgrown bed of Bearded Irises.
Once I lifted the 15 yards of super-crowded rhizomes, I used the Pacific Salt to cut off the abundant rhizome excess. The H1's edge rolled a bit under force of my hand banging on the spine to get the edge through the densely fibrous rhizomes and accumulated grit from the soil. Must have trimmed 200 rhizomes with little loss of cutting power and no lasting damage to the edge.
No longer do I need to whine about getting the Pacific Salt in plain-edge rather than Spyderedge. It's toughness and easy comeback from damage to the edge make it perfect for the kind of hard-use I subjected it to.
I'm relieved I didn't need to put my M4 PM2 to this task.
During my 10 days in Canada, I alternated a Stretch2 and S35V Native5 (they are also part of my rotation)
Today, although the PM2 was in the usual RFP, I put a PE Pacific Salt in my back pocket to tackle an overgrown bed of Bearded Irises.
Once I lifted the 15 yards of super-crowded rhizomes, I used the Pacific Salt to cut off the abundant rhizome excess. The H1's edge rolled a bit under force of my hand banging on the spine to get the edge through the densely fibrous rhizomes and accumulated grit from the soil. Must have trimmed 200 rhizomes with little loss of cutting power and no lasting damage to the edge.
No longer do I need to whine about getting the Pacific Salt in plain-edge rather than Spyderedge. It's toughness and easy comeback from damage to the edge make it perfect for the kind of hard-use I subjected it to.
I'm relieved I didn't need to put my M4 PM2 to this task.
