Manix 2 C101PGY2 W/ Maxamet

[hank_612]

I am wondering why Bento Box shop says they haven't received any yet.

The online retailer that I typically buy from has not received any yet either.

Thank you.

[DougC-3]

Drat. I'm going to have to wait awhile on this one. I'm interested in the treatment on the blade. Some more pics would be nice. I wonder if they treated it some way to give it some resistance to further oxidation, or to make it oxidize more evenly?

[farnorthdan]

Mines waiting in my mailbox right now, I'll try to get a couple pics up tonight, also interested in blade treatment on this one.

[bearfacedkiller]

Very nice Dan, I just got mine today. It looks to be a tumbled finish.

[bearfacedkiller]

It was getting dark but I got a couple pics in real quick. :)

[farnorthdan]

Thanks for the pics Darby, even more excited to get home now, I think I be coming down with something, feeling kinda sick...cough, cough

[farnorthdan]

Blade is showing patina right out of the box, love the tumbled/blasted finish, sharpest M2 LW yet out of the box.

[Surfingringo]

Anyone done any sharpening yet?

[osprey]

It appears that National Knives has these in stock if anyone is looking.

[Donut]

Anyone done any sharpening yet?

I have only ran mine on the corners of my fine sharpmaker rods to make sure it will still bite.

Probably 100% because I'm a (do)nut. :)

[DougC-3]

Oh wow, thanks for the pics guys -- I may have to change my holding off awhile plans :o

[bearfacedkiller]

I reprofiled and sharpened the Mule a few times. It was no problem for me on the sharpmaker and wasn't too time consuming. It didn't seem any harder to sharpen than S110V.

[elena86]

Blade is showing patina right out of the box, love the tumbled/blasted finish, sharpest M2 LW yet out of the box.

Showing patina allready ? Bummer.Other than that, it's a nice blade.Enjoy :cool:

[Blades]

Maxamet is sounding like a stell I need. :)

[yablanowitz]

Anyone done any sharpening yet?

Yeah, lots on both the Mule and the M2. Maxamet is actually quite easy to sharpen. Of course, I'm using DMT Diamond hones, which aren't impressed by the carbide content.

[Steel_Drake]

Anyone done any sharpening yet?

I've sharpened my Mule Team in Maxamet a bunch of times already on a variety of different abrasives and haven't found it particularly much more work to sharpen than my knives in CPM-M4.

One interesting apparent property (this is based only on my subjective perceptions) is that the extremely high hardness of the MT in Maxamet means that the apex takes a very high push cutting sharpness off of comparatively low grit stones. I was easily getting it to do crossgrain pushcuts on newsprint off a DMT EF, King 1000 and SPS-II 1000, which is not what I would describe as expected behaviour, especially off a 1k waterstone!

[Surfingringo]

Anyone done any sharpening yet?

I've sharpened my Mule Team in Maxamet a bunch of times already on a variety of different abrasives and haven't found it particularly much more work to sharpen than my knives in CPM-M4.

One interesting apparent property (this is based only on my subjective perceptions) is that the extremely high hardness of the MT in Maxamet means that the apex takes a very high push cutting sharpness off of comparatively low grit stones. I was easily getting it to do crossgrain pushcuts on newsprint off a DMT EF, King 1000 and SPS-II 1000, which is not what I would describe as expected behaviour, especially off a 1k waterstone!

Thanks for the report Steel_Drake, that's good information. I like steels that are easy finish with a very sharp and very aggressive edge on lower grit stones. All steels are not equal in this regard. Some are harder to get to that level of sharpness on the same stone, some will get there but are less aggressive at the apex. I'm curious to get my hands on some Maxamet and see how it responds.

[bearfacedkiller]

[bearfacedkiller]

[jnc91]

Just got mine in from Knife Center. Wow!!! What a blade!!! Sharpens easily to a scary level with a ceramic stone and hard enough to scratch glass...