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Alberta Ed

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Has Spyderco ever considered offering blades in simple, easy-to-sharpen 12C27? Asking because I recently acquired a Manly WASP in 12C27 (see Reviews) and am highly impressed with it. At HRC 60 it holds a wonderful edge.
 
Alberta Ed said:
Has Spyderco ever considered offering blades in simple, easy-to-sharpen 12C27? Asking because I recently acquired a Manly WASP in 12C27 (see Reviews) and am highly impressed with it. At HRC 60 it holds a wonderful edge.
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Manly offers knives much thinner behind the edge and a really good ht using cryo... I don't think you'll get the same from other mass production manufacturers. But it would be nice regardless if spyderco offered the steel due to ease of sharpening.

Iirc they have a grasshopper in 12c27 if you wanted one.
 
Nope. There have been requests for aeb-l which is the same as 13c26 and the answer has been no.

Do you find BD1, VG10 or 8CR13MOV hard to sharpen? Those seem to be as low as Spyderco is willing to go on wear resistance for the most part.
 
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Interesting! Those little guys used to all be 3Cr but it does appear as though the Grasshopper was switched to 12c27. I guess I missed that.
 
I have been highly impressed with CTS XHP.
Easier to sharpen than BD1 or VG10 (YMMV) and yet outstanding edge retention (I have no idea how it accomplishes this magic trick). It has shown me that not everything has to be as hard to sharpen as HAP40 in order to hold an edge.
 
Gene K said:
I have been highly impressed with CTS XHP.
Easier to sharpen than BD1 or VG10 (YMMV) and yet outstanding edge retention (I have no idea how it accomplishes this magic trick). It has shown me that not everything has to be as hard to sharpen as HAP40 in order to hold an edge.
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I like CTS-XHP, too; seems very fine grained and hones easily on diamonds (CS Lawman/Recon 1).
 
bearfacedkiller said:
Nope. There have been requests for aeb-l which is the same as 13c26 and the answer has been no.

Do you find BD1, VG10 or 8CR13MOV hard to sharpen? Those seem to be as low as Spyderco is willing to go on wear resistance for the most part.
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No experience with BD1 or 8CR13MOV; VG-10 is a great steel (F1) fairly large grained I think, similar to D2 in that respect. Takes a bit of effort to get the final burr off but the finished edge has a good bite.
 
I have just been informed HAP40 is easy to sharpen. I wonder why people have such different experiences?
 
Properly heat treated 8cr13mov makes a pretty good well rounded blade in my opinion. It's worth trying, you may end up liking it. They have quite a selection in their Byrd line, I would recommend picking one up to give it a try.
 
Sal posted an update on the brown AEB-L Urban yesterday:

"I have a production sample.

sal"
 
I've owned two user knives over the years that had Sandvik ( Swedish) blade steel. I can't remember if any of them had this particular Sandvik steel or not. But I certainly can't complain about the Swedish steels I've used in the past. An old machinist I used to work with years ago bragged on a few occasions how much he liked many of the Swedish made steels for different reasons. I've wondered if Sandvik has ever made a SuperSteel similar to the ones that CPM and Carpenter has blessed us with in blade steels?

And I've for years thought that the Frost Mora models were great for the modest price tag they have put on most of their user knives. I still consider them and Victorinox to be the best tight budget buys for cutlery on the entire market. I wonder how this particular blade steel compares to VG-10? It has amazed me as to how VG-10 has maintained it's popularity as long as it has.
 
Why would Spyderco want to go to what is basically 440A class steel? I know this steel can be run pretty hard, and it is not a bad steel. However, there are some that may be more appropriate that they are starting to use.
 
DocT said:
Why would Spyderco want to go to what is basically 440A class steel? I know this steel can be run pretty hard, and it is not a bad steel. However, there are some that may be more appropriate that they are starting to use.
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