13C26 Razor Blade Steel -- a Kershaw Junkyard Dog II Review

Does anyone have some EKA folders to test alongside? The stock is a lot thinner on most of them, but hey, who doesn't have a belt sander?
 
hardheart said:
Does anyone have some EKA folders to test alongside? The stock is a lot thinner on most of them, but hey, who doesn't have a belt sander?
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Interesting you should bring this up ... I have a small EKA folder, and after some initial problems obtaining a quality edge it has performed very well: in an earlier run of tests on cardboard it is just slightly behind what I've seen with Kershaw's 13C26.

I don't have a belt sander. :) But if you set the primary edges and microbevels at the same angles, differences in blade profile/thickness won't effect edge retention the way I'm testing it anyway.
 
I have one EKA 12C27 folder with a very thin blade. Its this one here.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=63991&d=1166112208

I had the same trouble getting a decent edge that I like on it. Finally did but I have to maintain it a lot more often than my 13C26 blades. I sliced turkey off the bone with this EKA knife once and cut into the bone and dented the blade back pretty good I did manage to later straighten it out. Its a good little knife for the money. I had a 12C27 folder from Thinus Herbst a while back that was thicker than this EKA and kept a better edge more on par with what I've experienced with the Kershaw knives. I don't know what the RC was on that knife but it seemed to be a good edge keeper. Without getting into the minute differences from one to the other the 12C27 and 13C26 seem pretty close to me from a user standpoint but I've used the latter more at this point.

STR
 
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