710hs

Hi,

Here are some initial review of the 710 HS.

The G10 scales and grips are very comfortable, the thumb pad is very well placed and designed. I did not feel uncomfortable sharpening and using the knife.

The fit and finish is excellent. There was no blade play, scratchs, sharp corners, etc...

The size of the knive and blade are excellent. The blade is quite a package. Alot better blade/knife size compared to gripzilla. It is only 1/4" longer frame with a 1/2" longer blade.

The axis lock is really strong, but not as smooth as griptilian. i am not used to any blade without a spyderhole.

The edge was very thin. It came shaving sharp only, not anywhere close to my Spydercos. I touched it up slightly wiht my 204 and it is kewl now.

The blade has bronze washers.

I am very happy with the 710HS.

I have not done any cutting/slicing test yet. Maybe within the next two days.

I hope i can say i am finshed buying knives. :D
 
I just asked for your impressions on the Benchmade forum before reading them here. That's awesome.

I hope I get mine soon. It would be nice to get that 'last' knife. Or to buy 8 S30V Natives and clip two to each pocket on my dungarees...
 
:D I will not be getting anymore knives within the next few months. I bougt 5 or 6 knives this month. Spending the last of my Christmas bonus. I will only buy some newer knives, only after other bladeforum.com members tested them out. ATR and Buck Mayo comes to my mind.

I can get the edge wicked sharp with about 15 mins. Steady use of fine and ultra fine made the edge very sharp. I used 5 strokes with the med. corners to make recurve of the blade bite. This give the blade the bite needed for slicing. Joe's article is very informative.
 
Hi,

Here is my first cutting tests.

I used 3 knives. All were sharpened using Spyderco 204 Sharpmaker with 30 degree settings. All three knives are rasor sharp. They can slice a paper in half, pop hair, cut rubber band test in 3 - 4 pieces.

The three knives were:

1. Griptilian
2. Delica
3. 710 HS

The test was to slice a empty Coke alluminum can. I only counted clean cuts. I duct taped the can on a table and whacked the edge of the blade to penetrate the can.


1. Griptilian took 3 - 4 slices to cleanly clear the can. The edge was not that good afterwards. Dents and scrates were present. Took course stones to recover the edge.

2. The Delica took 6 slices. I could nto use as much pressure due to smaller blade. Endura or polic would have been better. The edge was rolled. Took 1 mins to touchup afterwards.

3. The 710 took 2-3 slice. Clean cut. No damage at all.

Test 2 was simply cutting pencils in half.

All the passed easily. No damage can be seen in all 3. So unless you care cutting hard materials you cannot really tell the difference.
 
UPDATE :D

Did some cutting test and slicing tests.

I sharpened the 710HS, Delica, and Griptilian to super scary amazing dangerous sharp with the UF 204 Stones. I spent 1 hour on each knife. You can pop hairs and slice paper in the air.

Test 1. :)

Slicing (rubber grips)

I had a bunch of Beretta hard rubber grips that i needed to resize. They are hard rubber. The grips rubber gets sticky and dirty. The test was too slice really thin pieces so i can thin the grips. The Delica and 710 performed best because of the thin blade. The griptilian was very hard to use. I resized 10 grips in total.

The Delica got really dull after 3 grips. It could not slice the rubber, it was scraping the rubber. It made the edge very dull, i could rub my thumb accross the blade. It could no longer shave hairs or slice paper. The griptilian was very hard to handle, i gave up after 1 grip. The 6 remaining grips i used the 710hs. The thing that was amazing was that the sticky rubber did not effect the blade. It could cut 5 grips easily, the last one i managed resizing with scraping. The blade could not shave buit could slice paper.

Test 2 :)

Cutting (long hard strikes)

Slicing speaker wires. I work at a electronics store. So i got 3 rolls of the thinnest wires. I sharpened the blades back to super scary amazing dangerous sharp again.

The 710 and Griptilian performed alot better than the Delica due to the larger blade. I wrapped the wire in long strands consisting of 10 wires. I then rolled the strand in a tight manner.

The Delica's blade was too short to test. I need to buy a Police or Military.

The Griptilian sliced through 5 strands and the edge was gone. The copper wire really did damage to the 440C. The edge was so bad that i could not slice paper or cut an apple. It took me long time to fix it.

The 710 was amazing. It sliced through the remaining wires i had. 12 strands. The edge was still sharp enough to slice paper. I am impressed.
 
Heh i just bought a 710HS on ebay, I couldnt be happier with the thing, I'm a canuck also, shipping from southern california was
about a week or so.


an hour on the 204 eh? why did it take so long?.


now my 806D2 and 735 have some backup, they were getting scared amidst the spyderco CF police models and cuda maxx stiletto :0


and soon i'll have a nice 940D2-01 , limited edition BM940 with D2 blade and red aluminum scales.
 
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