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Benchmade is offering the Saddle Mountain Skinner in S90V and it comes with a 14 dps edge. It’s a big knife obviously designed for dressing large game which entails scraping on bone, etc which makes it intended to be a hard use knife. With S30V and S35VN I’ve never been able to go past 17 dps without the edge rolling and sometimes chipping. I’ve also seen super hard steels whose makers said could dress multiple animals and still be shaving sharp but when used to part out a moose chipped badly. So my question To anyone familiar with S90V is: Do you think the 14 dps will take the abuse or is it just a great slicer that needs to be treated delicately or re-honed to a steeper angle
 
MarkN86 said:
Not too familiar with S90V, but have you tried a microbevel or convex edge?
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Don’t even have one yet. Was just curious. I might put it to the test with original factory edge and see how it goes. If I do, I’ll post Results here in a month or two.
 
I have a S90V native 5 with a roughly 15degree...it does fine. The tip did break though, but that's mostly my fault.

For reference, my S30V (which is supposedly tougher than S90V) chips once in awhile on my 943.

I've never seen my S90V or S110V roll before...
 
That’s mighty thin , I personally like 17*-20* edge, toothy edge blade

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“”Very good, highly stain and wear resistant CPM steel from Crucible. Base for this alloy was AISI 420 steel with added Vanadium, really large amount though. I've tried it with high polished, 100k edges and with coarse edges as well, ended up choosing coarse edge, lasts a lot longer, especially oh highly abrasive mediums.
 
I have the saddle mountain skinner and it is rad. I have not dressed any game with it yet but I love how it performs like a kitchen knife with the 14 DPS. If you look at the steel the same way you look at a tool, you will be fine. Know the limitations and work within them. If you put a lot of lateral force on the edge on bones, you may have problems. You may want to have two knives if you want to avoid all potential micro chip issues.
 
Fir Na Tine said:
I have the saddle mountain skinner and it is rad. I have not dressed any game with it yet but I love how it performs like a kitchen knife with the 14 DPS. If you look at the steel the same way you look at a tool, you will be fine. Know the limitations and work within them. If you put a lot of lateral force on the edge on bones, you may have problems. You may want to have two knives if you want to avoid all potential micro chip issues.
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I have no doubt it would be a fine slicer. As far as limitations go for a large hunting knife, there shouldn’t be any short of not chopping rocks with it. I might be talking out my ass here but the benchmade videos show guys holding it with finger tips slicing hide and meat, not having a full fisted grip prying the head loose from the spine or cutting lower legs off. Some would call that abuse but for us it’s a fact of life unless you want to pack an axe or sawsall with you everywhere you hike.
 
bedrock said:
Don’t even have one yet. Was just curious. I might put it to the test with original factory edge and see how it goes. If I do, I’ll post Results here in a month or two.
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Hunts on-
FWIW, buddy broke down a cow/steer with a stock Leatherman TTi Charge s30v of all things. He reported it was still sharp when he was done. Look on his face told the story, incredulous.
I would not consider Benchmade's s90v delicate, but would take the new "14 degree" edge to thicker angle for first hunt for several reasons. Their Altitude has a 0.09 inch blade. Grand daughters offline, but when she gets back I'll ask her how her s30v Hidden Canyon is holding up.
 
The S30V steel blades in those older Leatherman TTi Charge models had a very good heat treatment, imo comparable to that of Buck Knives.
Mine has a permanent place in my daypack.
 
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