Anyone else sick of Magnacut already…

Sick of Magna?

  • Fo shizzle, Magna overblown dawg

    Votes: 37 25.0%

  • Nah I luvs it

    Votes: 115 77.7%
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Somebody put a lot more work, knowledge, experience and testing into rolling it out than I'll ever know, so I'll rather just appreciate it for what it is instead of being sick of it.

It's a hell of a lot easier to criticize than it is to create.
 
Mannlicher said:
fact is that hardly anyone here could tell you what steel a knife was made of unless it was stamped on the blade.
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You sure can narrow down the possibilities if you use the knife enough.
Does it rust? Does it chip or roll? Does it dull easily? How many rope cuts can you make à la Pete? Can you sharpen it without diamond or CBN stones?
 
I'm relatively new to the super-steel wars but I've I've been carrying a knife since I was ~10 years old (I'm 53 now). I have lots of knives in many different steels.

I am definitely suspicious of armchair mettalurgists spouting their opinions all over the internet. Particularly when most of the knives I see on BF (and IG, FB, Reddit, etc.) don't have a single scratch on the clip let alone any sign of actual use. How would  they know?

But here we have actual science and an actual mettalurgist. MagnaCut is great! I have two knives in Magnacut (North Arms Skaha 2 and a Hogue Deka Wharnie) and they each get carried and used a lot. I'm impressed. It takes a fine edge. It holds an edge well. And it's not impossible to sharpen. Should you use it to make a chisel? Well, no. But for an all arounder knife steel it is very well balanced.

But yes, in ten years MagnaCut will have been replaced with some other en voque SuperSteel. Because knife companies want to sell knives.
And Knife Bros are gonna Bro.
The Circle of Knife!
 
Sick of it? I don't even have any yet!
How could I be sick of something I haven't even tried yet? :confused:

Of course, I am still not sick of S30V, so perhaps I'm not the target of this thread. :D
And my most recent knife is 1095 carbon steel...

Yep, this thread is not intended for me. ;)
 
I don’t currently own anything in Magnacut either, but if my favorite production knifemakers suddenly switched to it from M390 I’d be fine with that. The blade steel is secondary to me after build quality, aesthetic, country of origin, etc. I’m not a hard knife user. Mine are mainly used for breaking down cardboard and trimming my nails/cuticles.

I’m not sick of Magnacut. All the popular blade steels were top of their game at some point. Pretty cool we can even nail these kinds of things down, objectively. A mere hundred years ago not many people were even aware of what made some knives or axes better. A lot of it was just one or another manufacturer’s secret sauce.
 
Stringjam7 said:
Somebody put a lot more work, knowledge, experience and testing into rolling it out than I'll ever know, so I'll rather just appreciate it for what it is instead of being sick of it.

It's a hell of a lot easier to criticize than it is to create.
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^^^ This!!

As Carl Jung said, "Thinking is hard. That's why most people just judge."

And I'm guilty too of riding the bullet train to an incomplete conclusion to avoid the hard, often tedious, work involved. It's so much easier to just pop off an opinion you've pulled out of thin air, among other places, than to dig in and question, analyze, research (independently and on your own, no gaslighting accepted), verify, scrutinize, reach a conclusion, then start questioning the veracity of your own result to motivate additional & more granular searching into the matter at hand. So I'll line up with Mr Jung on his observation, based on what I've often enough noted in myself and my fellow humans. 🙄
 
Haven't posted in a while but I found this topic interesting. I did not know one could be annoyed by the commonality of a material being used in a industry.....lol. But for the sake of conversation, the one thing that I do find strange or stubborn is when a given company decides to use one type of steel and not deviate from it. Even Victorinox is offering upgraded steel but folks like Emerson use one type of steel, that will eventually leave you wanting more. But MagnaCut works and Larrin got something right ..... maybe that's what bothers some people? Maybe some want more out of it? Whatever the case may be, it is a great alternative to everything we've been using for a while. I happen to like that companies are using this version of steel over S45VN or S35 for fixed blades. Dawson makes swords out of it and I honestly cannot wait to blow my money on one. I'd trust a metalurgist to make an awesome steel and thats what we got here. The man is perfecting his craft and sharing it with the world.
Who doesn't like tough shit?
 
Is this steel new just to be new? Time will tell. I'd like to test it and see how it cuts. Is it far better than plain old carbon steel? Is it easier to sharpen? All I've seen about this steel is praise or criticism. Let's see some scientific testing.
 
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