ApexUltra: Ultimate Kitchen Knife or Ultimate PITA?

ApexUltra is amazing. I am probably the only user so far who makes outdoor and EDC/SD blades out of it. For me the 5mm .200 is just optimal. The grinding is definiately more challanging than 52100, but nowhere near high alloy high hardness steels. Water cooled grinding is highly recommended.

It takes a superb edge, and holds it for a very very long time. Sharpening is easy, and to be honest, i am very happy with the toughness as well especially with differential tempering of the handle area.

I just have another shipment of 120 pounds arrived to me yesterday. Cant wait to start pushing new models out of it.
 
Seems like Apex is very good for bush knives. I'll give it a try and push for high hardness.
 
Zozo*HC* said:
ApexUltra is amazing. I am probably the only user so far who makes outdoor and EDC/SD blades out of it. For me the 5mm .200 is just optimal. The grinding is definiately more challanging than 52100, but nowhere near high alloy high hardness steels. Water cooled grinding is highly recommended.

It takes a superb edge, and holds it for a very very long time. Sharpening is easy, and to be honest, i am very happy with the toughness as well especially with differential tempering of the handle area.

I just have another shipment of 120 pounds arrived to me yesterday. Cant wait to start pushing new models out of it.
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What hardness do you run it at? I have 2 bushcraft blades I’ll be doing in it but just haven’t gotten around to working on them.
 
Zozo*HC* said:
ApexUltra is amazing. I am probably the only user so far who makes outdoor and EDC/SD blades out of it. For me the 5mm .200 is just optimal. The grinding is definiately more challanging than 52100, but nowhere near high alloy high hardness steels. Water cooled grinding is highly recommended.

It takes a superb edge, and holds it for a very very long time. Sharpening is easy, and to be honest, i am very happy with the toughness as well especially with differential tempering of the handle area.

I just have another shipment of 120 pounds arrived to me yesterday. Cant wait to start pushing new models out of it.
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Do you coat them? How does it stain due to higher hardness?
 
Thescrawnylumberjack said:
What hardness do you run it at? I have 2 bushcraft blades I’ll be doing in it but just haven’t gotten around to working on them.
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I run them 62-62 for larger, and 63-64 for smaller blades. Works fine so far. As i mentioned handles are differentially tempered.


JoeBusic said:
Do you coat them? How does it stain due to higher hardness?
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Run Cerakote on all of them. It stains like all carbon steel, however i feel it is somewhat better than 52100. Marginal difference though.
 
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