Apogee Culinary Designs new Maxemet Kitchen Knife

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I own a set of Ken Onion knives. These knives are branded as Stratus knives which eventually became Apogee. Apogee usually uses CTSBD1-N steel. I have found these knives to be the best kitchen knives I've owned and live up to the expectation of combining German toughness with Japanese performance. I saw on instagram this morning they are releasing their Fusion knife (Designed by Ken Onion) in Maxemet with a 73 Rockwell!

Here is the prototype:

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Kitchen knives get used so often and on such a variety of foods and surfaces that dulling is certainly more often than say a sparingly used edc knife.

73 hrc doesn't seem like a good hardness for the application, but maybe it's thinned out enough that very little steel needs to be removed to bring back a sharp edge.

Even still, honing will be tough. I imagine diamonds would be the only real hone for it, but if diamonds are needed then it isn't actually "honing" I believe. Although perhaps ceramic could do it... hard to tell.

Curious to get more info, though.

Maybe my terminology is off, I understood honing to be what occurs between sharpenings. Such as realignment of the edge like steeling.
 
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GermanyChris said:
That'd be good because it could probably scrape the diamonds off. :p
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In all seriousness I get the apprehension. On one hand it's exciting to see a knife like this on the other how important is it to have that type of retention and when it's lost how hard is it to get back?

Spyderco has had success with folders in Maxemet. I'm curious what their HRC is and how people are sharpening them?
 
bluemetalchurch said:
In all seriousness I get the apprehension. On one hand it's exciting to see a knife like this on the other how important is it to have that type of retention and when it's lost how hard is it to get back?

Spyderco has had success with folders in Maxemet. I'm curious what their HRC is and how people are sharpening them?
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IIRC Spyderco is running Maxamet a bit soft just like they run their 110v. I honestly like the knife (with a different handle) but that is some seriously wear resistant steel at Spydercos rockwell at ~73 it's going to be interesting. It's likely not going to need sharpened all that often so the idea that they intend for you to send it off to a pro isn't that unreasonable.

In the end it'll be a cool knife and we'll figure out away to get it sharp again
 
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