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Oh yeah, I've seen that picture. It's a Marbles machete.
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Oh great, drag my name into it! :grumpy: 
I've thought about making a couple tongue-in-cheek videos like that but have so far decided against it, because it's real easy to come off as a moron, and you never know who's going to take it way too seriously.
Also as a maker, you have to be careful about anything resembling testing. If you don't beat 'em hard enough, people will call you out for making weak knives/not being confident in them... if you beat them too hard and brag up their toughness, you're almost guaranteed to have someone go after one with a post vice and a 3-foot cheater pipe, break it and demand a free knife
For bigger companies, that's an affordable risk... for a tiny guy like me, coughing up a free knife pretty much screws up my whole month financially.
So mainly I do my own testing in private, and then let other people do the "public" dirty work for me.
I've thought about making a couple tongue-in-cheek videos like that but have so far decided against it, because it's real easy to come off as a moron, and you never know who's going to take it way too seriously.
Also as a maker, you have to be careful about anything resembling testing. If you don't beat 'em hard enough, people will call you out for making weak knives/not being confident in them... if you beat them too hard and brag up their toughness, you're almost guaranteed to have someone go after one with a post vice and a 3-foot cheater pipe, break it and demand a free knife
For bigger companies, that's an affordable risk... for a tiny guy like me, coughing up a free knife pretty much screws up my whole month financially.So mainly I do my own testing in private, and then let other people do the "public" dirty work for me.
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Obviously its a Smatchet
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And if you like A2, you'll love CPM-3VEven better toughness and edge-holding, finer grain, better corrosion resistance, with wear-resistance like D2.
The shine has kind of worn off 3V as far as being the "latest-greatest super steel", simply because so many respected makers and small manu's are using it... but there's a very good reason they're using it.
Funny you should mention that, I was reading up on 3V just before that post. due to my super-small-batchness, the 1000F tempering requirement would slow me down even more, but if I decide to send blades out? Hmmm.....
and btw, if you value 'easy to sharpen', A2 ain't your steel. It requires good stones, technique, and a bit of patience. but boy, does it pay off!
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Yup, 3V is my huckleberry these days, but then, most of my stuff is at least 2 feet OAL. I've got 3 36" OAL blades in the next batch, which included a couple blades for WW. Got the rest of the steel inside for sketching designs upon...
That being said, I'm interested to see how 4V is going to pan out. As soon as I'm sure that Peters can handle it as well as they handle 3V, and can source some, I'll be all over that.
That being said, I'm interested to see how 4V is going to pan out. As soon as I'm sure that Peters can handle it as well as they handle 3V, and can source some, I'll be all over that.
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I used to work in a bike shop called "Tony's Cyclery"....people would call up and ask if their bike was done - no name given, no description, NO REPAIR TAG number - after the first couple, we just started telling them "no....why don't you call back in a day or so". Funnier still, there was a TV place a couple 100 feet down the road, also named "Tony's Radio & TV" and people would call the bike shop and ask (without giving their name!) if their TV was ready! Whoever answered those calls used to hold the phone up and point; we would start banging our tools on the workbenches and making all sorts of loud noises and then they'd tell the person "we're still working on it, call back in a couple of hours".....I really wish I could have seen their reaction.
I really don't understand how someone expects you to figure this stuff out if they give you such a spare amount of info.
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One word... Peters'.
Agreed! If one values "easy to sharpen" (and that's a perfectly valid characteristic to focus on, especially for a combat/survival knife) I whole-heartedly and strongly recommend O1, 1095CV and 52100. All three are plenty tough for any sane person, and easy to get a very sharp, aggressive edge on, even with nothing more than an old-school soft Arkansas or "India" stone. (See also, Jim Crowell's and Jerry Fisk's videos and posts on this topic)
There are many reasons why so many people love Becker knives, and alloy selection/HT is a big part of it. (Namely, very good toughness, and ease of getting their knives nice and sharp). I'm thoroughly convinced that Ethan and the folks at Ka-Bar know exactly what they're doing, and why. :thumbup:
I do happen to sincerely like Ethan as a human being; he's an absolute hoot to hang out with, and he's been extremely kind and helpful to me as a no-name nitwit trying to find his way in the knife biz... there's no "business" reason for him to do that, BTW... I'm barely a blip on the radar in his world. But if his knives sucked, I wouldn't advise people to buy them.
Anyway... personally, I do not highly value "easy-to-sharpen". As I've said many times before, the fun and thrill of sharpening/honing wore off for me a long, long time ago. I prefer to do it as seldom as possible.
Thin grinds cut pretty well even when they get dull, and I don't mind a knife that loses it's "tree-topping" sharpness fairly quickly, but retains a "working edge" for a long, long time with no attention at all. Nor do I mind keeping some diamonds or ceramics in my pocket/BoB etc.
As a cantankerous independent maker, I have and enjoy the freedom to bring my knives - even the heavy-duty ones - down to much thinner edges than most factories would dare... (partly by using more costly/wear-resistant/tougher steels, but also partly because my prices tend to weed out the guys who want to bash a perfectly good knife through a boulder just to see what happens) and that helps a great deal with sharpening "problems" as well. A nice thin edge is always easier to sharpen than a thick one, regardless of steel selection.
That doesn't make a THK "better" or "worse" than a Becker... just different
Lemme put it this way... I can make, and do make any goshdarn knife I want for myself... I don't have to concern myself with anything other than pure performance when it comes to my personal knives. I'm spoiled that way.
Not to put myself on a pedestal by any means, but let's think about that for a moment... and then also consider that if I was lost in the boonies with only my BK-11 and/or BK-5, I would be very confident in them, and extremely happy to have them.
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Crucible's 4V pdf datasheet is all mis-formatted, at least on my linux machine. the rest come through just fine. :grumpy:
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"Remember its B... K... AND T... so its a knife AND a tool, its not just a knife its also a tool..." .... I think I may see another tool there too!
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You mean you dont just know?! You should just know what knife he is talking about down to the spec.
On a side note this reminds me of threads such as ---"i nEed ma a sURvile knivez for out dours. iT mus be gerd an shrap... recomind mea I Survile knive."Usually when I call a place to ask about something like that I find if I go "Yeah my name's such-and-such and I had the thingamajig and I was wondering if it was ready." I'll usually get asked to repeat everything I just said at least once. So anymore I just tell them that I'm calling to check on whatever it is and wait for them to get ready and to be asked for my info. I would imagine a lot of people do the same thing but the way they word it makes them sound like a ditz. Or they're just having a brain fart.
When I worked in a quick lube I had several regulars that would expect me to remember their full name off the top of my head. We had a standard greeting, ask what they'd like and if they've ever had the car in before. I was careful to word it just like that "Have you ever had THIS CAR in before?" Not something they might mistake for "have YOU been here before?" Still more often than not we'd punch in the plate number into the computer and nothing would come up. I'd go and ask if they changed their plates or something (we were near the state line so it wasn't uncommon) and I'd usually get "Oh no I just bought that car, first time I ever brought it in. But I already have an account here." Then I would try to explain that our system doesn't have accounts, the records in the computer go by individual cars and we punch in the plate #, in a vain attempt to avoid this situation in the future. They look me straight in the eye annoyed and butthurt and tell me that I should remember them since they come in all the time. Never mind they have no idea what my name is, that they're one of 30 people that day, or that "all the time" actually means 2 or three times a year.
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One word... Peters'.
Agreed! If one values "easy to sharpen" (and that's a perfectly valid characteristic to focus on, especially for a combat/survival knife) I whole-heartedly and strongly recommend O1, 1095CV and 52100. All three are plenty tough for any sane person, and easy to get a very sharp, aggressive edge on, even with nothing more than an old-school soft Arkansas or "India" stone. (See also, Jim Crowell's and Jerry Fisk's videos and posts on this topic)
There are many reasons why so many people love Becker knives, and alloy selection/HT is a big part of it. (Namely, very good toughness, and ease of getting their knives nice and sharp). I'm thoroughly convinced that Ethan and the folks at Ka-Bar know exactly what they're doing, and why. :thumbup:
I do happen to sincerely like Ethan as a human being; he's an absolute hoot to hang out with, and he's been extremely kind and helpful to me as a no-name nitwit trying to find his way in the knife biz... there's no "business" reason for him to do that, BTW... I'm barely a blip on the radar in his world. But if his knives sucked, I wouldn't advise people to buy them.
Anyway... personally, I do not highly value "easy-to-sharpen". As I've said many times before, the fun and thrill of sharpening/honing wore off for me a long, long time ago. I prefer to do it as seldom as possible.
Thin grinds cut pretty well even when they get dull, and I don't mind a knife that loses it's "tree-topping" sharpness fairly quickly, but retains a "working edge" for a long, long time with no attention at all. Nor do I mind keeping some diamonds or ceramics in my pocket/BoB etc.
As a cantankerous independent maker, I have and enjoy the freedom to bring my knives - even the heavy-duty ones - down to much thinner edges than most factories would dare... (partly by using more costly/wear-resistant/tougher steels, but also partly because my prices tend to weed out the guys who want to bash a perfectly good knife through a boulder just to see what happens) and that helps a great deal with sharpening "problems" as well. A nice thin edge is always easier to sharpen than a thick one, regardless of steel selection.
That doesn't make a THK "better" or "worse" than a Becker... just different
Lemme put it this way... I can make, and do make any goshdarn knife I want for myself... I don't have to concern myself with anything other than pure performance when it comes to my personal knives. I'm spoiled that way.
Not to put myself on a pedestal by any means, but let's think about that for a moment... and then also consider that if I was lost in the boonies with only my BK-11 and/or BK-5, I would be very confident in them, and extremely happy to have them.
How did I miss this post? Very informative and well put.
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A2 with a full height convex is not hard to sharpen at all and very easy to maintain. Makes one of the best knives you can carry.
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