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This has probably been mentioned here before with all the knife addicts running around in the forum; but this is my first experience with this steel, and I'm excited about it. If you have read about how bad ass this steel is, well sorry, I didn't know.
I just got this knife a few days ago, it was definitely brand new so I did an anatomy of it and posted it here; today I had to dispose of two very large cardboard boxes that contained a foldable bed (the JayBee kind if you know what I mean), I forgot to take pictures of them, but I used the Southard to cut them in small pieces.
I think I ended with about 100 pieces of cardboard. I didn't need to cut them in so many pieces but heck, I though, let's see how this steel performs and how the edge is retained afterwards.
Dang! This blade cuts like nothing else I've used before; CTS-XHP is very similar though, for what I have seen, but the edge is wicked sharp even after I cut all that cardboard. This is of course a subjective thing, but I'm impressed.
In my experience, cutting those thin curly slices of paper in the pic, can only be done with a well sharpened blade; the Southard had no issues doing it; I don't plan on touching it up with the Sharpmaker yet. I don't think it needs it. like it a lot
I just got this knife a few days ago, it was definitely brand new so I did an anatomy of it and posted it here; today I had to dispose of two very large cardboard boxes that contained a foldable bed (the JayBee kind if you know what I mean), I forgot to take pictures of them, but I used the Southard to cut them in small pieces.
I think I ended with about 100 pieces of cardboard. I didn't need to cut them in so many pieces but heck, I though, let's see how this steel performs and how the edge is retained afterwards.
Dang! This blade cuts like nothing else I've used before; CTS-XHP is very similar though, for what I have seen, but the edge is wicked sharp even after I cut all that cardboard. This is of course a subjective thing, but I'm impressed.
In my experience, cutting those thin curly slices of paper in the pic, can only be done with a well sharpened blade; the Southard had no issues doing it; I don't plan on touching it up with the Sharpmaker yet. I don't think it needs it. like it a lot