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Hello Folks,
First, I recently required a spyderco starmate, and I absoluteley love it. It replaced my BM AFCK and Stryker in three days.
Second, I used to think Benchmade was a tad better in quality, but now I think spyderco is a lot better in the same pricerange.
But the point of this topic...Benchmade satified a whole lot of people by introducing M-2 as Folder blades, especially the people who are kinda traditional, and think that if it rusts, it is a better knife (over here, the best potatoe-knives are marked Not-rustfree, as if it were a commercial slogan).
I used the CPM 440V blade, and I know it's quit expensive steel, but for fun, I made a 52100 blade and copied the grind as good as I could. The 52100 is a roughly forged fixed knife, so it will be tougher then a folder, but it held an edge a lot better, while being easier to resharpen after some nailcutting. I didn't do this with my starmate, because I think this falls under "abuse" and I don't wanna wreck up my favourite folder. I do the brass rod test, and the edge on the 52100 blade had a ding, the starmates edge would have been chipped.
I could remove the ding by flattening the edge a few times on a smooth stainless steel plate.
In price, a 440V blade would have costed me about 15 x what a 52100 blade costs.
About the non-stainless section, 52100 has some chrome, and if you keep the blade dry (wipe down after wet use) it won't corrode.
A day under in salt water ruins the mirrorpolish, but 5 minutes on a buffer fixed that.
Now, Sal and company, I would like to ask if you can consider using a tool steel, it would help setting your reputation as working knives, especially in conservative mids, where spyderco as high-tech folders don't really come off the ground.
If you people should cast one vote for a tool steel to be used by spyderco in the future, which would you prefer? And on which existing spyderco folder?
Try to imagine a starmate or a military, even an endura in carbon steel... I would buy them all over again.
I think it would be interesting to see what you people think, and not only for me, but also for Sal.
I hope this text makes sense...I'm not a native english speaker.
greetz and thanks in advance, Bart.
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First, I recently required a spyderco starmate, and I absoluteley love it. It replaced my BM AFCK and Stryker in three days.
Second, I used to think Benchmade was a tad better in quality, but now I think spyderco is a lot better in the same pricerange.
But the point of this topic...Benchmade satified a whole lot of people by introducing M-2 as Folder blades, especially the people who are kinda traditional, and think that if it rusts, it is a better knife (over here, the best potatoe-knives are marked Not-rustfree, as if it were a commercial slogan).
I used the CPM 440V blade, and I know it's quit expensive steel, but for fun, I made a 52100 blade and copied the grind as good as I could. The 52100 is a roughly forged fixed knife, so it will be tougher then a folder, but it held an edge a lot better, while being easier to resharpen after some nailcutting. I didn't do this with my starmate, because I think this falls under "abuse" and I don't wanna wreck up my favourite folder. I do the brass rod test, and the edge on the 52100 blade had a ding, the starmates edge would have been chipped.
I could remove the ding by flattening the edge a few times on a smooth stainless steel plate.
In price, a 440V blade would have costed me about 15 x what a 52100 blade costs.
About the non-stainless section, 52100 has some chrome, and if you keep the blade dry (wipe down after wet use) it won't corrode.
A day under in salt water ruins the mirrorpolish, but 5 minutes on a buffer fixed that.
Now, Sal and company, I would like to ask if you can consider using a tool steel, it would help setting your reputation as working knives, especially in conservative mids, where spyderco as high-tech folders don't really come off the ground.
If you people should cast one vote for a tool steel to be used by spyderco in the future, which would you prefer? And on which existing spyderco folder?
Try to imagine a starmate or a military, even an endura in carbon steel... I would buy them all over again.
I think it would be interesting to see what you people think, and not only for me, but also for Sal.
I hope this text makes sense...I'm not a native english speaker.
greetz and thanks in advance, Bart.
------------------
"If the world wouldn't SUCK, we'd all fall off !"
You can E-mail me at any time....guaranteed reply !
member of the BKS
http://www.expage.com/belgianknives
