cruwear military delayed

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I saw on one of the websites that was offering preorders that they changed their estimated arrival date of "june" to "fall". This could be a 3 or 4 or 5 month delay. Another website still has them listed as "may". In my timezone "may" ends in 2 minutes so they aren't going to make that.
 
I seen that as well. :mad:

I am really excited about this one so I guess I'll just wait longer..lol
 
Yep, Waiting for this knife is worth it for me. It isn't the easiest steel to work and care must be taken in all phases of the process. They are doing it to make us "AFI's"/Steel Junkies/Knife Knuts happy, not because they found an easy, get rich quick scheme. Most of the custom makers I've approached have declined to make a folder in this steel. I did get a couple of fixed blades years back, but I'm not sure I could I could find one now.

For me, it represents the first true "supersteel" sprint run and in it's vascowear form was the only production knife to ever use it. The old days of Gerber when 440C was the base steel ( as well as Buck at first before changing), "Vascowear", named "V" steel was available in the Sportsman 2 only, from maybe 81 to 86? Hopefully some Gerber expert could fix any errors there. Not many were made. They also used M2 at around rc 60-61, plating it with chrome for corrosion resistance though "V" steel never received that. There was 1 folder made with M2 by Gerber, a folding hunter.

Next up after that a few years later Spyderco really got the ball rolling with 440V, than S30V, true supersteels when introduced.

Certainly nostalgic, but don't overlook it's performance. Cruwear is a true upgrade for D2 in every way except corrosion resistance. It inspired 3V, as well as more direct powder steel versions like PD1, and Z wear. I still prefer the ingot version as done by Spyderco. It's a beast, and will surprise many here with it's performance, keeping up with S30V, Elmax, etc. in wear resistance and is certainly much tougher. It does non polished, ripping edges very nicely. :)

So, if Spyderco needs to be late? All I can say is "No problem, Thanks for making them". No one else will.

Joe
 
I was at spyderco's heat treater picking up my own blades yesterday, and I saw probably 2k mililtary blades ready for heat treat. I got super pumped and asked what material they were. And was dissapointed to hear s30v :( also saw thousands of manix 2 stop pin/spring guides and thousands of military liners. I was really wishing he would have said cruwear. But oh well, worth the wait.
 
If I can wait over a year for the green Para 2 sprint, I can wait a little longer for the cruwear Military.
 
The Mastiff said:
Yep, Waiting for this knife is worth it for me. It isn't the easiest steel to work and care must be taken in all phases of the process. They are doing it to make us "AFI's"/Steel Junkies/Knife Knuts happy, not because they found an easy, get rich quick scheme. Most of the custom makers I've approached have declined to make a folder in this steel. I did get a couple of fixed blades years back, but I'm not sure I could I could find one now.

For me, it represents the first true "supersteel" sprint run and in it's vascowear form was the only production knife to ever use it. The old days of Gerber when 440C was the base steel ( as well as Buck at first before changing), "Vascowear", named "V" steel was available in the Sportsman 2 only, from maybe 81 to 86? Hopefully some Gerber expert could fix any errors there. Not many were made. They also used M2 at around rc 60-61, plating it with chrome for corrosion resistance though "V" steel never received that. There was 1 folder made with M2 by Gerber, a folding hunter.

Next up after that a few years later Spyderco really got the ball rolling with 440V, than S30V, true supersteels when introduced.

Certainly nostalgic, but don't overlook it's performance. Cruwear is a true upgrade for D2 in every way except corrosion resistance. It inspired 3V, as well as more direct powder steel versions like PD1, and Z wear. I still prefer the ingot version as done by Spyderco. It's a beast, and will surprise many here with it's performance, keeping up with S30V, Elmax, etc. in wear resistance and is certainly much tougher. It does non polished, ripping edges very nicely. :)

So, if Spyderco needs to be late? All I can say is "No problem, Thanks for making them". No one else will.

Joe
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Yep, can't wait to get my hands on one, I did order one. :D
 
Yep, can't wait to get my hands on one, I did order one
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Jim, I'll pay for the rope if you want to test it. In fact you can borrow my mule at rc 62 any time you want it. Any mule in fact. I have all of them

Joe
 
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