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custom vs production performance
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Video or it didn't happen.
Do you know anyone can say they have sliced 7648937 miles of cardboard with a butter knife and still can shave hair too
Ankerson
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Video or it didn't happen.
Do you know anyone can say they have sliced 7648937 miles of cardboard with a butter knife and still can shave hair too
I don't shoot 16 hour videos.. don't have the equipment.
I stopped at 6,800 ft, still slicing phone book paper.
This is the 4th knife I have cut over a measured linear mile with.... 2x CPM 10V and 2x CPM S125V.
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strategy9
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This, IMHO, is one of those "impossible", philosophical questions... the chicken or the egg?
From a specific side of your question; If two great makers, one from a solid production standpoint, another from a solid custom standpoint, both made identical knives from identical materials, with identical grinds, (assuming both have access to proper HT equipment and procedures), which would perform better?
They would likely perform identically, at least within a reasonable degree of separation for margin of error...
If they did it again, it could very well be a flipped result...
From a generic in between the lines version of the question; performance wise, which knife performs better, production or folder, (of similar design and profile/grind, but same steel), now there's the plethora of possibilities; Thornburn vs. Mtech? Or my neighbor in his garage HT'ing in his oven vs. CRK? And all the different possibilities of combinations in between, some closer then others.
From a specific side of your question; If two great makers, one from a solid production standpoint, another from a solid custom standpoint, both made identical knives from identical materials, with identical grinds, (assuming both have access to proper HT equipment and procedures), which would perform better?
They would likely perform identically, at least within a reasonable degree of separation for margin of error...
If they did it again, it could very well be a flipped result...
From a generic in between the lines version of the question; performance wise, which knife performs better, production or folder, (of similar design and profile/grind, but same steel), now there's the plethora of possibilities; Thornburn vs. Mtech? Or my neighbor in his garage HT'ing in his oven vs. CRK? And all the different possibilities of combinations in between, some closer then others.
Man that's some serious dedication. Both from you and big chris. I love his stuff but unfortunately he's in the us and I'm in Canada.. I wish I had something like that when I was a kid working in a stockroom. Only problem is I'd have 0 clue what to do with it once it was dull. I strongly dislike sharpening for very long periods of time. With that said my interest is mainly in medium alloy tool steels and stainless or semi stainless steels.
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Then get some sharpening stones / equipment DESIGNED and ENGINEERED to sharpen quick like a bunny the hardest steels .
Seriously.
Shapton
See the black on these stones ? That is the steel that came off one of the toughest steels in the super steel list. It was no problem to sharpen.
Besides look at all the pretty colors . . . collect a full set !
Even these old Nortons took care of this ZDP-189 blade which is seriously hard at around 65.
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