Cutting properties of Talonite.

[kutch133]

Can anybody explain how talonite cuts, feels, etc. in relation to steel blades. Does it "feel sharp" in comparison to a well sharpened steel. Does it excel at shaving hair, cutting rope, etc. What does it specifically do best. I'd like to know more before I purchase anything with it.

 

[copfish]

I have several Talonite blades. I carry a medium Tom Mayo TNT as an EDC. I also have a Mayo small fixed version of the TNT that I carry as a neck knife. I think Mr. Mayo must have screwed up the grind on my TNTs, as they cut both on the push and draw strokes. I have read that Talonite does not cut well on a push stroke. As for the edge holding, my Talonite blades all seem to lose their "hair-popping" edge faster than BG-42, but then have a useful edge life for a long time. I have not got to the point where Talonite stops cutting and starts dragging. I always touch up the edge to the hair popping with a few strokes on a Spyderco 204. I skinned a 350 pound elk with a TNT last year and it still sliced up cardboard to line my truck bed and rope to tie her down with no dragging. FWIW, I like Talonite.

 

[narruc1]

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[tom mayo]

This topic has been discussed a lot here, and so you might try the search engine for more info....the bottom line is that it works, very well in fact, and has a soft matrix with very tough carbides in it that wear and wear and wear. The soft matrix provides a small problem because if you sharpen it thin the stuff wants to bend over. A compromise edge results in a blade that goes and goes and goes.. think I said that already. My personal TNT that I just traded off to Mikey was used daily for well over a year and only shapened 4 times (I did touch it up on my medium felt wheel regularly-but only went to a belt to sharpen it 4 times in over one year!!)

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[tomwalz]

I knew that Talonite has a cousin that works extremely well in sawmills. However when I got my Tom Mayo folder it was so pretty I couldn't bring myself to use it. I carried it around wrapped up to show people. At the knife show in Eugene, Will Fennel of Camillus talked me into actually using it. He reminded me that it was Talonite with Titanium and there was nothing I could do with it that Mayo couldn't fix in a couple minutes.

I used it that night to cut a pretty good steak at dinner. (A really good group at dinner, lots of jokes about Mayo's knife cutting a restaurant steak.) Anyway the knife has been my everyday knife ever since. I used it as a box knife yesterday, I use it to open mail, I whittle with it and I use it for cooking. It hits an occasional staple in a box and still cuts. It loses its razor edge rapidly but it still cuts very well. We still don't know just quite how this works except that it only loses the "wire edge" and it does have a much higher lubricity than steel.

The only problem is that it is so beautiful that conversation stops when I bring it out. People want to see it and hold it. If they try cutting with it, it is hard to get it back.

We developed Talonite and we sell it so we are also prejudiced however a lot of people who use Talonite are highly prejudiced in favor of it.

You could buy A Talonite knife from Camillus or you could enter our "New Guy From France Knife Contest and maybe win one.

Tom

 

[nifrand]

It just keeps on a cuttin'

 

[Paul Work]

Hey Mayo! That's a nice watch.

Paul

 

[BlackRazor]

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