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...and Ka-Bar. Thank you for using this magical 1095CV in your knives. I'm not sure if you use magic forest pixie dust, or have some other secret up your sleeve, but count me thoroughly impressed. I have other steels, carbon, "super", etc.
Whatever you're doing with this steel, I'm glad you are, and please keep doing so. I understand others have a desire for different, more exotic, or "tougher" steels in a Becker, but I am not among them. If you ever decide to change up the steel, please keep 1095CV as an option.
I only have two Beckers at this point, and one of them only a short time, but it seems to me that this is a great formula for a user steel. It's tough enough to use for woods work, animal processing, or whatever a normal (abnormal?) guy might use it for. Yet it's easy to work with, and can be taken to scary-sharp levels with the simplest of sharpening tools.
I don't have a $500 sharpening system, and I don't want a $500 sharpening system. I have simple stones and a Sharpmaker that's older than my kids. My 14 arrived with a less than impressive finished edge, but great bevels. I'm not mentioning this as a complaint - I don't care at all. It seems that these knives end up in the hands of people who like knives, use knives, and therefore should be able to sharpen them as they see fit. I'm just glad that steel this useful is able to be taken to that user-preference finish without expensive tools, buckets of sweat, hours of time, and a resulting psychological condition.
I took my 14's edge from "shrug" to "look at it too long and your eyes get cut" in 15 minutes today. I'm sure someone who uses a microscope on their edges, and a laser to measure angles, would shudder at my work. I'm equally sure this knive is sharp, my arm hair falls off when the blade threatens to touch it, and I know from my 16 that it will stay this way long enough, and require very little time to maintain.
I used nothing more than a portable Smith's diamond hone, and my Sharpmaker that was around right before Noah's flood.
Again, thanks for this magical steel, and I hope to keep seeing it in the lineup for a long time.
Whatever you're doing with this steel, I'm glad you are, and please keep doing so. I understand others have a desire for different, more exotic, or "tougher" steels in a Becker, but I am not among them. If you ever decide to change up the steel, please keep 1095CV as an option.
I only have two Beckers at this point, and one of them only a short time, but it seems to me that this is a great formula for a user steel. It's tough enough to use for woods work, animal processing, or whatever a normal (abnormal?) guy might use it for. Yet it's easy to work with, and can be taken to scary-sharp levels with the simplest of sharpening tools.
I don't have a $500 sharpening system, and I don't want a $500 sharpening system. I have simple stones and a Sharpmaker that's older than my kids. My 14 arrived with a less than impressive finished edge, but great bevels. I'm not mentioning this as a complaint - I don't care at all. It seems that these knives end up in the hands of people who like knives, use knives, and therefore should be able to sharpen them as they see fit. I'm just glad that steel this useful is able to be taken to that user-preference finish without expensive tools, buckets of sweat, hours of time, and a resulting psychological condition.
I took my 14's edge from "shrug" to "look at it too long and your eyes get cut" in 15 minutes today. I'm sure someone who uses a microscope on their edges, and a laser to measure angles, would shudder at my work. I'm equally sure this knive is sharp, my arm hair falls off when the blade threatens to touch it, and I know from my 16 that it will stay this way long enough, and require very little time to maintain.
I used nothing more than a portable Smith's diamond hone, and my Sharpmaker that was around right before Noah's flood.
Again, thanks for this magical steel, and I hope to keep seeing it in the lineup for a long time.
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