EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

Mornin guys and gals! Got me a new little toy a couple days ago. Damasteel is really impressing me as far as keeping it's etch goes. I bought this thing as quite well used. If you look in just the perfect lighting, you'd see that it has some pretty decently gnarly scratches across the blade. Like someone was cutting some quite abrasive material. The camera doesn't pick it up, nor the scratches on the handle and fading of the anodized pivot. But this is the first time that I've seen a damascus type of steel not fade, nor show the scratches after some serious cutting. Pretty awesome stuff!
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P.S. woodysone woodysone : I don't know if you got the answers you were looking for on the S60v of your Kershaw Blur, as I'm always behind about a week lately in looking through pics on this EDC thread, but you have a very rare knife right there. In about 2007-2008 was when I was first getting seriously into the online knife community (before that I just had a small knife collection my whole life, but in isolation, and didn't really know much about them), and that was the year that I got my S60v Kershaw Blur (which had already been pretty recently discontinued). I had just got a job at a knife counter and was getting really interested, I went to a gun show and Kershaw Guy had a table there. He showed me the S60v Blur blem that he had and told me it was the hottest thing out right now. I bought it and still have it. But anyways, there are production numbers available online that show how many were made and it was extremely limited. There's only like 45-50 non-blems in existence and something like a couple hundred blems (from memory). Kershaw very quickly discontinued it because it was too much of a bear to grind/sharpen at the time. Most have a little bit of a wavy factory edge, but still good. Like someone else said, it's the same as 440V that you see on some old Spydercos, but there aren't many knives out there at all in it relatively speaking. You'd have to ask someone more knowledgeable than myself about all the characteristics of the steel. It's between the S30v and S90v lineup of the S series of the Crucible's lineup, but that doesn't really tell you much at all about it's characteristics. I know there are steel charts of it out there though. I remember one of the big-league knife makers with great steel knowledge was talking about bringing it back with a new heat treat recipe, it may have been Big Brown Bear, but I might be remembering wrong. Sweet knife!
 
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