Edge Retention

[stabman]

Since I've started using the crap out of my part serrated CQC-12, I can say that its edge retention is somewhere around the level of the S30V on the CRK Umnumzaan.
I've used it to cut a bunch of cardboard, sawed through some 5/8" dowel with the serrated portion, and trimmed a bunch of branches ranging from 1/4" to 3/4" on a maple tree. Had to hack at the 3/4" branches; up to 1/2" or so cut through with one swipe.:thumbup: Cut some fiberglass as well.
After all that it needed the SLIGHTEST touch up, not even enough to really count as a sharpening.
So I don't understand the folks who say the steel is too soft. Are they just basing that on what others have said rather than using their knives?

 

[Hammer27]

Are they just basing that on what others have said rather than using their knives?

Probably. Its funny, on some other forum where Emerson is more popular you'll hear a lot of stories like "I thought Emerson was a joke etc etc and then I got one." Probably best to take what's said on the internet with a grain of salt in all cases.

 

[stabman]

Probably best to take what's said on the internet with a grain of salt in all cases.

Or an entire salt mine!

 

[SIFU1A]

they are all 154CM, i can remember when it was one of the new super steels, loved by all, just because its not '30V or something doesnt make it bad or soft, i have always thought EKI's held an edge very well,