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Folder Steel

cpirtle said:
As a fellow fanatic and owner of one of Mark's D3V folders, I will say that if the first CPK released is not D3V it will be an extreme miscarriage of justice.

Yeah there are other meritorious steel choices and future flavors are certainly welcome, especially small batch semi-exotics, but a CPK folder with no D3V is like watching 1970's Dolly Parton on TV for her music.
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I tend to make what I personally would want myself. I need a new folder and I want D3V. It's going to be D3V. It is my personal opinion that it is the most straightforward no-nonsense well-rounded high performance steel that I can use and abuse and not worry about and it holds an edge in my personal use better than anything else that I have tried. Or I would be using something else. Obviously there are other steels that are out there that are better for other applications or we would be racing with it, but for how I use a knife, it's the best for me personally. So yeah, it's going to be D3V. And it's moving up the priority list because I lost my Shiro. I've lost it a bunch of times. But this is the first time it's actually stayed lost. It may have finally escaped to freedom. (I'm hard on knives)
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I tend to make what I personally would want myself. I need a new folder and I want D3V. It's going to be D3V. It is my personal opinion that it is the most straightforward no-nonsense well-rounded high performance steel that I can use and abuse and not worry about and it holds an edge in my personal use better than anything else that I have tried. Or I would be using something else. Obviously there are other steels that are out there that are better for other applications or we would be racing with it, but for how I use a knife, it's the best for me personally. So yeah, it's going to be D3V. And it's moving up the priority list because I lost my Shiro. I've lost it a bunch of times. But this is the first time it's actually stayed lost. It may have finally escaped to freedom. (I'm hard on knives)
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I prefer simple steels that are easy to sharpen (and most importantly - reprofile). My thinned out convex edges seems to stay sharper way longer than v edges and they can strop back to keen for a long time. Definitely an edge geometry guy over whatever the steel of the day is.

14c28n is a favorite. I find D2 difficult to deburr.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I tend to make what I personally would want myself. I need a new folder and I want D3V. It's going to be D3V. It is my personal opinion that it is the most straightforward no-nonsense well-rounded high performance steel that I can use and abuse and not worry about and it holds an edge in my personal use better than anything else that I have tried. Or I would be using something else. Obviously there are other steels that are out there that are better for other applications or we would be racing with it, but for how I use a knife, it's the best for me personally. So yeah, it's going to be D3V. And it's moving up the priority list because I lost my Shiro. I've lost it a bunch of times. But this is the first time it's actually stayed lost. It may have finally escaped to freedom. (I'm hard on knives)
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Don't worry, it's with the 10mm sockets...
 
I once left my inkosi on the roof rack of my jeep after cutting cord to tie stuff to the roof rack . I drove for 30 minutes off-road through the state park to the camp site and it was still there . Had some nice snails on the scale for decoration now
 
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