Got my first spyderco earlier this week.

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Sionow

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I got my D'Allara Rescue Monday of this week. Knife was very sharp and seemed pretty high quality. I didn't use it too much this week, but it got it's fair share. Cutting Valve stems out of rims, opening packages, cutting zip ties. Normal auto shop stuff. So earlier to day I take a closer look at the edge on it. It seems I've already broken off two of the teeth, one partially and the other almost all the way up. And put a notch in another tooth. The hardest thing this knife has touched all week would be a staple in a cardboard box. Not too impressed at this point I've had $10 Walmart specials last longer then this and it wasn't a heavy work week.
 
Sionow said:
I got my D'Allara Rescue Monday of this week. Knife was very sharp and seemed pretty high quality. I didn't use it too much this week, but it got it's fair share. Cutting Valve stems out of rims, opening packages, cutting zip ties. Normal auto shop stuff. So earlier to day I take a closer look at the edge on it. It seems I've already broken off two of the teeth, one partially and the other almost all the way up. And put a notch in another tooth. The hardest thing this knife has touched all week would be a staple in a cardboard box. Not too impressed at this point I've had $10 Walmart specials last longer then this and it wasn't a heavy work week.
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Odd, I've have several VG-10 SE blades, and all of them have been verrrrrrry durable. Never really had a bad chip....
 
That's not normal at all. VG-10 is much more durable than that, and VG-10 rolls rather than breaks, so if yours has actually chipped, there may be something wrong with it.

I'd sent it to Spyderco for closer examination.
 
Staples in cardboard boxes would be one of the worst things you could subject a SE edge too. It's impossible that a $10 blade would have held up better as you wouldn't get VG-10 in that. Sorry that you dinged your blade up, but it's unfair to blame the manufacturer for your mistake.
G27
 
I did not mean I attempted to saw through a staple, I simply meant it grazed it while slicing cardboard (no force was applied between the edge and the staple). And yes I've used $10 blades in the same fashion for many years. They do get worn but not this quickly, and I've never broken entire teeth off of them.
 
Sionow, that´s ridiculous, sorry. The best low price knife in Walmart surely is the Native FRN, S30V for 40$. And even this would have problems to cut staples without chipping. You can´t possibly be serious about telling us a 10$ Walmart special from chinese trumpet sheet metal would do better than VG-10. :eek:

VG-10 is a very good stainless steel which means it is not made to cut staples. If you want a steel that can even cut metal you have to take a non stainless steel e.g. a toolsteel like D2 or M2 or a high carbon steel plus a blade geometry that makes the edge tough enough. AFAIK D2 for example is used in the industry to cut other metals on a 90° angle. There a several other very high performance non stainless blade steels of which I only know the german writing, like 1.2552. All of these non stainless steels would be best suited for hard use in plain edge version with a rather obtuse angle, like 40° +. A wonderful example on how bladessmiths test their high performance knives you can find here
or here for slow connections from Andrew Jordan. With these knives you could ut the 10$ Walmart special in pieces. :D

By the way I have a D´Allara Rescue on the way to me and I´m rather confident it will come up to my expectations very well like my other VG-10 SE Spydies already did. In case I´d feel the need to cut staples or nails with it I´d ask a knifemaker to make a special purpose blade for it. ;)

Best wishes,
JB
 
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