Greco Whisper?

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stich

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I'm going to get a couple of John Greco's knives. I've decided on the x-plorer, and I think I'd like the whisper c.t. but a search produces no results. I recall his knives are well regarded, but never seen one in person. They look like real bargains. Thanks for any info on his knives.
 
I have a Greco Whisper. It is really designed as a self defense (or offense, I guess) knife. Well balanced, tough as tool steel, which it is, and fast in the hand. Great price as he closes things out.

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http://www.grecoknives.com

Bill
 
I've got a couple of his folders and a hatchet. I've handled several of his fixed blades. All of them are extremely robust. You can certainly thin the edges of the fixed blades if you prefer a better slicing action. His knives will take and hold a great edge, in my personal experience. I tried to abuse the hatchet, but the edge stayed shaving sharp, even after a few days of hacking at thornbushes.
 
I picked up a Whisper fairly recently and I am impressed. It is a great fighter, but it's also a whole lot tougher than its thin profile suggests.

I'm thinking about getting a horizontal kydex sheath made for mine so I can carry it more casually.

--Bob Q
 
I followed the link to his site and noticed that he's using 8670 for his blades. Not being at all familiar with that grade I did a search and found it on a steel supplier's site. They recommend it for circular saw blades -- but based on the replies to the original post it looks as if it make a decent knife blade. If I read the manufacturer's chart right, it looks like it'll harden to over 60c. Yes?

Mark
 
Greco knives are right among the quality blades whether they are folders or fixed blades.

The MST is a force to be reckoned with. The Falcon folder, even though the blade is only about 3 and a quarter inches, is as tough as they come.

Greco knives are now definitely value for money. The man's really good and he's not even bragging about them. His customers are promoting his knives for him. :)
 
John Greco was selling his knives at bargain prices before he started his closeout sale.

--Bob Q
 
I really wanted to try one of these because of the 8670 steel. High carbon steels can take a sharper edge than most stainless steels.
Ordered the Whisper & 5" Companion & they're definatly bargains at $50 each.
The edge back bevel is narrow enough on the Whisper so that you can use a Sharpmaker to get a really keen edge. Starting with the brown stones & finishing with the ultra-fine. I wound up using just the points of the triangle stones because this is very tough steel.
John Greco says they're hardened to the "high 50's" so I'm guessing 57-58 RC.

This steel takes more time than any stainless I've honed using the Sharpmaker, but the results are very good. This is partly due to the origonal edge geometry, but even after getting the grind right with the brown hones, it takes a while to get it to hair popping. Finishing the blade with a strop brought out the "sticky" edge that just pops hairs off, right to the very tip of the blade.

The design of the knife lends itself to work as a fillet knife for large fish, and of course is great for self defence.

It's actually rather small in the hand, but feels very comfortable. Very secure & not much chance of the hand slipping up on the blade. Just cutting up some chicken & fish have shown that it holds an edge as good as any of the "super" stainless steels I've been using.

Gonna reprofile the 5" Companion on the EdgePro & that baby oughta be "twangy" sharp , as John Greco puts it.

What impressed me most is that I got the Whisper to that level just on a Sharpmaker, instead of having to use the EdgePro first. The EdgePro is usually needed to take off the "factory" edge & get down to the good steel that will really hold an edge.
John's not overheating the blade when he puts the origonal edge on, & the grind marks show that he's using a very fine grit. For a blade .2" thick, this thing takes a wicked edge.
 
I have a few of his blades .
I really like them.
I have 2 wispers a couple of bones
and a couple MSTs.
The bones will be my conceled carry blades the wispers will be more of a traveling blade and the MSTs will be my field blade.You can bet your life on Johns blades ....I do ...I am going back to S.E.A. in a couple of weeks And of course these are going with me .
I will be getting rid of some of my other knives as they are to big for my eveyday carry. I have Med size hands and Johns knive's fit nicely .Tuff as nails
Fast.
Regards
Chris
 
I don't have a whisper but I do have an older Falcon. As a matter of fact it is my knife of the day. With a pocket clip I'm sure it would be in my rotation more. Other than corrosion I don't think I can hurt this fine knife. Speaking of corrosion there is none on the handle and only a tiny bit on the blade that was easily corrected. I was on the road with my bike for a long ride in the rain so it got soaked. It was put to use digging rocks out of my tires and cutting cord for tying stuff on to my bike. Really, when I think of it any of my knives would have suffered with some corrosion. The coating on the handle is far tougher than some anodized handles out there. I just ordered an Extrema Ratio M.P.C because I like to have different styles of blades. Both the Greco and the ER M.P.C arn't great "slicers" but they get the job done and with being so thick and flat ground it is way tougher than I need.

Considering the price between the Greco (75.oo), Strider (350.oo-450.oo) and Extrema Ratio knives (285.oo)you CAN'T lose with the Greco... If you buy a few of them then you still save$$$ :confused:
 
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