How is magnacut in the “real world”

[Spydermade86]

How are you guys liking your magnacut? Is it living up to the hype? What would you compare its edge retention to? So far I dig it! Easy to sharpen takes a pretty fine edge and the market is flooded with it! My example is a spyderco who usually has great heat treat!

 

[jameeson]

Terrible.
It doesn't patina. I don't get to sharpen it much. I have to buy every new knife that comes out with it... I was better off pre-magnacut days

 

[Spydermade86]

love it

 

[edgelion]

In line for a car wash yesterday, I found myself wondering if my jalopy's frame and body panels could be made from it. But I remembered that I don't use my car to cut things.

I have not yet needed to sharpen any of the knife specimens in my stable.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Great steel, easy to sharpen, highly corrosion resistant, tough, takes an extremely fine edge and holds it darn near forever. The best cutlery steel I've found so far, albeit I'm also fond of high carbon steels.

 

[The True North]

I think it's cool. It does what Larrin designed it to do.

In normal everyday use, I don't notice a huge difference from stuff like Benchmade's or Spyderco's S30V, S45VN, and Kershaw's 14C28N.

That might change with an example from a custom maker who obsesses over the heat treat process.

 

[kreole]

Kinda like s35vn. Definitely under s30v

 

[ShaiHulud]

I used a few steels in it, then found myself going back to old favorites. At the moment I neither have a Knife in magnacut or an old favorite, buy for the knife now and the steel is what it is--- back to magnacut i am something special, I had a sharp enough knife in it and tried to strop it and managed to make it duller
Reminds me of when 3v was new and it was everywhere l, now its magnacut, soon itll be max, then so on and so on.
A knife made well in magnacut is definitely a user though

 

[DMG]

I have used it a bunch and am as happy with it as I am with M4 and 3V

 

[Blues]

I have used it a bunch and am as happy with it as I am with M4 and 3V

And let's throw Cru-Wear in there, if I may.

 

[Spydermade86]

I have found the edge retention very similar to Spydercos Cru-Wear

 

[SharpBits]

Yeah, it should be in the Cruwear range with edge holding in the 4V range, while very being corrosion resistant. Excellent stuff.

 

[Ron Texas]

What is the real world? Super steels are wonderful, but expensive. I wind up doing most cutting with Chinese D2/K110 blades so I don't cry if they get scratched, trashed or lost.

 

[abcdef]

I bought all of my knives before it came out. So sad.

 

[Monofletch]

My favorite so far is a Hoback Relentless in Magnacut. With a full flat grind it gets very sharp and stays sharp for a very long time!!

 

[DMG]

I bought all of my knives before it came out. So sad.

Better buy some more

 

[waynemanning74]

I've only had one knife in magnacut and it was good but I prefer S30V. I guess I just don't see the need for the extra cost when S30V performs really really well.

 

[Ironbut]

A Buck 112 in Magnacut has been my most used knife over the last 2+ years. I've always liked S35VN's combination of toughness, ability to hold an edge, and relative ease of sharpening. I think Magnacut takes all those properties to the next level.

 

[Terry M.]

Love MagnaCut! Probably my favorite with Vanax being a close second.

 

[kobold]

Only have a plain edge Native Salt. The factory edge lasted a long time, i let it go really dull. It was easy to sharpen to shaving sharpness. No rust. Works as advertised. So i went ahead and bought a serrated edge magnacut native chief and received it today. I am sure it will outcut my serrated edge lc200n native (which can cut for like three weeks if used hard every day).