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Since most of what I do with a knife is opening boxes, mostly from Amazon (be honest, most of you are with me on that),. I think Maxamet would be an ideal steel for me ... if I can resharpen it easily. I've used a diamond "encrusted" plate from ragnarsforge.com for many years, but with the hand/forearms tremors I just can't keep a consistent edge with it - and to be frank, it's a tiny sharpener even for small slip-joints and it's ver\y easy to cut something you deem important. My previous sharpeners of choice were composite stones that Carboloy handed out freely when they stopped to see how their bits were doing (they were for a coal mining "cutting machine", and the easiest way to describe it is to imagine a chainsaw with a 9 foot bar and replaceable tungsten bits, cutting horizontally). Naturally, to keep the mine workers satisfied enough to recommend their new bits (instead of teeth on a chain saw, they were replaceable) over re-sharpened bits) by resharpened bits which were as good or even better if resharpend by someone who was skilled. A little bit of politicking, some hand shaking and tossing a copious amount of nice whetstones around like they were free beer (You have brothers? Here, take 6 of them) went a long way toward keeping them in business selling new bits. which led to a lot of people getting really good at freehand sharpening and wanting no other method. I've run a cutting machine with both new and properly resharpened bits, and could tell no difference - but that doesn't keep you supplied in free whetstones. They're soft and don't last very long (maybe by design), but they sure would put a keen edge on a pocketknife in a hurry.
Damn, where was I? Oh, as much as I love my Cruwear PM2, it's gotten to the point that I'm loathe to use it in such an edge-deadening chore as opening and breaking down boxes. If the Spyderco Tri-angle sharpener will handle Maxamet, I'm going to end up with one. With plenty of isopropyel (sp?) and paper towels at hand to get the sticky off the blade, it sounds like a PM2-3 in Maxamet would be perfect for that one job, even though it isn't as versatile as Cruwear. I may need to buy a finer "grit" diamond stone, and I don't know if that's available. What say you?