Just Got a Spyderco Perrin...

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blastjv

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...and in my best Keanu Reeves: "whoa..."

For the niche this knife is meant to fill in my collection (Concealed Fixed Blade for Self Defense) I am completely, 110% satisfied!!!!! It is EXACTLY the knife I'd hoped it would be.

The handle shape just simply MELTS into my hand, it's as though it wasn't even there. There's just this scary sharp piece of metal sprouting from my hand.

The blade is INSANELY SHARP!!!!! I tested the edge on some paper on my desk and all the other pieces of paper started screaming and crying, begging for mercy!!!

I am thrilled with this one.

GREAT KNIFE!!!!!

Thanks,

-John
 
I have a Spyderco Temperance that I feel the same way about...The VG-10 steel that Spyderco uses is AWESOME!.
 
I also have the perrin bowie and share your feeling about it. Are you satisfied with the sheath?, mine was rather loose and needs some tightning. It came very sharp out of the box, a great little tool.
 
I think the sheath is good, not great, but good, and better than most factory sheaths. It is listed as being Kydex, but is obviously not made from a simple sheet of kydex and heat formed, it looks injection molded (which I think CAN be done with certain forms of kydex). I've heard other people say they really didn't like it but I think it's OK. I DID notice something which I had rad about earlier, though: When I first inserted the knife into the sheath it did not stay at all, it would fall right out. I said, "This sucks." But, then I inserted it and pushed it in just a little further and it 'clicked', then it was quite secure. I have recently gotten into making my own Concealex sheaths, so I didn't care much if it didn't work, I had planned to make my own sheath the way I want it anyway.

I really can't beleive how sharp this puppy is! I've never seen anything take the little tiniest hairs off my arm like that. AMAZING!!! I usually don't care TOO much whether a knife coes sharp or not since some of my sharpest knives are only sharp because I made 'em that way, not because they were sharp when I got 'em, but this one is truly exceptional!

Thanks,

-John
 
Try taking a razor strop to your flat ground & hollow ground blades. Hell , it works with almost any thin blade. Trick is to keep the blade almost laying on its side as you pull it along the strop, with sharp edge trailing. Starting with my Perrin & Temperance having fresh out of their boxes edges, they became sticky sharp in about a dozen passes on each side. My ATR is able to cut hair without touching the skin after the strop treatment! That S30V is incredible. I put a mirror edge on my Moran with a lot of time & effort & it WAS my sharpest. But with a little touchup to get the feather edge off on the sharpmaker,& stropping lightly, the ATR is sharper now. I can use push cuts to take my fingerprints off, hehe.
 
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