Kershaw Shallot CPM S110V

Larrin said:
I didn't know that they had been hinting at such a steel, all I know is I asked them at the Blade show if the S110V was to compete with ZDP and they told me no.
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I believe Crucible referred to 110V as S90V on 'roids.
 
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My mistake...You guys have come out with so much great stuff recently, I get confused sometimes!
 
steelscout30 said:
Very nice review, I imagine I'll have to be getting one soon. :D
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Sure, it may be not best design - I rather prefer JYDII with this steel, but this one is the Land Mark in Knife World and Kershaw build quite a bit of them thanks to Thomas (but just dismiss that Kershaw Mafia fan club - it just hard to came to Kershaw forum to talk about anything now, not like in an old days).

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Larrin, Vassili, Joshua, Thomas and everybody else thanks for the information on this knife, and the new steel. It's one I've really been waiting on since I first heard of the steel. It's an excellent platform to launch it on IMO too. Joe ( Kershaw mafia fan club)
 
I resharpen Shallot again, this time at some point I see it little whittle hair once, but only once and I was not able to do this again. I tryed my diamond strop, but it was loaded while ago. I need to find my diamond powder and try it freshly loaded.

Really misticue steel!

Who knows what Niobium and Cobalt Carbides hardness or where to find this information?

I check blade under microscope and compare it with ZDP-189. I use 100 magnification and I see ZDP is more polished while CPM S110V is kind or little grainy. I think that Chromium Oxide just softer then Niobium Carbides and does not polish them but rather cleans what is around them. So I can not get good polish with Green Rouge on it and need thinnest diamond powder, probably.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Nice review. Thank you for putting in the time and posting your thoughts.
 
I found my 50000 mesh diamond powder (can not find 100000 yet). Rush to polish edge - it definitely got mirror polish, unlike after Green Rouge. So I think I was right about Niobium Carbides being harder then Chromium Oxides...

But no hair whittling yet! I see that hair starts dancing way more then before - edge bumping on hair shells, which is good sign, that edge is not somehow rounded up, but it did not bite in and not shave. I was able to do this with both ends of hair fixed, but not usual way yet. Let see if it will whittle hair after 100000 mesh diamond powder - but I need to find it first.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
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I am wondering if we can use CPM S110V for stropping/ polishing other blades...

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Hi Vassily,have you carried this in your pocket?.Any problems with accidental openings.Thank you.
 
Interesting result, cant' wait for further usability info on this steel! :thumbup:

I think, Shallot is a dead sexy piece of steel... :D
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Raj said:
Hi Vassily,have you carried this in your pocket?.Any problems with accidental openings.Thank you.
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I am not carrying it. I did carry Leak - very similar. I have only problem with accidental opening when I removed torsion bar. but otherwise it was safe.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
2sparky said:
I got my s110v shallot to whittle hair...
-Barry-

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It will be more useful not to just post whittled hair, but also tell us how did your done this and picture your knife with this hair as well. Usually as you may see in other thread - "Sharpness record" people like to share how they achieve this.

I am not an amateur in sharpening, but I can not do this - but I want to be able to sharpen CPM S110V.

Can you teach me how to do this? I like to learn how to do this myself to do same what you just did. Not just see this amazing macro photo with very good light set up - almost piece of art I should note.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Vassili, in order to "properly whittle hair" must the hair be held freehand and then the knife whittles it from there? Or can you lay the hair on a surface, such as a finger/table?
 
nozh2002 said:
I found my 50000 mesh diamond powder (can not find 100000 yet).
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Dave Martell of Japanese Knife Sharpening has Diamond powder spray, that is 0.25 micron, which translates to your 100 000 mesh.
I've been using is several months for a while and it's just perfect.
He also has 0.5mic diamond spray, which is much better than messing with CrO powder.

No experience with 110V yet, but in general it's not much use polishing those steels(CPM-10V, CPM-125V) at that level. I figure you did find that out with your push cutting problems
 
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