Kershaw Vapor

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Nice looking... fast opening... and cheap! Does anyone have any experience with them? The price is about $15-$20, and it looked like a pretty good consolidates for a user blade.

My steel experience is limited to 440, 420HC, 154CM, 1095. What's this AUS-6 like?
 
sharpens up really well just like 1095 because of the vanadium content, will hold it for a while i think its a good middle ground steel for you
 
The Skyline has much better steel. AUS6 was really good steel when it first came out, but even on economy blades there are much better choices. The 14C28 steel is a lot more refined.
 
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AUS-6 seems a lot like 420HC to me. I'd have absolutely no reservations about buying a knife in that steel. 14C28 is supposed to be better for one reason or another, which probably looks more like a plot point on a graph than anything in real life usage. Then again so was the older 13C26, which the Skyline use to me made with, which didn't perform any better than Kershaw's 420HC. Actually, I prefer Kershaw's 420HC.
 
The Kershaw Vapor I just received from Cabela's says it has 8cr13MoV steel on the blade -- if that is of interest to anyone.
 
It is alright steel. i am perfectly happy with the 14c28n. it sharpens up like a dream, holds it for a while, and is just wonderful to work with. i do not personally think that the downgrade is worth the lower cost, but that is my, say, $2, because that is what i feel like.
 
I had two Vapors. The first one was sent back to Kershaw. The blade was off-center, it was hard to open without cutting myself, and felt cheap. The second version was the same as the first. Adjusting the pivot didn't help. IMHO, the Vapor is Kershaw's worst knife. I'd get a Leek or a Blur or one of there many other great knives.
 
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