M390 + Carbon Fiber Military - They're Here...

P1GEONPOO said:
I'd swap the black G10 for a CF scale on the modded millie.:)
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I know what you mean and it's tempting, but here's why I wouldn't. The lanyard tube is flared. There are work-arounds, but at the end of the day it's not likely to be factory-tight after a swap. YMMV but balancing the various considerations, I left the G10 with the Ti. Another consideration is that the M4 blade is at least in a fully CF set of handles, so it's attractive and logical, at least IMHO. Having it in a half G10-half CF handle set would be, IMHO, uuuuuugggggly. YMMV.
 
JNewell said:
I know what you mean and it's tempting, but here's why I wouldn't. The lanyard tube is flared. There are work-arounds, but at the end of the day it's not likely to be factory-tight after a swap. YMMV but balancing the various considerations, I left the G10 with the Ti. Another consideration is that the M4 blade is at least in a fully CF set of handles, so it's attractive and logical, at least IMHO. Having it in a half G10-half CF handle set would be, IMHO, uuuuuugggggly. YMMV.
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I thought about that after I posted :p It would be pretty bad to have 1/2 g10 1/2 cf milli :o
 
JNewell said:
I know what you mean and it's tempting, but here's why I wouldn't. The lanyard tube is flared. There are work-arounds, but at the end of the day it's not likely to be factory-tight after a swap. YMMV but balancing the various considerations, I left the G10 with the Ti. Another consideration is that the M4 blade is at least in a fully CF set of handles, so it's attractive and logical, at least IMHO. Having it in a half G10-half CF handle set would be, IMHO, uuuuuugggggly. YMMV.
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That does makes more sense:thumbup:
 
So I just received mine this afternoon. I already have an S90V variant...and the M390 is all that + I prefer M390 (I like the edge it takes better). Great F&F EXCEPT:

Neither of my blades were particularly sharp. I TRULY don't care about this since I prefer the edges I put on my blades with my EP...but these are strangely dull knives per Spyderco standards. It looks like the grinds never made an apex on the cutting bevel. I truly see this as a plus since that means no material was ground away unnecessarily (i.e. my blade will have that much more life on it), but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

Just an observation and something I'm not use to on Spyderco knives. I may be weird and would actually prefer if ALL my blades only came semi-sharpened which would allow me to put my edge on each blade w/o taking off material unnecessarily.
 
Gunsnknives said:
So I just received mine this afternoon. I already have an S90V variant...and the M390 is all that + I prefer M390 (I like the edge it takes better). Great F&F EXCEPT:

Neither of my blades were particularly sharp. I TRULY don't care about this since I prefer the edges I put on my blades with my EP...but these are strangely dull knives per Spyderco standards. It looks like the grinds never made an apex on the cutting bevel. I truly see this as a plus since that means no material was ground away unnecessarily (i.e. my blade will have that much more life on it), but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this.

Just an observation and something I'm not use to on Spyderco knives. I may be weird and would actually prefer if ALL my blades only came semi-sharpened which would allow me to put my edge on each blade w/o taking off material unnecessarily.
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I only got one but it is as sharp if not sharper than any other of my Spydies. Strange how you got two that were dull.
 
Mine came extremely sharp. Easily the sharpest knife I've ever gotten out of the box. The tip is also exceptionally fine.
 
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