m390 HTM Gunhammer!

Insipid Moniker · Mar 6, 2012

Want!

neuron · Mar 6, 2012

Damn, that's a serious rebeveling! What's the edge angle (inclusive) now?

harkamus · Mar 6, 2012

neuron said:
Damn, that's a serious rebeveling! What's the edge angle (inclusive) now?

12.5 per side, so 25 inclusive.

EDIT: My garage built Wicked Edge-like system works great with recurves.

neuron · Mar 6, 2012

harkamus said:
12.5 per side, so 25 inclusive.

EDIT: My garage built Wicked Edge-like system works great with recurves.

Nice. I have a couple of Spyderco M390 Mules that I rebeveled to a little below 30 inclusive and have used a ton. They've performed very well.

harkamus · Mar 6, 2012

neuron said:
Nice. I have a couple of Spyderco M390 Mules that I rebeveled to a little below 30 inclusive and have used a ton. They've performed very well.

I may take this one down to 20 inclusive if the 25 holds up, which it is so far. This thing is so sharp that I'm afraid to close it one handed now because of the assisted mechanism. I'm afraid of slipping and sending that blade right back into battery, slicing up the pad of my thumb.

neuron · Mar 7, 2012

harkamus said:
I may take this one down to 20 inclusive if the 25 holds up, which it is so far. This thing is so sharp that I'm afraid to close it one handed now because of the assisted mechanism. I'm afraid of slipping and sending that blade right back into battery, slicing up the pad of my thumb.

For light use, I bet it'd do well at 20°. I've been pretty busy lately, but one of the things I'm going to mention when I get a chance to write up my impressions on various steels for the "super steels" thread is how impressed I've been by Bohler-Uddeholm's third-gen PM steels (including M390). The very fine, uniform grain structure and almost total absence of inclusions allows them, in my experience, to take a very fine edge and have excellent edge stability (resistance to chipping, etc.) despite their relatively high hardness and high alloy content.

ohmyheckinslc · Mar 8, 2012

harkamus said:
These will have to do til I get out my DSLR. Just been really busy as of late, but I promised pics, so for now:

Click to get slightly bigger pics-

It cuts like a light saber. I couldn't get all the scratches out, but the edge is still pretty mirror like. Probably spent about a week and a half trying to polish them out using a ton of stones, each time going higher and higher in grit. EDIT: It's worth noting that this is a proto of the one knifecenter is getting, meaning stuff could change from now until then. I basically have it as a test bed for the m390.

Grand, but how 'bout that tip pic, now that you're done?

harkamus · Mar 8, 2012

ohmyheckinslc said:
Grand, but how 'bout that tip pic, now that you're done?

Tip pic as in a head on shot looking down the business end?

slight · Mar 8, 2012

i hope they go with a different color than black for the handle. the copper gunhammers look so much better. or even another color to help distinguish them from the s30v.

but that is still going to be a heck of alot of knife.

harkamus · Mar 8, 2012

slight said:
i hope they go with a different color than black for the handle. the copper gunhammers look so much better. or even another color to help distinguish them from the s30v.

but that is still going to be a heck of alot of knife.

It's highly possible. I'm almost positive work on these hasn't started yet. Things can very well change from now until knifecenter has them in stock a couple months from now.

ohmyheckinslc · Mar 29, 2012

harkamus said:
Tip pic as in a head on shot looking down the business end?

Oops... Kinda delayed my response here... The same view of the tip as you'd see if you were showing the blade's centering when closed, but open in this case.... I hope that makes sense...

harkamus · Mar 29, 2012

ohmyheckinslc said:
Oops... Kinda delayed my response here... The same view of the tip as you'd see if you were showing the blade's centering when closed, but open in this case.... I hope that makes sense...

Sounds like a hard shot to pull off, but I'll try. No promises.

I will say this. An m390 Gunhammer is the prize of the next contest which I'll put up as soon as I get word from Dirk who the winner of the previous one is. There will also be a second contest that'll run as long as it needs to until Darrel is satisfied with an entry. The prize of that is a titanium knife from Dirk. Not sure if the m390 Gunny will be the same as one that you can get from the Knifecenter exclusive. I just know that the blade is m390.

harkamus · Mar 31, 2012

These are shipping to knifecenter soon. I just got wind of this from Darrel this morning.

TheBleedingEdge · Apr 1, 2012

harkamus said:
These are shipping to knifecenter soon. I just got wind of this from Darrel this morning.

Nice.

I've basically sold about every single knife I own just so that I can begin expanding my DDR/HTM collection. The M390 Gunny is on that list.

The only question that remains is, which DDR/HTM do I want first? I figured I'd wait and save some more money before making a decision, but it seems that plan has backfired. The longer I wait, the more delicious options that become available. Damn that Darrel and his inexhaustible creativity!