MacTech's great Cut-Off competition

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Tonight i decided to pick up a new beater knife (Gerber Truss 2.0) as the EZ-Out is starting to show it's age and abuse is catching up with it, normally i wouldn't give Gerber my money, but the thing's a beater, i could care less if it breaks....

anyway, getting back on target, i figured i'd do a cutting competition, take an 8" high piece of cardboard, start at the back of the blade and pull towards myself and cut downward, using just enough pressure to start the cut, not forcing anything, start on the factory edge, then run the Truss 2.0 over the Sharpmaker and see if i could see a difference...

Cutoff2.jpg

the first cut on the left was the factory edge, the one on the right, after the Sharpmaker, cuts #2 AND 3 were errors, the knife slipped out in the middle and scored the rest of the way down

just for fun, i decided to test my other knives, all run on the Sharpmaker with one exception;

Endura CE (VG-10)
Dyad Jr SE (ATS-55)
Dyad Jr PE (ATS 55)
Buck 110 (420HC)
Cricket (VG-10 Factory edge)
Native (CPM S30V)
Jester SE (AUS-6)
Cutoff.jpg


the Cricket was absolutely amazing, cut thru the cardboard like it wasn't even there, this little sub 1" bladed beauty actually *out-cut* the 4" long Endura made of identical steel, both in length and cleanness....

in terms of cleanness of the cut, the knives stacked up this way (cleanest to roughest);

Cricket
Truss (this surprised me, that this cheap-crap beater knife cut this well after a trip down the Sharpmaker)
Dyad Jr PE
Native
Buck 110
Endura
Dyad Jr SE
Jester
 
Oh, forgot to test the Buck Metro buried in my wallet, dug it out, and the cut was equivalent in distance and cleanliness to the Gerber Truss 2.0 after the Sharpmaker treatment

the metro had also been given the Sharpmaker treatment...

one other piece of info, the knives that cut the easiest and required the least force were;
Cricket
Dyad Jr PE blade
Native

knives that had the most resistance;
the serrated part of the Endura
serrated Dyad Jr blade
Jester
Buck 110

so overall, i'd declare the winners as following;

First Place, the Gold Medal winner;
Spyderco SS PE Cricket

Second Place, Silver Medal;
Spyderco PE Native

Third Place, Bronze medal;
Spyderco Endura CE

Honorable Mention;
Gerber Truss 2.0, for a cheap beater knife, it actually did a pretty decent job, even when stacked up against far superior cutting tools

here's a group shot of the contenders
Knifefamily.jpg
 
Those small Spyderco's with the radical edges are insanely powerful on draw cuts with the combination of very thin and acute edges and extreme
curvature, nice work.

-Cliff
 
Very interesting test MacTech :thumbup:

I wonder how the serrated Cricket would have done.

This proves that you mustn't underestimate Spyderco's little big knives:D

Thanks for sharing :cool: :thumbup:
 
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