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John Phillips

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Anyone have any good intel on when the mainstay companies in the knife world will roll out their knives with Magnacut? I’m wondering about Spyderco, ZT, Benchmade, CRK, Hinderer, Fox, Spartan Blades and probably 20-30 other companies I won’t take time to mention. Y’all get the point. Thoughts?
 
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Just my personal opinion, lots of competing steels and magnacut won't be mainstream. S45v appears to be a front runner for most companies switching to what their standard will be moving forward.

Also, you have some of those companies trying to push their own in house proprietary blends. Spyderco will use spy27 before magnacut. Artisan has AR-RPM9. I think more companies will follow suit and come to market with custom recipes that magnacut will struggle with due to competing interests.
 
I would expect Spyderco to have a Magnacut mule at least officially announced within 6 months, followed by a Golden flagship sprint before the end of 2022. Sal has indicated that they have purchased a large quantity of Magnacut, and he would prefer either a PM2, Para 3 or Shaman to be the first folder. It's a good bet that Magnacut will replace S110V in their premium production line in the next 2-3 years.
 
Yo Mama said:
Just my personal opinion, lots of competing steels and magnacut won't be mainstream. S45v appears to be a front runner for most companies switching to what their standard will be moving forward.

Also, you have some of those companies trying to push their own in house proprietary blends. Spyderco will use spy27 before magnacut. Artisan has AR-RPM9. I think more companies will follow suit and come to market with custom recipes that magnacut will struggle with due to competing interests.
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That might be true for a while, but from what info I have seen with Magnacut it has better toughness and stainlessness than S45VN for similar edge retention, so in the long term it will be the front runner as far as what is available now IMO.
 
HP2114B said:
I would expect Spyderco to have a Magnacut mule at least officially announced within 6 months, followed by a Golden flagship sprint before the end of 2022. Sal has indicated that they have purchased a large quantity of Magnacut, and he would prefer either a PM2, Para 3 or Shaman to be the first folder. It's a good bet that Magnacut will replace S110V in their premium production line in the next 2-3 years.
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It will more likely replace S45VN. S110V(or something similar) will always have a market share due to the far superior edge retention
 
chalby said:
It will more likely replace S45VN. S110V(or something similar) will always have a market share due to the far superior edge retention
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Spyderco doesn't change base steels lightly. S30V was their base steel for 17 years. The overall performance envelope and material cost is what will put Magnacut into the premium line.
 
HP2114B said:
Spyderco doesn't change base steels lightly. S30V was their base steel for 17 years. The overall performance envelope and material cost is what will put Magnacut into the premium line.
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Maybe, but I doubt it. The reports from a lot of the smaller custom makers have indicated that it is a relatively easy steel to work with in production, so I don't think cost will be a big factor in the long term.

The other thing is that Magnacut simply doesn't have the attributes to justify it replacing S110V. It isn't similar. It is similar to the S30V class of steels like S35VN and S45VN but with better toughness and corrosion resistance.

There are a number of steels that might be better choice for the "high end" Spyderco variants, but Magnacut isn't one of them. Just my opinion though.
 
CRK still hasn't really moved completely over to S45VN, having to use up what seems like a lifetime supply of their stock S35VN, even though they let it out they were making the switch over a year ago.

Can't imagine their sloth-like haste will get them over to anything more cutting edge anytime soon.
 
Oh, good... I needed an excuse to buy another knife... well, actually, not;). I'm also looking forward to trying Magnacut.
 
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