Terrain 365 Dendritic Cobalt is really good today! Talonite from years ago was a great one for me. I still miss Rob's work today.
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Terrain 365 Dendritic Cobalt is really good today! Talonite from years ago was a great one for me. I still miss Rob's work today.
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I've been to his home in Clancy on a motorcycle trip. Had big plans for doing stuff with him as I was getting ready to pull the plug at the end of 2003...and then he and his brother had the accident on the way back from hunting.
We used to get into trouble together every year at the Blade Show...along with Jeff Randall. It was quite the scene.
Love that guy.
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I cannot be the only one that often times wastes away time on YT watching the various bro science knife channels slicing, chopping, using, and abusing just to see what a particular blade can do. What made me raise an eyebrow to MagnaCut initially was the bizarre tests trying to get some of it to rust. Then watching it slice through all the rope, cardboard, and more and keep a decent edge longer than you would have thought for the high level of stainlessness. And then the brick chopping, metal shaving, and other nonsense level testing showed the edge could really take some abuse instead of instantly breaking away.
And I cringe at all the "most people don't even know the difference" type of talk. I used to be one of those people. For me it was steel that rusts immediately and steel that just eventually rusts. All my Gerber Gators, Buck 110's, and Leathermans would rust if I didn't occasionally hose them down with oil and wipe them off. And I could instantly tell what had soft steel from it going dull so fast and being able to strop the edge over the top of the window glass. Sure, I couldn't tell you it was XYZ steel but I could sure tell a difference. If anything, we're hitting some a pinnacle of god tier level steels that maybe now it's getting hard to tell the difference without some higher level use. Will I be able to tell the difference in a pocket knife made of MagnaCut vs one made with MagnaMax?
So now we're going to see the teeter-totter tip a slight bit away from toughness to edge holding? I drool at the thought of all the future bro sciencing soon to come...
And I cringe at all the "most people don't even know the difference" type of talk. I used to be one of those people. For me it was steel that rusts immediately and steel that just eventually rusts. All my Gerber Gators, Buck 110's, and Leathermans would rust if I didn't occasionally hose them down with oil and wipe them off. And I could instantly tell what had soft steel from it going dull so fast and being able to strop the edge over the top of the window glass. Sure, I couldn't tell you it was XYZ steel but I could sure tell a difference. If anything, we're hitting some a pinnacle of god tier level steels that maybe now it's getting hard to tell the difference without some higher level use. Will I be able to tell the difference in a pocket knife made of MagnaCut vs one made with MagnaMax?
So now we're going to see the teeter-totter tip a slight bit away from toughness to edge holding? I drool at the thought of all the future bro sciencing soon to come...