Maxamet question

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maybey I missed it but was there a official reason why the pm2 and para3 maxamet Were only sold for a very short time? I know the manix and native can be purchased easily and don’t suffer from whatever the issue is with the para variants?
 
They kind of always do that with the PM2/3. Just check out the REX45 frenzy that just went down.
 
Danke42 said:
They kind of always do that with the PM2/3. Just check out the REX45 frenzy that just went down.
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From what I understand it was meant to be a regular production like s110 not so much a exclusive or sprint. I could be wrong though
 
Maxamet has some manufacturing issues that are causing issues for them. They also had some warped pm2 blades and people have problems sharpening them (though this is likely due to the person's technique and or the abrasives they are using.

I have a mule and a pm3 in maxamet. I wanted a pm2 but after the delays I decide to go pm3 and I was pleasantly surprised how great of a knife the pm3 really is. I thought it was gonna be too small but it's not. And it fits far better in my pockets than my pm2.
I also don't have issues sharpening maxamet like some do. I use bonded diamond stones and diamond strops which may attribute to that.
 
The PM2 was supposed to be regular production, but as T Twinsdad stated, some warped blades seem to have at least contributed to Spyderco stopping production, though I have never read any official cause for stopping production from them. I think the prevailing theory amongst customers was that the blade warping may have been due to the larger size of the PM2 blade. However, the Para 3, also supposedly a regular production, is nowhere to be found while the Manix 2 LW, which has a larger Maxamet blade than the Para 3, is readily available. That fact and that I have never heard of a warped Para 3 Maxamet blade tells me there is something else in play here, but Spyderco isn't really saying.
 
on_the_edge said:
The PM2 was supposed to be regular production, but as T Twinsdad stated, some warped blades seem to have at least contributed to Spyderco stopping production
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I was going to say how nice it is to sit over here . . . off the playing field . . . feet up sipping something cold and delish . . . feeling total bliss and contentment with my "old school" M4 . . .
but now I hear, for the first time (haven't been following the Maximet debacle ), about the warpwarp.
I say : IT'S A SIGN ! ! !
IT'S A SIGN ! ! !
The knife gods are angry !
The only way to appease them is to immediately start production of many, many knives in M4 for continuous and indefinite production.
Which knives ? Well all the ones I like of course. I'll send a list upon request (after all contracts are signed and retainer fees have cleared of course).

What was it Hunter S. Thompson said about the '60s hippy culture? Something to the effect of if you go out to . . .

well I'll let him tell you :

“It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...

And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark— that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.”
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Could we be at that point for knife steel ?
Shame . . . but I'm OK with it.
M4 for ever !
 
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1. The material is very Expensive

2. There are warping issues in HT.

3. There is extra cost machine, grind and finish the blades due to excessive wear resistance and hardness of the material.

3. The steel gathered a reputation of being very difficult to sharpen and too brittle to use.

4. It's the longest cutting steel available from a production company.
 
Sal and the crew have said that the Maxamet will return someday.

I think it's easy for people to write off how difficult something like Maxamet is to mass produce and why it's so legendary that Spyderco had the ability and courage to bring it to us.

ZT had used it in there limited run ZT 888 but word is they had supposedly deemed it nearly impossible to mass produce due to severe warping issues.

So it was very cool to see Spyderco step up to the mantle of performance and blow our minds with such a unique material.

They are the only company that tries.
 
I don't know if they're the only one that tries...but I think it's fair to characterize them as the tip of the spear.
 
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