Maxamet use

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Anyone have any input on their recent maxamet use? This has been fairly quite lately so I figured I'd revisit it. I've been having excellent, EXCELLENT, edge performance and retention. I've tried varied degrees of edge angle and coarseness and performance has been stellar across the board. My personal one is the PM2.
 
It certainly is an intriguing and impressive new blade material -- not sure if it qualifies as 'steel':confused:. How do you sharpen it? Do you use a toothy edge or a very fine edge?
 
Alberta Ed said:
It certainly is an intriguing and impressive new blade material -- not sure if it qualifies as 'steel':confused:. How do you sharpen it? Do you use a toothy edge or a very fine edge?
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I use a belt system to sharpen. I have tried high grit and low grit finishes and have had the best results with toothy low grit, but they have all cut very well.
 
I am still using both my Maxamet Mule and my Maxamet ManixLW without issues. The stuff is amazing.
 
Maxamet Para2 has been in pocket since I got it. Just general daily use, has cut a few cable ties, broken down a couple of large cardboard box, cut open a bunch of 20kg sacks of rock salt, whittled a point on several stakes for the garden, stuff like that. Haven't done anything particularly hard with it or tried to 'test' it, but it does get used every day
It's not as ultra sharp as it was new, but still pretty close. This thing seems to have serious edge holding.
Touched it up once on the SM a few days ago, maybe a dozen light strokes on the fine stones. Not 'cos it needed it yet, I just cut some A4 before and after doing so to try. Couldn't really notice much difference.
I'm highly curious how I'm going to fare with it when it does need a good sharpen and I clamp it in the WE, but it seems like it's going to be a long time before I need to do that.
 
I have the Mule Team in maxamet and I sharpened it all the way up through the ultra fine rods, then went back and put 5 light passes per side on the medium rods to add just a touch of tooth back on it. Holy smokes is this thing sharp and holds great!
 
I've had my Maxamet Manix 2 for over a year now and it is holding up just fine! I keep a mirror polished edge on it with compound strops and bare strops. I've only had to take it to the stones once in the whole year I've had it.
 
I’ve carried a maxamet N5 LW for 3 months now and it’s really impressive. The fit and finish on the natives coming out of Golden right now are near flawless and the maxamet variation is no exception. Haven’t put it to the stones yet but from what I hear this steel responds very well, if this is the case it will be hard to knock this steel out of my pocket.
 
I have 2 manix 2 in maxamet and waiting for pm2s to come back in stock. I was never a huge fan of spyderco until I was turned on to maxamet by a friend. For $150-$190 you wont find a better steel from a more reputable company and maxamet is easier to sharpen than s110v or even m390 for 2-5 times the edge retention.
 
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I got a Native 5 in Maxamet and I have an intense love/hate relationship with the steel. It is the worst thing I've ever tried to sharpen. Chipped ceramic was more fun to work. Took 3 separate sharpening sessions to refine the edge fully, it always had little nicks left that I couldn't refine out (it was failure to work each grit long enough and using improper technique), but Maxamet made even S110V look easy to sharpen. Normally with full grit progression not having to reprofile I'm looking at like 30-40 minutes per blade... Maxamet takes around an hour minimum, close to 2 if I have to reprofile.

That said, I used the steel at work cutting extremely dirty cardboard twice, once with a more refined edge and one with a toothy edge. Refined edge held the razor portion about as long as AUS-8 takes to fully dull (maybe VG-10), then dulled to a more toothy feeling edge that went nowhere. The toothy edge just ripped through cardboard like it was out for blood, no signs at all of slowing down. I've had the same amount show noticeable dulling on S90V and S110V.

Maxamet doesn't cut like a steel, it cuts like some type of mythical magical material separator. I've seen people whittle metal with it and the edge barely showed a thing. I've never before seen a super steel that literally can completely change the game (granted there are a lot of steels I have never used) but Maxamet marks something very big.
 
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