Military pics outside, in use, or just looking bada$$.

This thing just keep on cutting and cutting!! Literally sliced right through this with almost no effort.

 
Gizler00 said:
No way!!! It's still crazy sharp.

I gifted it to a friend who just completed the Iowa state trooper academy.
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Ah, good on ya for the generosity! :thumbup:

Was just saying, might be easier to do a few quick touchups here and there before you just let it go until you reach the point where you need to sit down and do a full reprofile...
 
SpeedHoles said:
Ah, good on ya for the generosity! :thumbup:

Was just saying, might be easier to do a few quick touchups here and there before you just let it go until you reach the point where you need to sit down and do a full reprofile...
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Thanks .
I hear you in the touch ups. I have been stropping it on my jeans here and there. But honestly it has not needed a touch up yet.
 
CPM CruWear is quite fast and easy to touch up anyways. Never takes me more than a few minutes to get it back to shaving.
 
EDC today.

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I've been eyeing the Cruwear Millie since they first came out, and Giz, your pics put me over the top since I think I'm gonna pass on the 204P sprint. I've got one on the way now and super excited to put it to work. Now my backup S30V must go to a new home...
 
uofaengr said:
I've been eyeing the Cruwear Millie since they first came out, and Giz, your pics put me over the top since I think I'm gonna pass on the 204P sprint. I've got one on the way now and super excited to put it to work. Now my backup S30V must go to a new home...
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Let us know how you like CPM CruWear. I think it's one of several ideal steels fitting the POU of the Millie. S30V is a great steel, but in this type of folder I think something with a little more toughness is beneficial. I'd love to have an M4 Millie too, but that dropped before I jumped headfirst into trying new steels and models. I have a 204P PM2 and I think it's a near perfect steel for that knife, though having said that I also would like to see a CruWear PM2, but I'm with you in the regard that I probably won't grab a 204P Millie.
 
Cruwear Millie is a living legend of a workhorse user.
Why they haven't done a PM2 Cruwear is beyond me. M4 will be primo, but still don't understand why Cruwear never made an appearance?

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3rdGenRigger said:
Let us know how you like CPM CruWear. I think it's one of several ideal steels fitting the POU of the Millie. S30V is a great steel, but in this type of folder I think something with a little more toughness is beneficial. I'd love to have an M4 Millie too, but that dropped before I jumped headfirst into trying new steels and models. I have a 204P PM2 and I think it's a near perfect steel for that knife, though having said that I also would like to see a CruWear PM2, but I'm with you in the regard that I probably won't grab a 204P Millie.
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What steel is it similar to, or is it in a league of its own? Pros and cons of Cruwear? Really looking forward to it.
 
Similar to CPM 3V, but more wear resistant and slightly less tough. It's not stainless, but in my experience is very corrosion resistant for a non-stainless tool steel, it is quite damage resistant, and is easy to sharpen.
 
CRU-WEAR is an air-hardening tool steel, heat treatable to HRC 60-65. Designed as an upgrade to D2, it offers better wear resistance, greater toughness and higher attainable hardness. Compared to the chemistry of D2, (D2 = 1.55% carbon, 11.5% chromium, 0.8% vanadium, and 0.9% molybdenum), CRU-WEAR has less carbon and less chromium, but more vanadium and tungsten. Both D2 and CRU-WEAR contain carbides for wear resistance, but CRU-WEAR has more vanadium carbides than D2. Vanadium carbides are harder than chromium carbides and are much more effective in providing wear resistance. Because CRU-WEAR contains less carbon than D2, its overall carbide volume is lower, making it tougher than D2. (Note: Although CRU-WEAR contains fewer total carbides, it has more of the type of carbides that are most effective for wear resistance.) CRU-WEAR’s higher attainable hardness results from the fact that it contains sufficient tungsten and molybdenum to cause a secondary hardening response, (up to HRC 65), which does not occur in D2. Finally, CRU-WEAR tempers at a higher range (900-1050°F) than D2 (400-600°F), so it is more compatible with a wide variety of surface treatments.
Information provided by Specialty Metals.

From looking at the chemistry on the Knife Steel App it is closer to 3V in chemistry than XHP or D2.
 
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