The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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That looks interesting!
What exactly will your testing include? Will it be the same procedure like when you compared the Spyderco Manix 2 to the Benchmade Griptilian?
btw. did you get a response from Spyderco about why the lock failed? Because I never heard anything about that anymore![]()
This will be interesting to see the results, but my money would be on the Buck having better edge retention and sharpness capabilities. I bought a 440C Smith & Wesson knife because it was super cheap on sale at Big 5, and I immediately noticed that the factory edge geometry was good (less than 15 degrees per side and under .020" at the shoulder of the edge) but it really burred badly. You have to be really light with your sharpening strokes on this knife or else a burred edge will be your result. When it was Rockwell tested and came in at 54 RC it was no shock, as that really explained why that steel is so gummy and burr prone.
Mike