My respects to Steel Will Cutjack

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JamesofArc

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A few months back i seen a review on the Steel Will Cutjack in D2 and so i ordered one and i have to admit that after a month of daily carry that i have nothing but respect for this knife. For 40 bucks i have a serious knife.

Any other feelings like this?
 
Absolutely fantastic knife for the money. There is the RATs and the Cutjacks. Then there is everyone else.

My only gripe with the Cutjack is that they need to smooth out the part of the handle where the clip makes contact. Like the Delica does. So it is no longer a PITA to get in & out of the pocket.
 
It is a serious knife. I have the Mini Cutjack in M390 and love it. The mini is more the size that I prefer to carry.
 
I have the Mini Cutjack in D2 and am hard pressed to carry other knives. I've (unintentionally) tried to break the knife stabbing into triple thick double wall corrugated cardboard (found out after I got through how thick it was) and the lock held, the knife was comfy to use, and after cutting a pretty obscene amount of cardboard considering it's a budget knife the edge held up and was still reasonably sharp. Only knife that's giving the Cutjack serious competition that I have right now is the Bestech Lion that I got on MD for $40.

Only small complaint I can have with the Cutjack is that the detent could be slightly better, but it is still perfectly functional.
 
After spending half a day slicing paper to show my girlfriend what a sharp knife can do i then went out and spent half a day cutting tie wraps and scraping gaskets on my honda fourwheeler while replacing the stator and switching out wireing harness. Then after a week of daily use at work and at home i showed up to survivalist school with it in my pocket and while making projucts i noticed others having to really saw back and forth with their knives while i just barley touched excess cordage and it fell away, its like it was a magic wand.

I will say right now that the rat in AUS 8 is not even close to the Cutjack. This Cutjack even blows away my old Spyderco Military in S30V that i feel is an ok knife but to me S30V is overated.

Steel Will Cutjack, way better than i could have imanged.

PS. I live on a very big cattle farm, this knife see's lots of work.
 
I'm interested in getting a Cutjack Mini. Have followed this thread and was wondering how sharp it is out of the box?
I've several knives in D2 and know how hard they can be to sharpen. Would prefer one sharp out of the box and ready to go. I do see two mods I'll need to make: first file/grind off the jimping on the back of the handle (looks very uncomfortable) and then remove the pocket clip and file/sand the scale smoother.
Thanks
Rich
 
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Mine was very sharp out of the box. As a matter of fact, I've had it for 4 months now and all it has needed was a few swipes on a ceramic rod, or a stropping and it's good to go again, As for the jimping on the back. I don't feel it at all in hand. It's more aesthetic than anything else.
The clip? Yeah, that one can get annoying. I'm thinking of trying an epoxy to smooth out the surface, but I'm in no rush.
 
Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll just bend the pocket clip to loosen the grip a bit. Done that on several knives.
Rich
 
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Saw this knife in a magazine and liked it from that moment on, before it was released.
Had a chance to grab it just this last Friday in my local Canadian knife store.
Love the grinds on the blade. Even on both sides. Detent on mine is good. I don't mind its frn scales but imagine some aftermarket cf or g10 scales with nested liners to give it more rigidity. Someone please steal this idea.
Lock is done right on this one. Although liner is thin, If you put it at the very edge of lockface and apply pressure, its not getting pushed out. Proper geometry...

Some more shots to show off blade grinds.
https://imgur.com/a/1e05KbM
 
I have no complaints what so ever with the G-10 M390 Mini Cutjack. The gimping.... barely notice it. The G-10 is smooth enough and grippy. Love this knife! It was very sharp when I got it and I have touched it up a couple of times now which has taken just a few minutes on a diamond stone (DMT). The pocket clip is tight but it loosens up a little with time. Been carrying and using this knife every day since the beginning of October when I bought it. It pushed other knives to the side lines. That takes some doing for me actually mostly because I generally stay away from flippers.

The Benchmade Mini Presidio II is waiting in the wings to be carried. Handled this knife (manual knife) and instantly liked it. As of yet, it has not gotten carried over the Mini Cutjack.

I have only handled the D2 Cutjack in stores. It was sharp and seemed well made. I think the Italian M390 version is probably a better made knife.
 
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JamesofArc said:
After spending half a day slicing paper to show my girlfriend what a sharp knife can do i then went out and spent half a day cutting tie wraps and scraping gaskets on my honda fourwheeler while replacing the stator and switching out wireing harness. Then after a week of daily use at work and at home i showed up to survivalist school with it in my pocket and while making projucts i noticed others having to really saw back and forth with their knives while i just barley touched excess cordage and it fell away, its like it was a magic wand.

I will say right now that the rat in AUS 8 is not even close to the Cutjack. This Cutjack even blows away my old Spyderco Military in S30V that i feel is an ok knife but to me S30V is overated.

Steel Will Cutjack, way better than i could have imanged.

PS. I live on a very big cattle farm, this knife see's lots of work.
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Honestly, if you don't have diamonds or CBN you won't see S30V really shine. Even using diamonds to sharpen but traditional compounds to hone I had S30V get dull after a hard sneeze. Using all diamonds, I got it to cut more than it takes for AUS-8 to go from razor to dull, and it was still shaving (albeit not super well any more). It's weird how it performs like crap until you shape the vanandium carbides, and then you see why it's a super steel.

Before I honed with diamonds, I honestly thought S30V was a pretty garbage steel. I preferred even something like D2 to it, even though on most metrics it's supposed to be worse. After honing with diamonds, I can't believe how naive I was.
 
I relieved clip tension on my Mini Intrigue and it pockets easily with good retention and doesn't seem to be abrading my pocket.
 
I like the steel will cutjack. I happened to order it the other day. The pocket clip is a little tight.
I have one question, though, about honing a new knife, one that has been stropped or has some microconvexity to the bevel:
how many of you guys can recall more or less how long it takes to hone past the microconvexity on one of these? D2 steel, 18-22 degrees per side And i suppose the type of stone would be informative(at the moment im using a belgian blue stone or a coticule. Even a different knife in this scenario might be of some use. Thanks
 
Rich S said:
I'm interested in getting a Cutjack Mini. Have followed this thread and was wondering how sharp it is out of the box?
I've several knives in D2 and know how hard they can be to sharpen. Would prefer one sharp out of the box and ready to go. I do see two mods I'll need to make: first file/grind off the jimping on the back of the handle (looks very uncomfortable) and then remove the pocket clip and file/sand the scale smoother.
Thanks
Rich
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I got a Cutjack Mini three days ago, and am liking it. It took a pivot tension adjustment, a bit of oil in the pivot, and a couple of days breaking in to get it to deploy reliably. I was surprised to find the scales to be as grippy and comfy as they are.

The blade was nicely sharp out of the box. The jimping provides good traction all around, but the only area where it seems too rough is on the tip of the flipper tab. The scale edges behind the flipper tab are sharp, not enough to draw blood, but I'll likely take some sandpaper to them to round them a bit. I'm also thinking of putting an epoxy pad under the clip to make it easier to remove the knife from the pocket without the clip trying its best to bring the pocket along with it.
 
Good knife for the money, but as a lefty I have an issue with it. I tend to grip my knives tight, and if you do that lefthanded while trying to flip it, it prevents it from opening all the way as it has a fair bit of flex in the handle. Kinda like when you put to much pressure on a framelock lockbar. It doesn’t happen if I do it right handed.
 
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