Not another wish thread!

[hank_rearden]

i just want to put it in before it slips my mind. how 'bout a hard use field/camp folder in zdp 189? i'm still frustrated when it comes to sharpening the brute but the thing about it is stays sharp longer than any blade steel i own. it's a sharpen-at-home-and-take-it-out tool. and i'm not worried about staining. i can maintain a bare carbon steel blade in the field without much fuzz.

available folders in zdp are mainly EDC-slicers, IMHO, although the stretch comes close to what i have in mind. but i'm not so impressed with the thickness of the liners, the size of the pivots, and the blade grind. i reckon a thicker spine and a closer flat grind to the edge, along with a reinforced/thickened point.

what say you?

 

[nccole]

Too brittle imo. ZDP belongs on slicers, not hard use type knives. M4, 3V sounds good.

 

[hank_rearden]

i was thinking of that too. but i put my endura to a lot of cutting (meat-bone) and whittling wood and it did fine at 18dps. it gets dull, sure, but a lot longer than other steels i own (don't have s90v and m390, and i won't have any if they keep pricing them the way they do.) now i have my zdp endura at 10 dps so it's mainly for slicing.

 

[nccole]

i was thinking of that too. but i put my endura to a lot of cutting (meat-bone) and whittling wood and it did fine at 18dps. it gets dull, sure, but a lot longer than other steels i own (don't have s90v and m390, and i won't have any if they keep pricing them the way they do.) now i have my zdp endura at 10 dps so it's mainly for slicing.

That sounds about right with angles and what you are doing. I see the design intent of ZDP-189 as narrow, and focused on slicing, so I doubt any makers outside a custom maker doing what a particular customer wants will ever design a knife quite like you described.