One piece treated by Paul Bos

[rick melear]

A number of years ago some folks mentioned sending their one piece blades to Paul Bos to having them heat treated to 61 RC. I still have a number of one piece knives and have thought about having a Sable III done by Bos. Hope this doesn't break any forum rules but wonderd if anyone has any feed back or has done such

 

[unit]

I have nothing to advise other than to ask why?

If the knife does not suit your needs as is, I would assume you could sell it for more than enough to have a custom knife built that will. Honestly, there are some pretty nice advances in metallurgy out there, why ruin the collector value of a nice piece in effort to bump it a small step toward the latest technology? Sorry if this bothers you, it's just my opinion, and YOUR knife

 

[nyefmaker]

People read too much into RC numbers. Harder is more brittle, hence taking away from what the knife is designed for. I say use it and enjoy it at the RC CRK made it too. He made these knives for years and years and the only ones any of us ever saw broken was when some idiot put it in a vice and hit it with a sledge hammer. Chris's video shows him standing on the knife pounded into a tree and jumping on it. That RC is fine and dandy. But like "unit" stated, its your knife and can do what you like with it. If there is not lots of info about this out there, its for good reason. It was not needed.

 

[PNWhovian]

I hadn't heard of that being done but then again I had a Shadow IV for years and I never had any issues with it. Even took it on two deployments and it performed flawlessly.
If you do have it done do you have any way to measure any performance differences besides how it 'feels'? I'd be interested to know if it does make a difference and how?

 

[Scott Dog]

Wouldn't a fixed blade at 61 be way too brittle? I mean Chris has specific reasons for a lower hardness on fixed blades. If it worked better at 61 that's the way he would have made it.

 

[laizhekezhui]

People read too much into RC numbers. Harder is more brittle, hence taking away from what the knife is designed for. I say use it and enjoy it at the RC CRK made it too. He made these knives for years and years and the only ones any of us ever saw broken was when some idiot put it in a vice and hit it with a sledge hammer. Chris's video shows him standing on the knife pounded into a tree and jumping on it. That RC is fine and dandy. But like "unit" stated, its your knife and can do what you like with it. If there is not lots of info about this out there, its for good reason. It was not needed.

I can't agree with you any more.