Order of KAI Official Hang Out; Good Times & Joyous Knives

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This Beast...SMF DigiCamo CC
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Two deals on the exchange I am still kicking myself over that I missed.

Zero Tolerance 0302- $85 bucks.

NIB Kershaw Golden Leek- $50 bucks.

Both last summer. Why did I have to sit there like an idiot and not jump? I literally could have had both.
 
Steel130 said:
Anytime. If you are bored here is a good read from Zknives. I think it is posted over in Maintenance Tinkering and Embellishment too. Joe Talmadge is the author.

That doesn't mean that significant performance advantages can't be had by choosing the right steel for the job. In fact, choosing a steel can significantly impact the performance of a knife. But, to really bring out the performance of a particular steel, you need to take advantage of the better steel in your sharpening plan. If a weak, brittle steel can perform the job when sharpened at 25-degrees-per-side, a strong, tough steel might give you some marginal performance improvements if it, too, is sharpened at 25-degrees-per-side. However, to really bring out the performance of the better steel, trying bringing it down to 20-degrees per side, or less. The advantage of the better steel is that it is strong and tough enough to hold up with a small edge angle -- and smaller edge angles radically out-perform bigger edge angles. It's easy to get a 10-to-1 perform advantage for certain cutting jobs by cutting 5 degrees off your sharpening angle.

This leads to the general rule:
To really see the advantages of a better steel, exploit that steel in your sharpening program. If you're going to sharpen all your knives at the same angle regardless of steel, you might de-emphasize steel choice somewhat.

On the internet, I'll often see someone posting about wanting to upgrade from their ATS-34 folder to one that has S30V, and then in a different post, declare that they sharpen all their knives at 20° per-side. Why spend all that extra money for S30V, just to get some marginal wear resistance advantages but no other performance advantages? If that same user would take advantage of S30V's superior toughness and drop the edge angle to 15° per-side, they would see a large leap in cutting performance, along with the extra wear resistance. Because of choosing the right sharpening angle, the more expensive S30V knife now gives an impressive return on investment. *Now* you can see what all the fuss is about!
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That was quite interesting. Thanks man:)
 
Its there.. Its Silver for some reason. From what I hear a CC SMF plus the Camo blade is a very Rare Combo
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greeenie said:
Am i crazy or is stuff just not selling this month like last month
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I have found with selling, weekends seem to be the best. Particularly friday...Payday. Alright everyone, I am out. Going off to dream about custom fixed blades I have on order :D. Been on a weird fixed blade kick.
 
I'm hitting the bed everyone! I've fallen asleep 5 times with 30 second naps. Wish me luck with a snow day tomorrow.
 
Steel130 said:
I have found with selling, weekends seem to be the best. Particularly friday...Payday. Alright everyone, I am out. Going off to dream about custom fixed blades I have on order :D. Been on a weird fixed blade kick.
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Good to know, thanks!
 
I've also found the weekends to be the best time to list, primarily on Friday. During the holidays though, it was easy to sell almost anything. Now...ugh, people are getting wiser with their money. :confused:
 
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