PM2 steel flavors

PM2 Steels

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I'm not a steel expert but whatever is easiest to sharpen and won't chip when I use a knife to pry bark off trees.
 
campandtravel said:
I'm not a steel expert but whatever is easiest to sharpen and won't chip when I use a knife to pry bark off trees.
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None of these steels are for your use case (I saw your thread) IMHO. Okay Elmax is.
14c28n is the toughest budget steel and it is easy to sharpen in the field. But I suggest a full tang fixed blade (eg Ruike Hornet), not a folder like a PM2. I maintain my Hornet with a DC4 pocket stone, they both live in my backpack, fwiw.
 
kobold said:
None of these steels are for your use case (I saw your thread) IMHO.
14c28n is the toughest budget steel and it is easy to sharpen in the field. But I suggest a full tang fixed blade (eg Ruike Hornet), not a folder like a PM2. I maintain my Hornet with a DC4 pocket stone, they both live in my backpack, fwiw.
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Yes, these steels are best for machenery and pocketknife fine blades, not banging against wood with all your might! Well hardened 12c27, 14c28, 1075, 1095 will all do the trick way before I'd let 8" of Maxamet (Why would that exist? Kitchen knife? Dagger?) fly to the wood.
Even a Mora Companion Heavy Duty, while not full tang, is more than enough for the tasks he speaks of.
 
kobold said:
None of these steels are for your use case (I saw your thread) IMHO. Okay Elmax is.
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Yeah I think that's right. Looks to me like Spyderco is really appealing to the weekend warrior crowd. People who have a diamond sharpener at home, etc.

It's too bad because the construction is very good, mostly of the lock, and I like how it feels in my big hand.

kobold said:
But I suggest a full tang fixed blade (eg Ruike Hornet), not a folder like a PM2. I maintain my Hornet with a DC4 pocket stone, they both live in my backpack, fwiw.
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Not much but thanks.
Hashishiin said:
Well hardened 12c27, 14c28, 1075, 1095 will all do the trick
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I agree. I would love a 1095 Para 2. I don't know what the Opinel #8 uses but it's great. I use it 98% of the time. But I don't want to rely on it not folding/breaking and be in the woods without a knife.
Hashishiin said:
Even a Mora Companion Heavy Duty, while not full tang, is more than enough for the tasks he speaks of.
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Haha no. Spend six weeks in the CO forests with no resupply and see if you feel the same about that.

Anyway, I guess my answer is: Para 2 in 1095! Any steel that your grandfather would have been able to work with. I have no uses for these steels that require special tools to work with.
 
campandtravel said:
I agree. I would love a 1095 Para 2. I don't know what the Opinel #8 uses but it's great. I use it 98% of the time. But I don't want to rely on it not folding/breaking and be in the woods without a knife.

Haha no. Spend six weeks in the CO forests with no resupply and see if you feel the same about that.

Anyway, I guess my answer is: Para 2 in 1095! Any steel that your grandfather would have been able to work with. I have no uses for these steels that require special tools to work with.
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Opinel 8 uses 12c27 and Mora Kansbol uses 14c28n. These steels to me are stainless equivs to 1075, 95, tough steels. I think you are under-estimating Mora. It requires no special tools to work with, it is carbon or stainless steel, damn fine steel at that. Your grandfather would have been more than happy with a Mora.
I don't know who you are that you think Mora uses some Elmaxamelto super steel

Come on everyone knows you can't craft a Bush without at least 30 CPM's at a time.
 
Hashishiin said:
Opinel 8 uses 12c27 and Mora Kansbol uses 14c28n. These steels to me are stainless equivs to 1075, 95, tough steels. I think you are under-estimating Mora. It requires no special tools to work with, it is carbon or stainless steel, damn fine steel at that. Your grandfather would have been more than happy with a Mora.
I don't know who you are that you think Mora uses some Elmaxamelto super steel
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I've had a Companion and a Garberg. I traded the companion for not having to carry that stupid thing anymore, and I traded the Garberg for an Opinel. Great trades.

Who the fuck said that More uses super steel?
 
campandtravel said:
I've had a Companion and a Garberg. I traded the companion for not having to carry that stupid thing anymore, and I traded the Garberg for an Opinel. Great trades.

Who the fuck said that More uses super steel?
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Well, you were ragging on Mora and said you have no use for modern steel right in repsonse to my comment, also you were singing Opinel's praises when they use the exact same stainless as Mora, sometimes a better one. Like I said, 14c28n on the Garberg, in what way is that insufficient? It's equivalent or better than Opinel. Also, it is way harder to carve wood with an Opinel than a Mora, even one not purpose-built for wood-carving.

Is it the tang? Is it the handle? What is it that makes you laugh at the idea of a Mora? You gave no reasons. The tang is exceptionally strong. You seem so haughty and angry, almost, in your putting down of Mora, like Morakniv personally angered you. Just a hint, I have heard mods here look down on swearing, so, you know, fyi. I fin
 
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campandtravel said:
You just keep failing to actually read what I write.

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Well then why don't you explain yourself? You sing Opinel's praises, yet bash Mora, who uses the same steel, only difference is I could stick some Moras in a tree, stand on them, pull it out and have it be fine. WHY don't you like Mora? You have not written anything about it, my guy. You laughed at my suggestion and basically said "yeah right" and then when I asked why, you said you sold your sucky Moras.

So why don't you say something for me to fail to understand? I understand you can take bark off of a tree with a Mora.

About the swearing and your eye-roll, yeah, it is a little lame, but it keeps the forums a more intelligent and upscale place where people aren't constantly replacing conversation with "fuck shit fuck shit", besides, when you start cussing at someone, it is just impolite. The forum mods don't like that. I almost swore when I was writing, thinking kind of angrily how you'd said nothing about WHY Mora is bad, but even though I'd just be swearing, not at you, I'd come off more aggressively. I can express myself better'n that.
 
How about let's keep the language family friendly out of respect for both Sal and company, as well as our fellow members. Then we can actually discuss knives without issuing warnings or penalties.

Thanks in advance.
 
Vanax. Make it happen. Bet it'll sell out in under 5m, even with factory+dealer markup.
 
I am totally lost. In a thread that discusses Spyderco PM2, one of the greatest folding knives ever made, by a great company, some people had to fill it with back and forth jabs over mora or opinal or whatever. I am sure they also cut but come on man.
 
Have a user in S30V and just acquired one in 20CV. Currently on the hunt for M390 & 204-P models.
 
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