Poll: CPK Dream Knife

What type of CPK would you be most excited about?

  • 5" Dagger Boot Knife

    Votes: 21 21.2%

  • 18" Machete

    Votes: 20 20.2%

  • 9" Shiv Classic

    Votes: 11 11.1%

  • 9" Chefs knife, thick enough to split light wood, thin enough to peel fruit

    Votes: 18 18.2%

  • Folding knife

    Votes: 44 44.4%

  • 20" CPK Notta-Katana

    Votes: 13 13.1%

  • 9" Chefs knife super thin edge

    Votes: 20 20.2%

  • 12" Machete

    Votes: 10 10.1%

  • 9" Rambo knife, saw on the back

    Votes: 12 12.1%

  • 12" American Style Kukri

    Votes: 16 16.2%
  • Total voters
    99
murat1983 said:
Further to what you said, how valuable the wear resistance is to a machete? Edge deformation resistance is indeed valuable and as you suggested it is difficult to beat a simple 10X series steel in that unless you bring the hardness up to 58-59 and prevent the edge roll which is common on soft machetes? If you have time to work the heat treatment out of CPM 1V (if you want to stick to CPM range) or 8670, they would be good candidates for this application. Working on CPM1V would pay off in long run as I think it might be valuable for larger chopping oriented knives.
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Doesn't have the edge stability
 
None of those options are particularly high priorities for me, though of course a number of them would certainly be fun to play around with. If I'm being practical about what I would really use and carry, it would be an EDC2 and a MC.
 
tokerblue said:
Gladius. :oops:

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Nice snotta gladius
 
The Chef's Knives and Machetes for me.

As far as the folder goes, I'm a Spyderco folder guy through and through. A collab with Spyderco where Spyderco takes an existing folder and enhances it with a NTM special Delta 3V protocol treated blade would get all my monies. I'm partial to the Endela myself, but something like a Military, Manix XL, Stretch XL, Endura, etc. would also get my juices flowing.
 
Crazy more than twice as many votes for folding knives than any other in the list. Personally I'm not that excited about it because everyone makes one, there's tons of good ones, many with great steels, then you have the benchmade axis lock, which lets be honest, it's the best! ...and sort of cheap! 😁 .....But that's why I find survey's interesting, you get surprising results.

There was some great ideas in the thread for stuff not put in the poll, maybe next week!
 
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Mark4444 said:
Crazy more than twice as many votes for folding knives than any other in the list. Personally I'm not that excited about it because everyone makes one, there's tons of good ones, many with great steels, then you have the benchmade axis lock, which lets be honest, it's the best! ...and sort of cheap! 😁 .....But that's why I find survey's interesting, you get surprising results.

There was some great ideas in the thread for stuff not put in the poll, maybe next week!
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Most of the production folders (at least the ones I had) other than the slip joints variants are ground thick. If one wants a thin ground knife with an optimal heat treat, custom folders are way to go. But they are expensive. This is where CPK comes in (or used to come in?). CPK is (was?) known to provide very good quality/performance to price ratio. So, it is not surprising people are excited about CPK folder. I will consider buying one if the price is right for me. But regardless, CPK would sell them whatever price they put on them.
 
patrickguignot said:
What about AEB-L steel? I have a 18" Machete in AEB-L 59HRC from Jesse Jarosz and there was zero issue with edge stability.
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Yeah, AEBL has good edge stability. So does any other steel that I would want to work with. That isn't the problem.
 
madcap_magician said:
I feel like the odd man out in not really caring about folders. The market is full of good folders.
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I’m not jumping into the fire just yet either, I have a feeling it’s going to be a little on the large, thick and unbreakable side of the spectrum. Nate does love his Sebenza 21 though so I could be wrong!

(the frenzy the sales will bring has me even less enthused as well)
 
madcap_magician said:
I feel like the odd man out in not really caring about folders. The market is full of good folders.
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000Robert said:
But not CPK folders.
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CPK sets the bar so high with fixed blades that I would hope that no folder is released until its development reaches the stage of being truly awesome and unparalleled.
 
Jsega51 said:
I’m not jumping into the fire just yet either, I have a feeling it’s going to be a little on the large, thick and unbreakable side of the spectrum. Nate does love his Sebenza 21 though so I could be wrong!

(the frenzy the sales will bring has me even less enthused as well)
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Also I mean, I love Nathan and I trust him, but I am so deep in the hole for knife money I am gonna have to start picking and choosing what to get and accept I can't catch them all.

I have $2,094.00 in partially paid AIM Industrial invoices on more than $4,200 of pending-delivery knives. 😬
 
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