Random Thought Thread

BIGDORK said:
Yes!
I haven't strayed from D3V since finding CPK but, I would do it for Nathanized Cruwear
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Pretty much the same in here Jim, although I do own a couple / few old-school pieces in Nathan optimized 3V (pre delta), Elmax and 4V. I regret letting go of Nathan's D2 / PSF27 but my intel indicates that they are in very good hands ;)
 
Alone said:
Straight-out of the files of, "You might be a Redneck if"...


1) Every. Single. One. of the cubes in your ice trays has a bit of Copenhagen in it (*because you're filling 'em while you're drunk), and...

2) You still use ice trays.
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Since this IS a sub on a knife forum; how many of you busted out laughing when you first heard, "If you have bald patches on your arms and legs from testing the edges of your knives after sharpening them, you might be a redneck"?

I know I cracked up hard at that one, because I remember those exact comments from friends, all the way back in HS, while chowing down in the cafeteria, "Been sharpening your knives again, eh?". "Yep, when you see no hair on his forearms, you know he's been sharpening his knives". 🤣🤣🤣
 
Alone said:
I don't know if you've heard, but Alissa Heinerscheid, the former VP of Marketing for Anheuser-Busch. just tanked one of the company's must successful brands and cost the company million$. She graduated from Harvard, and has a post-graduate degree from Wharton Business School...arguably one of the most prestigious and expensive "business" educations that money can buy.

You know what she took from all that education? Instead of establishing an expertise in continuing to make BILLIONS off of an already-successful brand, her million-dollar education/indoctrination taught her to go the way of appealing to the fringe...one particular group that represents less than 1% of the population...and to offend the MILLIONS of established Customers of the extremely successful brand she was hired to promote.
[RANT OFF]
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I'm a glass half full kind of guy. Saint Heinerscheid just save millions from drinking crappy beer. In a very efficient and effective way.

😇
 
The Amazing Virginian said:
Not being a steel genius, Cruwear seems a lot like 3V to me. Why would one switch from D3V to Cruwear? What would be the advantage(s)?
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Cruwear is similar (I have nothing to test toughness since all my cruwear is in folders but I'm sure D3V will be tougher in similar blades)

They both are easy to sharpen , I think Cruwear might hold a fine edge a little longer ( but I do not have any similar blades in both to honestly make an even comparison)

I cut a lot of thin material all day long and something that holds a fine edge for a good amount of time, can take accidental light hits on metal and touch up easy make Cruwear a win for me on lighter cutting tasks
(This is also why I stay excited for a CPK folder)

Now that I carry A DEK1 with a smaller blade everyday, I can keep the edge on my folder very sharp and let my DEK1 do any heavier cutting
 
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Retired UPS Driver said:
I’ll up you one.

Last May the cat and I were rudely woken up 4am ish by a mad flying ruckus going on in the bedroom. She goes into full attack mode in the dark and my immediate thought was it was a bird, but it was way too early yet.

Shook my head and eyes awake and realized it was a bat, just by the sound of its wings and high pitch echo location it was making.

Grabbed a short handled fish net and caught him mid air as he was flying in circles looking for an escape route away from the cat.

The Glock would have been overkill and a poor choice, so the UF2 was right there and put into action. A butt end thump to the brain stem ended it instantly.

Felt sorry for the little guy, but in the house, especially in the bedroom, is off limits, no exceptions.

Thought about turning him in for rabies testing, but he didn’t bite us and no fluids were leaked out.

Waited till after sunrise & breakfast for a picture, then buried him in the garden.

Never did figure out how he got in.

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yoko said:
Cruwear is similar (I have nothing to test toughness since all my cruwear is in folders but I'm sure D3V will be tougher in similar blades)

They both are easy to sharpen , I think Cruwear might hold a fine a a little longer ( but I do not have any similar blades in both to honestly make an even comparison)

I cut a lot of thin material all day long and something that holds a fine edge for a good amount of time, can take accidental light hits on metal and touch up easy make Cruwear a win for me on lighter cutting tasks
(This is also why I stay excited for a CPK folder)

Now that I carry A DEK1 with a smaller blade everyday, I can keep the edge on my folder very sharp and let my DEK1 do any heavier cutting
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Yup. CPM cruwear isn't as tough as 3v, but has more abrasion and corrosion resistance. It's not actually stainless, just closer to it than 3v.
Before magnacut, cruwear/z-wear was really gaining a following because of how well its properties were balanced.

I'm a huge fan. A cruwear blade done right is tough, holds a good edge, is pretty corrosion resistant, and it's fairly easy to sharpen. It will take a screaming sharp edge.
It can be run pretty hard due to its high toughness and still have good edge stability.
If heat treated right, the blade will roll instead of chip. This makes stropping a great option for maintenance, which it responds to extremely well.
One of my favorite blade steels for sure.
 
Cruwear will not have better corrosion resistance than Delta 3V

Delta 3V is not like regular 3v. There is much more free chrome. Enough that it is practically stainless. I have a blade that I threw in a stump a long time ago and it doesn't have a speck of rust on it.

Our Cruwear will have less free Chrome because it has higher carbon that's going to compete for some of that Chrome.

The higher carbon also makes it more susceptible to retained austinite which limits how much carbon I can put into solution which ties my hands with aust temp much more so than 3V (if using a low temp tweak). Those knives in the picture above, they all rockwelled about the same. The one on top has RA. The one on the bottom is an industry standard control exhibiting the typical crumbly mushy edge of the high temp. The one in the middle is nicely optimized. This optimization is not just time and temp, there are other important variables.

Although Delta 3V is quite tough, I have not been able to coax good edge stability out of it at higher hardnesses. Cruwear should give me another point or two anyway and actually be tougher than 3V would be at that hardness.

We race 4V at 64 regularly. It has low corrosion resistance though. But it has very superior edge stability for a complex steel.

We're in pursuit of better edge retention in a durable knife. That has always been the focus. And we understand that edge retention is not the same thing as wear resistance. At least not how it is measured in industry, which has little to do with a normal cutting tool. Edge stability is key and a strong uniform microstructure wins the day over secondary carbide volume fraction. Obviously.
 
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yoko said:
Cruwear is similar (I have nothing to test toughness since all my cruwear is in folders but I'm sure D3V will be tougher in similar blades)

They both are easy to sharpen , I think Cruwear might hold a fine edge a little longer ( but I do not have any similar blades in both to honestly make an even comparison)

I cut a lot of thin material all day long and something that holds a fine edge for a good amount of time, can take accidental light hits on metal and touch up easy make Cruwear a win for me on lighter cutting tasks
(This is also why I stay excited for a CPK folder)

Now that I carry A DEK1 with a smaller blade everyday, I can keep the edge on my folder very sharp and let my DEK1 do any heavier cutting
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For about a year I carried my Benchmade Shootout in Cruwear for the heavier cutting, and a small Sebenza 31 or Spartan SHF and whatever else was in my front pocket got to stay very sharp. It took a year of daily use before the Cruwear needed to be sharpened, and and since I had an offer to buy the Shootout (and I had 3 spares) I sold it and saved the time I'd need to sharpen it.

It's nice to have a pair to split the work load, and both stay sharper for longer; and if the Cruwear blade on the shootout was getting dull the blade was still thin enough to tear through cardboard boxes and plastic as needed. Stropping did a good job bringing it back when the edges would roll. I hadn't planned to sell it rather than sharpening it, but some people will buy a new Omega or Rolex, and then sell it for a newer model when it's time for the 5-7 year service, and this was almost like that.
 
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