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I EDCed my Cold Steel AD-10 today because I knew I would be doing heavy duty work. Today, I used my Cold Steel AD-10 in a saltwater application cutting heavy Kevlar re-enforced cable jacketing. With the Cold Steel AD-10, I can easily cut through kevlar re-enforced cable jacketing by pressing and rocking only. No slicing is necessary: this gives me the control I need to cut to the correct depth. I've been doing this for a while now with my Cold Steel AD-10. After repeated radial and axial cuts through thick 14 mm cable jacket, the blade shows no perceivable dulling and there are no markings or wear on the blade. The last cuts are as easy and precise as the first. Cuts through copper conductors are also quick and clean. Cheaper knives invariably fail by quickly losing their edge in this application. The advantage of having a Cold Steel AD-10 become clear right away when doing this kind of work.
 
Heffeb said:
I EDCed my Cold Steel AD-10 today because I knew I would be doing heavy duty work. Today, I used my Cold Steel AD-10 in a saltwater application cutting heavy Kevlar re-enforced cable jacketing. With the Cold Steel AD-10, I can easily cut through kevlar re-enforced cable jacketing by pressing and rocking only. No slicing is necessary: this gives me the control I need to cut to the correct depth. I've been doing this for a while now with my Cold Steel AD-10. After repeated radial and axial cuts through thick 14 mm cable jacket, the blade shows no perceivable dulling and there are no markings or wear on the blade. The last cuts are as easy and precise as the first. Cuts through copper conductors are also quick and clean. Cheaper knives invariably fail by quickly losing their edge in this application. The advantage of having a Cold Steel AD-10 become clear right away when doing this kind of work.
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Do you work for Cold Steel?
 
Heffeb said:
I EDCed my Cold Steel AD-10 today because I knew I would be doing heavy duty work. Today, I used my Cold Steel AD-10 in a saltwater application cutting heavy Kevlar re-enforced cable jacketing. With the Cold Steel AD-10, I can easily cut through kevlar re-enforced cable jacketing by pressing and rocking only. No slicing is necessary: this gives me the control I need to cut to the correct depth. I've been doing this for a while now with my Cold Steel AD-10. After repeated radial and axial cuts through thick 14 mm cable jacket, the blade shows no perceivable dulling and there are no markings or wear on the blade. The last cuts are as easy and precise as the first. Cuts through copper conductors are also quick and clean. Cheaper knives invariably fail by quickly losing their edge in this application. The advantage of having a Cold Steel AD-10 become clear right away when doing this kind of work.
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What knife were you using?
 
David Mary said:
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Interesting serrations, David. Did you do them yourself? I suspect that would work better than a "Spydie Edge", since it should be easy to sharpen each entire gullet. With conventional triple-point serration, you have to be careful to sharpen the sides of the gullets, otherwise the serrations snag more than they cut, as I have found with several fully-serrated Spyderco knives.
 
Another Shepherd said:
Interesting serrations, David. Did you do them yourself?
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Thank you kindly. Yes I did. I just tried them for the first time within the past couple weeks, and I'm quite please with the results of this particular configuration. Sharp, aggressive, and as you said, easy to sharpen. I've made them so far on MagnaCut, AEB-L, 8CR13MoV, and what I believe to be 420 (old kitchen knives, which were the first things I tried them on). I expect to do more as time goes on. I hope to make myself a serrated Prevail for EDC at some point.
 
strategy9 said:
Opened some packages at work, but in the process of putting stuff away I came across this gem in one of our cabinets
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I thought the grey fluke was a fluke, but sure enough, an original model 77, released in 1983, and still getting calibrated and working great.
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Ugly’s…. nice memory, & a masterful resource for its size
 
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