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Liveitloud

Liveitloud

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So I grabbed a Persistence about a month ago and what a great little knife. I tend to be kinda rough on knives I have no real investment in, so this one has been beat on solid for 30 days. I gotta say, it has held up really well. The edge is still scary sharp and it looks like it can really take punishment.

When I first got it, it was a bit stiff opening and closing. Instead of adjusting the pivot, I just opened and closed in a lot. Loosened it right up. Now I can flick it open with my thumb nail with little effort.

For the 28.00 price tag you really can't beat this knife. Lot of cutting area, full flat ground blade and just an overall good economical knife that wants to work.

The only complaint I have is when I changed the clip over to lefty, now the tops of the screws are a bit rough from the cheap screws I guess.

30 day chore list:

Dropped twice

Cut lots of zip ties

Cut boxes and tape

Hacked some small limbs off a tree in the yard

Cut a silicone seal out of an area in a bathroom

Cut up a bunch of veggies and a few steaks

Friend picked it up and (yeah, I know, cringe now please) slammed it tip down into the top of the work bench in the garage.

Have heard some stuff about the Cr13Mov not holding an edge well but this knife has really taken some abuse and it still slices through paper like butter. No drag at all.

I've got so many higher end Spyderco knives that see weekend use and cost 5 times the price of this knife but you really can't go wrong with the Persistence for general all around use.

Just wanted to give it some props!
 
Liveitloud said:
30 day chore list:

Dropped twice

Cut lots of zip ties

Cut boxes and tape

Hacked some small limbs off a tree in the yard
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Seriously? You haven't sharpened it since, and you say after 30 days of activities including these that it is still scary sharp?

See, I don't know what other peoples' standards are... But ZDP-189 isn't still "scary sharp" to me after just a couple of boxes. I don't think every batch of steel I've ever gotten (including many VG-10 knives, ZDP-189, S30V, ...) was crappy, yet it didn't stay "scary sharp" after stuff like that lol
 
I have my tenacious living in my LFP. I've been waiting for my persistence for more than 2 months now. If it's the little brother of the tenacious and f&f and quality is consistent, I'd for sure be quite happy. But yes, my Tenacious has had frequent touch up cutting jerky on a plastic cutting board.
 
The Persistence is hard to beat for the performance/price factor. Great little knife!!!
 
Great workhorse this knife has turned out to be :thumbup::thumbup:.
 
THG, its allabout what someone believes sharpness to be. Factory knives are razor sharp to some while you and me may view them as butter knives. I see this all the time when sharpening others knives.

I had people hand me knives and say "its sharp" and then I lay my finger on the blade, run it up & down as they watch in awe as the blade does nothing. Its for the same reasons when you go to you friends house and ask for a kitchen knife and have a hard time telling edge from spine, you know those knives you never need to sharpen ;)

To the op, this is nothing against you or others. Take a look at your edge under bright light, you may find things you did not know were there.
 
knifenut1013 said:
THG, its allabout what someone believes sharpness to be. Factory knives are razor sharp to some while you and me may view them as butter knives. I see this all the time when sharpening others knives.

I had people hand me knives and say "its sharp" and then I lay my finger on the blade, run it up & down as they watch in awe as the blade does nothing. Its for the same reasons when you go to you friends house and ask for a kitchen knife and have a hard time telling edge from spine, you know those knives you never need to sharpen ;)

To the op, this is nothing against you or others. Take a look at your edge under bright light, you may find things you did not know were there.
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None taken at all. Perhaps scary wasn't the best use of words but the knife still has a really good edge on it. It doesn't shave the hair on my arm but it still cuts really well. I just expected this particular steel to dull quicker from what I had read about it. Very happy with the knife for what it is. :)
 
I don't own a perisitence or a Tenacious, but I have held one. I gifted one to my father in law about 2 months ago. The knife out of the box was really sharp. I spoke with him last week and he said the knife was holding its edge very well, despite some ranch/farm work.
 
Cool :thumbup:

I took mine on some hikes, and recently on a ten day hike on the scottish west highland way. It really needed some sharpening, but just a light field touchup on a dmt diafold to get it back to shaving.
I really liked it, good clip on it, nice shape and can't beat it for the price.

I'm posting a pic in another thread with a small review.
 
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