So I fell in love

[Joshd24]

I took the advice of several members to purchase several cheaper knives, i.e. Kershaw leek, Spyderco tenacious, kershaw filter, and had a wonderful member loan me a ZT (awesome blade). I had about $130 in all
Of them...once I bought that tenacious my mind had been changed forever to Spyderco. I previously wanted a flipper but that ended with the tenacious and after reading many reviews and another post on which blade steel I purchased the PM2...would not have even possible Without the members here and Blade forum !!! Much love to you guys

Ha! You're following an unending trail of Spyderco's now. I did the same thing, Tenacious to PM2. Probably the best direction I could have went. You should thoroughly enjoy the journey.

Glad to hear you're using it too, it took me like a month or two until I really started using my PM2 the way it was meant for.

 

[lieferung]

That's the fun thing about this hobby, your tastes can change and you can gravitate towards one maker for a long time, maybe even stay there, or eventually move to something new.

I got on a Spyderco binge for a while (well, you never really get off ), the Tenacious was one of my early ones. Great solid knife, having owned both that and a PM2 it's almost like the poor man's version (not a bad thing!).

 

[BD_01]

I'm actually still too easy on my PM2, and I want to start pushing it a little bit. When you say you started using the PM2 the way it was meant to be used, what do you mean? What's the spectrum of tasks for which you'll use this great knife?

I just finished a two week road trip/camping/trecking trip and used my burple PM2 plenty! Fishing, chopping small tree branches (not batoning), zip ties, food prep, general camp chores, etc. It worked wonderfully.

Needs a well deserved sharpening at this point--I'll see how a stropping does first.



ETA: Sharpmaker brought it back to near-screaming sharp pretty easily (but I'd previously reprofiled it to a 17.5 convex edge via WSKO).

 

[sabre cat]

.... If you find, like I did, that you need a grunt user, don't underestimate the benefit of a Swiss Army knife companion to one of your cooler blade-only knives. A SAK will keep you out of trouble with your steel.

Just be careful because SAK buying is just as addictive!

Yes they are. I own more SAKs than any other type of knife and they hardly ever get carried.

 

[cchu518]

Don't get the blurple. You will need to pick up dmt guides to sharpen it. A whole different level of sharpening. The easier to sharpen steels will be s30v and S35v. I've had both and still have the S35v. It's a fine, fine do it all in one knife. Of course one can never have enough edc's. I'm a huge fan of the manix 2 lw, native lw and milli as well.

 

[fivesense]

Don't get the blurple. You will need to pick up dmt guides to sharpen it. A whole different level of sharpening. The easier to sharpen steels will be s30v and S35v. I've had both and still have the S35v. It's a fine, fine do it all in one knife. Of course one can never have enough edc's. I'm a huge fan of the manix 2 lw, native lw and milli as well.

Regular Sharpmaker rods will handle the S110V, but it takes a lot of time and patience. I got the diamond rods for that reason. Whatever you do, keep the blade in decent shape and sharpening will be easier.