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I received Spyderco Atlantic Salt with Krein Regrind through a passaround here on BladeForums and thought I'd post a quick review.
My first thought was that it was really, really, light and might be perfect for those times when light weight is important, but you still want a bigger blade. According to my postal scale, my Endura 4 with the Emerson Opener weighs 3.6 ounces, my factory version Atlantic Salt weighs 3.0 ounces and the Krein Regrind version weighs just 2.6 ounces (only .1 ounces more than my Spyderco Native.)
Much of the light weight comes from the Salt's lack of skeletonized liners (as compared to the Endura). I also suspect that H1 steel is lighter than VG-10, though I can't prove it. Still more weight came off of the blade in the regrind process. Taking the factory saber grind down to a (really skillfully done) full flat grind has really thinned out the blade. The spine near the tip is less than half the width of the original and I can flex the blade a little, where I can't do that at all with the factory grind. I didn't want to push the flexing too far, lest I break a blade that's not mine, but it would be something to watch in the field.
The blade wasn't quite shaving sharp when I got it, but a dozen or so passes on the white SharpMaker stones at 30 degrees brought it back to shaving immediately. The edge is a little sharper near the tip and middle than toward handle. My conclusion after a few hours a some light cutting is that while this one heck of a slicer, it may be a little too thin now for the proverbial "hard use." We often hear that about the Spyderco Military -- especially the tip -- but it is even more pronounced here.
My first thought was that it was really, really, light and might be perfect for those times when light weight is important, but you still want a bigger blade. According to my postal scale, my Endura 4 with the Emerson Opener weighs 3.6 ounces, my factory version Atlantic Salt weighs 3.0 ounces and the Krein Regrind version weighs just 2.6 ounces (only .1 ounces more than my Spyderco Native.)
Much of the light weight comes from the Salt's lack of skeletonized liners (as compared to the Endura). I also suspect that H1 steel is lighter than VG-10, though I can't prove it. Still more weight came off of the blade in the regrind process. Taking the factory saber grind down to a (really skillfully done) full flat grind has really thinned out the blade. The spine near the tip is less than half the width of the original and I can flex the blade a little, where I can't do that at all with the factory grind. I didn't want to push the flexing too far, lest I break a blade that's not mine, but it would be something to watch in the field.
The blade wasn't quite shaving sharp when I got it, but a dozen or so passes on the white SharpMaker stones at 30 degrees brought it back to shaving immediately. The edge is a little sharper near the tip and middle than toward handle. My conclusion after a few hours a some light cutting is that while this one heck of a slicer, it may be a little too thin now for the proverbial "hard use." We often hear that about the Spyderco Military -- especially the tip -- but it is even more pronounced here.
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