Spyderco H1

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I have a Spyderco Salt coming my way in about a week. What I would like to ask is: What is your sharpening experience on this steel and how is it for holding an edge under reqular EDC carrying?

Thanks in advance,
CIAO
Ron
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It takes an excellent edge with very little effort. This is one of its major advantages. It is very fine "grained" if you can speak of grains in a precipitation hardening steel. It is a pleasure to touch up an it gets very, very sharp. It is not very abrasion resistant, which is part of the reason why it is so easy to touch up, but very hard at the edge. On hard materials will low abrasion, such as wittling hardwood, it will hold up very well. On par, and perhaps even better than some of the top-end steels. On very abrasive material, such as cardboard, you will see a noticable difference though, in comparison to a highly abrasion resistant steel like S30V.

The Salt line is probably the line that is most rewarding to tinker with. It is not too expensive if you make a mistake and the grindability allows you to thin out the edge/blade even with hand tools without too much effort and H1 is one of those steels that will support a fairly accute edge (below 10 deg per side).
 
I read one of Sal's posts stating that in edge retention, it's like AUS8 for PE and S30V (PE) for H1 SE. I find sharpening to be pretty easy. The steel grinds off very easy compared to S30V, VG10 and of course ZDP189.
 
Thanks for your information, I am looking forward to working with the knife and giving it a few licks on some of my diamond stones.

Thanks again,
Ciao
Ron
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My thoughts echo what everyone else has said but I'll add that the Salt is the best knife I've ever found for summer carry in the swamp. Has Spyderco released any H1 fixd blades yet? I know it was in the works...
 
roughedges said:
My thoughts echo what everyone else has said but I'll add that the Salt is the best knife I've ever found for summer carry in the swamp. Has Spyderco released any H1 fixd blades yet? I know it was in the works...
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Supposed to be out by x-mas.
 
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