Cliff Stamp
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- Oct 5, 1998
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The Military was found to have a high level of cutting ability due to the high flat grind and thin and acute edge. The grip was decently ergonomic for a clip-on folder, and was very secure in hand. The lock was found to be both stable and strong easily handling heavy torques, white knuckling and spine whacks. The Military was found to work very well as a highly optomized cutting tool with a precision ground point which excells at fine cutting.
The steel (S30V at 58-59 HRC) easily took both a fine shaving a coarse edge and held both well comparable to VG-10 at 59-60 HRC. The corrosion resistance was high, no sign of rust even after extended cutting of acidic fruits and vegetables with no rust inhibitor used. The only drawback was the slightly longer sharpening time compared to steels such as VG-10 (and *much* longer sharpening time compared to simple steels like 52100).
Now the Military is out on loan to a few friends to get some more general feedback, once it gets returned it will be used for some harder cutting to see how the edge holds (bones, metals, some digging, etc.) and then used for more rugged applications which push sensible boundries on folder applications. The latter are things like batoning to cut or split wood. They will be done first with care and low force and then later more heavily to see how the blade would fare in worse case senario situations [*].
Ref :
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/military_s30v.html
[*]the Military isn't promoted for such use.
-Cliff
The steel (S30V at 58-59 HRC) easily took both a fine shaving a coarse edge and held both well comparable to VG-10 at 59-60 HRC. The corrosion resistance was high, no sign of rust even after extended cutting of acidic fruits and vegetables with no rust inhibitor used. The only drawback was the slightly longer sharpening time compared to steels such as VG-10 (and *much* longer sharpening time compared to simple steels like 52100).
Now the Military is out on loan to a few friends to get some more general feedback, once it gets returned it will be used for some harder cutting to see how the edge holds (bones, metals, some digging, etc.) and then used for more rugged applications which push sensible boundries on folder applications. The latter are things like batoning to cut or split wood. They will be done first with care and low force and then later more heavily to see how the blade would fare in worse case senario situations [*].
Ref :
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/military_s30v.html
[*]the Military isn't promoted for such use.
-Cliff
