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strider steel
- Thread starter danroot
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you know, i'm not sure. i haven't put my strider (MTL, cpms30v) to any hard use yet, but it's probably a great steel. the one thing i noticed is that when i unwrapped my MTL from the package i was initially somewhat disappointed, i was like "this is awefully lightweight, i'm supposed to chop with THIS?!". now on the other hand, the ATS-34's are heavy and make great choppers. i'm not so sure if my MTL will outperform my TOPS moccasin ranger in terms of chopping...... 
from my understanding the MTL is designed and intended by Strider as an all-purpose knife, which includes wilderness-survival, and therefore chopping. but how it feels in the s30v-version, it's more like a fighting-knife. hope this makes any sense?
as a comparison: i've had 3 buck-strider folders with ats-34 BOS blades, now those feel really heavy and can take quite a serious beating. i've done things with the blades on those buck-striders most knifenuts would cringe at, but it's remarkably tough. you can spinewhack that blade, stab it through metal all day, and all it gets is some scratches and needs only the slightest touch-up on the edge. i didn't like the buck-striders overall though, i felt that the only good things about them was the blade, and all the rest ws just not on par with it. i've kept one blade and one handle and converted it into a 4" fixed blade with cord-wrapping. it looks like a POS, like a prison-shank, but it's amazing how much abuse that ATS-34 can take. for one, i think (?) that the ATS-34 is less brittle and thus somewhat less prone to chipping.......
from my understanding the MTL is designed and intended by Strider as an all-purpose knife, which includes wilderness-survival, and therefore chopping. but how it feels in the s30v-version, it's more like a fighting-knife. hope this makes any sense?
as a comparison: i've had 3 buck-strider folders with ats-34 BOS blades, now those feel really heavy and can take quite a serious beating. i've done things with the blades on those buck-striders most knifenuts would cringe at, but it's remarkably tough. you can spinewhack that blade, stab it through metal all day, and all it gets is some scratches and needs only the slightest touch-up on the edge. i didn't like the buck-striders overall though, i felt that the only good things about them was the blade, and all the rest ws just not on par with it. i've kept one blade and one handle and converted it into a 4" fixed blade with cord-wrapping. it looks like a POS, like a prison-shank, but it's amazing how much abuse that ATS-34 can take. for one, i think (?) that the ATS-34 is less brittle and thus somewhat less prone to chipping.......
to see what i mean you could read this Strider WB review of Cliff Stamp. it shows fairly well what you can do with an ATS-34 Strider 
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/WB.html
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/WB.html
, maybe i'll bring it along on my next fishing trip to try it out