SURVIVE! GSO-10 initial review with photos (warning: pic-heavy)

Love your reviews brother on YouTube & threads here @BF...thought I'd give this a *BUMP* since I got my pre-order in for the latest iteration of the GSO-10 and can't wait for it to ship!

Also, your drop leg extension is brilliant!

In the meantime while I wait, a couple questions:

Are you ordering one <new GSO-10>?

How do you feel the Survive! 3V stacks up against INFI for your uses?
 
PeteyTwoPointOne said:
Love your reviews brother on YouTube & threads here @BF...thought I'd give this a *BUMP* since I got my pre-order in for the latest iteration of the GSO-10 and can't wait for it to ship!

Also, your drop leg extension is brilliant!

In the meantime while I wait, a couple questions:

Are you ordering one <new GSO-10>?

How do you feel the Survive! 3V stacks up against INFI for your uses?
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Thanks for reading and watching :thumbup:

Yes, i ended up pre-ordering the new GSO-10, I tried not to but figured it would be good to do a comparison for folk.

Regarding my drop leg extension, anyone interested can find more information here - it's an inexpensive but high-quality, highly versatile piece of kit: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...sion-UKE-2-0-leg-straps-and-ferro-rod-holders

Comparing Survive!'s 3V to INFI, I actually do not own a an INFI blade this size. However, comparing the new GSO-5.1 to an INFI Hog Muk (similar edge thickness), both sustained almost no damage when used to cross-cut dried red oak and baton through sheet metal, whereas SR101 and 1095 as well as Cruforge V sustained damage (to varying degrees) in the same tasks. That said, THIS blade is an older model prior to the collaboration between Survive! and Nathan Carothers and Dan Keffeler. I managed to do substantial damage to the edge of this blade when I struck it against some heavy gauge tree-spikes and old barbed-wire fence hidden in the brush I was clearing. I continue to use the blade joyfully, multiple sharpenings have not yet reached the depth of the damage. Would INFI have fared better? *shrug* I don't know. But the new GSO-10s will probably be equipped with steel subjected to a newer, more optimized HT-protocol. Through the advances in HT, I am confident that CPM-3V in Survive! models will give INFI a run for its money in strength, toughness, edge-holding, and even corrosion resistance, i.e. durability. :thumbup: But I am not in a position to say which is the better choice most of the time. I have generally found Survive!'s 3V models more affordable or in preferred designs to many of Busse's models. I love my Hog Muk, but so far it is the only INFI blade that has really drawn me in.
 
GSO-10 at my side with a Condor MA45 pouch:

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Excellent review. But you did not do the severe test yet. You must see if it will survive being used to spread Skippy crunchy peanut butter:)
 
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