Too Salty

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continuation of my last thread,

just ordered a Spyderco Atlantic Salt, full serrated, and went to order my full plain edge Pacific Salt but the knife snob in me wont let me, felt like too much salt. My second option is to get either a delica or endura
A) quite being so salty and get the Pacific to match
or
B) Get the Delica or endura, or other

also, these will be exposed to some very humid, salt water conditions (on a ship), will vg10 hold up??


anything will help. thanks
 
vg10 is pretty darn corrosion resistant, thought not corrosion proof. the H1 steel in the salt is about as corrosion proof as you can get, so its your call, If these knives are water only knives I say salt.
But I like the endura 4,
but I dont work on a boat. :)
 
My advice is to look at your priorities. If corrosion resistance is #1, go for the PAC salt for sure. If not, you will find the vg10 endura (in plain edge) has significantly better edge retention. You working on the boat, or going to be on the ocean regularly? Then get the salt for sure.
 
If you don't have an Endura or Delica yet, I'd get one of those since you already have an Atlantic Salt. There's a reason why they are two of Spyderco's best sellers. This would be my answer from a knife lover perspective.

From a more pragmatic standpoint, though... VG-10 will rust (as will pretty much anything else, too), I carried an Endura while working in flooded areas in the summer and it did develop some rust spots. Nothing that I couldn't easily fix, although the inner parts were a bit of a pain in thebehind to clean up. The next time I volunteered I used a Pacific Salt and fell in love with it, not only because of the rust resistance, but also because I like the handle more than the one on the Endura 4, it's lighter since there are no liners and the blade shape is great. The only downside is mediocre edge holding (a trade off for H1's immunity torust).

Sorry, I don't think I was too helpful. :-)
 
Franciscomv said:
If you don't have an Endura or Delica yet, I'd get one of those since you already have an Atlantic Salt. There's a reason why they are two of Spyderco's best sellers. This would be my answer from a knife lover perspective.......
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ive owned about three of each loved em all, unfortunately in idaho you have to go out of your way to make a knife rust so ive never been able to test this ability

thanks for the input
 
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