Vanax for the Sebenza

[PiterM]

Not chopped... just wait a day or two, need to finish write up. But there were just couple of them built (in 2019 as you can see) to check how it works in real life conditions. Every new car needs a real prototype to be test driven before commercial availability. Long time before. Same story with new steel...

 

[BellaBlades]

Not chopped... just wait a day or two, need to finish write up. But there were just couple of them built (in 2019 as you can see) to check how it works in real life conditions. Every new car needs a real prototype to be test driven before commercial availability. Long time before. Same story with new steel...

Send me your 45. I'd give a dead nuts review I'm the Mario Andretti of test driving steel.

 

[marthinus]

S45VN is good natural successor of S35VN. It is awesome regarding corrosion resistance, sharpens easily, takes very keen and aggressive edge, wear resistance is clearly better than S35VN. Overall not a massive improvement, more like serious evolution than revolution. Which is good. But there’s also (imho) no point to ‚wait for it’ which is also important.

BTW, that new S45VN was also seriously field tested, long term, in many applications & environments. I know it was. Wait for it

Nice piece. Missed that completely.

 

[PiterM]

Just for the record: of course this knife was given to me (for long term use) since you can’t buy a REAL factory prototype (opposed to collector’s prototypes sometimes available, like numbered Sebenza 31 at Blade’19). That’s why I was not able to review too many other folders after March’19 (just two actually till 2020). I was using this Inkosi as EDC folder most of time.

Also fyi, when Tim gave me that knife he didn’t ask me for a review. He just asked me to report only to him and his team monthly (more or less) how the steel was performing, if there were any issues related to heat treating, how easy/hard field sharpening was, if it corroded or not, etc.

Recently I just asked Tim if it’d be fine for him to make kind of ‚user report’ after that full year of use. I mean, I really spent some time with this knife in the outdoor and it’d be a shame (imho) not to share it with others. He agreed. So it’s been sent for publishing last night and within a day or two it should go live at ITS Tactical blog (www.itstactical.com). I’ll share it here of course.

BTW, even this required no resharpening...

 

[353]

Just for the record: of course this knife was given to me (for long term use) since you can’t buy a REAL factory prototype (opposed to collector’s prototypes sometimes available, like numbered Sebenza 31 at Blade’19). That’s why I was not able to review too many other folders after March’19 (just two actually till 2020). I was using this Inkosi as EDC folder most of time.

Also fyi, when Tim gave me that knife he didn’t ask me for a review. He just asked me to report only to him and his team monthly (more or less) how the steel was performing, if there were any issues related to heat treating, how easy/hard field sharpening was, if it corroded or not, etc.

Recently I just asked Tim if it’d be fine for him to make kind of ‚user report’ after that full year of use. I mean, I really spent some time with this knife in the outdoor and it’d be a shame (imho) not to share it with others. He agreed. So it’s been sent for publishing last night and within a day or two it should go live at ITS Tactical blog (www.itstactical.com). I’ll share it here of course.

BTW, even this required no resharpening...

WOW!! You chopped down a tree!!

I was not aware, but its soooo cool that CRK now is tesing new steels!! GREAT news!

 

[BellaBlades]

Just for the record: of course this knife was given to me (for long term use) since you can’t buy a REAL factory prototype (opposed to collector’s prototypes sometimes available, like numbered Sebenza 31 at Blade’19). That’s why I was not able to review too many other folders after March’19 (just two actually till 2020). I was using this Inkosi as EDC folder most of time.

Also fyi, when Tim gave me that knife he didn’t ask me for a review. He just asked me to report only to him and his team monthly (more or less) how the steel was performing, if there were any issues related to heat treating, how easy/hard field sharpening was, if it corroded or not, etc.

Recently I just asked Tim if it’d be fine for him to make kind of ‚user report’ after that full year of use. I mean, I really spent some time with this knife in the outdoor and it’d be a shame (imho) not to share it with others. He agreed. So it’s been sent for publishing last night and within a day or two it should go live at ITS Tactical blog (www.itstactical.com). I’ll share it here of course.

BTW, even this required no resharpening...

I hope there is no loss of toughness. There is no real world advantage for me to have a more stain resistant steel.

Hoping for good news. Better edge retention would be fine by me but at what cost?

Looking forward to the review.

 

[marthinus]

Just for the record: of course this knife was given to me (for long term use) since you can’t buy a REAL factory prototype (opposed to collector’s prototypes sometimes available, like numbered Sebenza 31 at Blade’19). That’s why I was not able to review too many other folders after March’19 (just two actually till 2020). I was using this Inkosi as EDC folder most of time.

Also fyi, when Tim gave me that knife he didn’t ask me for a review. He just asked me to report only to him and his team monthly (more or less) how the steel was performing, if there were any issues related to heat treating, how easy/hard field sharpening was, if it corroded or not, etc.

Recently I just asked Tim if it’d be fine for him to make kind of ‚user report’ after that full year of use. I mean, I really spent some time with this knife in the outdoor and it’d be a shame (imho) not to share it with others. He agreed. So it’s been sent for publishing last night and within a day or two it should go live at ITS Tactical blog (www.itstactical.com). I’ll share it here of course.

BTW, even this required no resharpening...

Aah. I thought it was a special run for Blade. No surprise they are testing steels. Looking forward to the review.