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Vargo Sintered Titanium Knife
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Great, let us know what you think after you put it through it's paces!
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Who even knows what percentage of it is titanium? It's all "proprietary" lol.
In the world of credit cards, the hierarchy is:
normal, silver, gold, platinum, THEN titanium.......but then the Centurion Card.
AMEX Centurion Card is actually made of titanium. If you really want to impress people, you need the Uranium Card.
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That I will do! I have quite a few knives to compare it with. If it compares favorably with even budget steels like AUS-8, 440 series etc. that would be an improvement over the Ti knives I have used up to this point.
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I had a mission mpk series fixed blade titanium knife which I sold and another chinese made diving knife that had a titanium blade. They cut fine, but needed frequent sharpening cause the titanium alloy is softer than steel and thus does not hold an edge as long. What titanium knives have you used?
Hi guys,
Just an early impression.
I got this knife about 3 weeks ago.
As many of us I try to find best steel, usually I don't need "the best" but still I go thru charts, specs, reviews and such, you know the drill
I don't have many pocket knives, so far 3 (that I kept):
Benchmade 940 CMP-S90V
Benchmade 960 Limited Edition CPM-M4
Vargo Sobata 398
I'm a fan of Axis from Benchmade but got curious about this new blade material, and while I still prefer Axis, liner lock on this one is nice.
As I said is early so just initial impressions in random order.
1. Don't have any complains so far.
2. For me blade feels plenty sharp out of the box (I don't check if blade shaves hairs after sharpening, I use my knifes not just admire their sharpness, so YMMV)
3. I like that I don’t have to care about corrosion, coming from my M4 where I have to clean it to keep it in shape.
4. It is light and fits well clipped on my pants packet, does not stick out too much and being gray is stealthy again, see may red 960
5. I was on the trip with friends, there was no sharp knife in room we had so everybody used my Vargo, they cut things (bread, tomato, other food stuff) on plate (no cutting board). I had chills coming down thru my spine but after all that (3 days of using it as the only sharp knife around) edge is still like it was, I don’t feel like it needs any touch up.
6. I got comments (peeling orange or such) that knife is too sharp. People are afraid to cut themselves with this knife! Didn’t get that comments on previous trips when they used my 940.
So, early impression is very good. If you forget about all scientific stuff behinds a steel (I know is hard) this knife is good.
Obviously at this point I don’t know how it will hold up in long run but it looks promising.
Price is steep so it may be a problem, for me coming from Banchmade 940, 960 it was in the same ballpark but I can see that may be show stopper for some.
Just an early impression.
I got this knife about 3 weeks ago.
As many of us I try to find best steel, usually I don't need "the best" but still I go thru charts, specs, reviews and such, you know the drill
I don't have many pocket knives, so far 3 (that I kept):
Benchmade 940 CMP-S90V
Benchmade 960 Limited Edition CPM-M4
Vargo Sobata 398
I'm a fan of Axis from Benchmade but got curious about this new blade material, and while I still prefer Axis, liner lock on this one is nice.
As I said is early so just initial impressions in random order.
1. Don't have any complains so far.
2. For me blade feels plenty sharp out of the box (I don't check if blade shaves hairs after sharpening, I use my knifes not just admire their sharpness, so YMMV)
3. I like that I don’t have to care about corrosion, coming from my M4 where I have to clean it to keep it in shape.
4. It is light and fits well clipped on my pants packet, does not stick out too much and being gray is stealthy again, see may red 960
5. I was on the trip with friends, there was no sharp knife in room we had so everybody used my Vargo, they cut things (bread, tomato, other food stuff) on plate (no cutting board). I had chills coming down thru my spine but after all that (3 days of using it as the only sharp knife around) edge is still like it was, I don’t feel like it needs any touch up.
6. I got comments (peeling orange or such) that knife is too sharp. People are afraid to cut themselves with this knife! Didn’t get that comments on previous trips when they used my 940.
So, early impression is very good. If you forget about all scientific stuff behinds a steel (I know is hard) this knife is good.
Obviously at this point I don’t know how it will hold up in long run but it looks promising.
Price is steep so it may be a problem, for me coming from Banchmade 940, 960 it was in the same ballpark but I can see that may be show stopper for some.
I used my Vargo Sobata 398 for a few months as my daily EDU. From the get go: a.) Don't care for flippers -as we move into cold weather here and my old hands get clumsier because of that -I knew this wasn't all that likely to be a all season user. Add to that the lack of any stud or hole to substitute for the flipper -well-I got sorta used to opening it-but real
comfort with daily use wasn't here. Knew that going in -but was really curious about the claims for blade wear and sharpeness over time and use. b.) The keppin it sharp even after lots of use (ritual slaughter of the cardboard box pile , opening plastic clamshell packaging, stripping insulation off of wire ,slicing plastic wrap off of nearly everything Iwe eat ,cutting the seed stalks off of the burdock , -all the stuff you carry a knife to do.c.) Finally used it to drill a hole in the back of a motion detector and broke the extreme end of the tip off. (same deal with my Spyderco Yojimbo). This is a pretty common use for a knife in my pocket-had gotten away with using it for that task a few times a week -but wasn't surprised when it failed. The Vargo edge is pretty strange-even after a lot of use -it still cuts really well. You aren't really sharpening anything except Titanium -which is outright soft-so I actually had better luck sharpening it on ordinary (non-diamond) wetstones -no reason to oversharpen a few passes on each side and your done.Over about three months it impressed me with it's slim size and lightness - if they ever come out with a model that has a stud ,hole or disc to open it and maybe a bit thicker piercing tip that will hold up to poking it into plastic back boxes and using it as a drill - I'll be interested. And their claims about staying usefully sharp over the long haul are in my experience justified - pretty strange-but this sintered ceramic/Titanium blade works.
comfort with daily use wasn't here. Knew that going in -but was really curious about the claims for blade wear and sharpeness over time and use. b.) The keppin it sharp even after lots of use (ritual slaughter of the cardboard box pile , opening plastic clamshell packaging, stripping insulation off of wire ,slicing plastic wrap off of nearly everything Iwe eat ,cutting the seed stalks off of the burdock , -all the stuff you carry a knife to do.c.) Finally used it to drill a hole in the back of a motion detector and broke the extreme end of the tip off. (same deal with my Spyderco Yojimbo). This is a pretty common use for a knife in my pocket-had gotten away with using it for that task a few times a week -but wasn't surprised when it failed. The Vargo edge is pretty strange-even after a lot of use -it still cuts really well. You aren't really sharpening anything except Titanium -which is outright soft-so I actually had better luck sharpening it on ordinary (non-diamond) wetstones -no reason to oversharpen a few passes on each side and your done.Over about three months it impressed me with it's slim size and lightness - if they ever come out with a model that has a stud ,hole or disc to open it and maybe a bit thicker piercing tip that will hold up to poking it into plastic back boxes and using it as a drill - I'll be interested. And their claims about staying usefully sharp over the long haul are in my experience justified - pretty strange-but this sintered ceramic/Titanium blade works.
This Boker Cera Titan has a Titanium blade that has added Silver for ductility. I modified the drop point to a clip point. The Titanium Carbides in the blade are as hard as Vanadium Carbide (82 HRC). These are discontinued but pop up on the bay.View attachment 1681903