Which Benchmade are you carrying today?

Wiredbeans, I'll say it to your edges are ridiculous. You do them yourself if so what are you using?
 
Nfd538 said:
Wiredbeans, I'll say it to your edges are ridiculous. You do them yourself if so what are you using?
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sanman28 said:
This. What are you using to get those edges?
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Both of these--just stupidly gorgeous, man. We're headed to our Vermont cabin in the woods for a much needed respite in a couple hours and I'll have all my sharpening and maintenance stuff with me along with a dozen or so knives. It's a great place to zen-out and work on blades and action. I just now threw my user 710 in the bag and am gonna aim for a WB edge on it when I'm up there. I'll use the EdgePro along with the narrow stones I have to keep the recurve as it should be.
 
My EDC Benchmade knives

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Some amazing pics of some amazing knives guys!
My pocket companion today.
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Today it's the 710 I said I was going to put an edge on like wiredbeans' while I was up here in Vermont. I wanted to put a fairly broad edge bevel on it, but settled for 18 degrees as I had a 20 and didn't want to spend all day on that tough as nails D2. After an hour on the EdgePro I still wasn't at the Apex, so I went up to 1000 grit and polished that. I put a 20 micro on it with the SharpMaker and ran that over a green-loaded strop. My old workhorse is pretty damn sharp now.

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ChazzyP said:
Both of these--just stupidly gorgeous, man. We're headed to our Vermont cabin in the woods for a much needed respite in a couple hours and I'll have all my sharpening and maintenance stuff with me along with a dozen or so knives. It's a great place to zen-out and work on blades and action. I just now threw my user 710 in the bag and am gonna aim for a WB edge on it when I'm up there. I'll use the EdgePro along with the narrow stones I have to keep the recurve as it should be.
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Lol you guys are great!, I been doing sharpening for 10+ years ;) check out my instagram: glassedge I just started with instagram.... I'm old school lol :) I'm in Canada thou... that 710 is at 17 dps and that produced a pretty wide bevel because of blade thickness; but Benchmade's heat treat on the D2 is great, edge holds well with minimal chipping. Edge pro apex was what I use upto about 3 years ago and then i bit the bullet and got the Pro2 set up with a lot of xxfine stones and strop to 0.1 micron will generally give you something that sparkles for a long time. Wicked edge is great, I don't have to flip and hold the same angle and position all the time. I normally spend 2~3 hours per knife to make sure all the grind lines are out in each progression.


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Mailman brought this today and I've been carrying it for the second half of the day...Helluva knife, I can't believe I slept on this one for so long... I'm considering dying the green scales black but I'm wondering if it would be possible to get a charcoal gray for a little contrast, however I'm not sure if that would work over the dark green. On the other hand, this one seems like it might be a great candidate for custom scales (CF perhaps?)...Loving it so far!

 
In San Francisco this week with their amazing knife laws so... Not carrying anything as everything I own would be illegal here.

Funny that I probably need something on me to use as SD here more than any other place within 20 miles
 
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Finally pulled the trigger and got a 940-1cf.
Just a quick question to put out there. Does the 940-1 seem bigger (from spine to cutting edge) than my 940 are they all like that I don't think I sharpened away that much steel from my 940. Not sure how long I've maybe 4-5yrs bought it from reputable store. Now the 940-1 I just got from Amazon. Thanks in advance for any help


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In any case fell back in love with the 940 all over again which prompted me to get the 940-1 and 940-2 is on its way


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Brain2go said:
In any case fell back in love with the 940 all over again which prompted me to get the 940-1 and 940-2 is on its way


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The 940 is a great all around knife and the 940-1 is so light. Have you used a 484-1 before? The Nakamura feels amazing in hand, one of my favorites.

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425KRS said:
The 940 is a great all around knife and the 940-1 is so light. Have you used a 484-1 before? The Nakamura feels amazing in hand, one of my favorites.

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I haven't I'll look in to it thanks for the suggestion


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