Why isn't Magnacut more available in production knives?

Probably the famous bark river burnt edge, I took my bushcraft scout to the other side of the world with the factory edge and it held up great, though it dulled a bit faster than I would've liked. I came home, carefully sharpened it with a belt sander to a literal hair whittling edge and now the knife blows me away performance wise. That being said, it's probably the last bark river I'll ever buy. It's a shame no one else really makes knives in that style other than *maybe* LT Wright. It really put a bad taste in my mouth when Mike Stewart told me personally that it was impossible that they had ever burnt an edge on any of their knives on top of the quality control issues I've had and all the other scandals involving them.
I didn't even care to sharpen it. To see the edge basically crumble away like that? Yeah, big dissapointment after waiting months on the pre orders.

My gunny hunter isn't terrible, edge is decent out of box but the grind...do they hire blind people at brk? Anyone know?
 
My company employs 15 work release inmates from the local prison. They are the hardest workers we have, more so than our full time employees.

Yeah I've always disliked the notion that hiring parolees is a bad thing. If anything it's an act of generosity, it's a bit of a risk given their obvious criminal past but I imagine most people out of prison who are looking for honest work rather than just falling back into whatever cycle put them in prison in the first place are really just trying to turn their lives around after having paid their debts to society.
 
Yeah I've always disliked the notion that hiring parolees is a bad thing. If anything it's an act of generosity, it's a bit of a risk given their obvious criminal past but I imagine most people out of prison who are looking for honest work rather than just falling back into whatever cycle put them in prison in the first place are really just trying to turn their lives around after having paid their debts to society.

And most of them do want to turn their lives around. Our inmates are infor drug related crimes, not violent crime, so there’s that. They’re just regular old folks like you and I, just made some bad decisions.
 
Watching Mike Stewart blow up on guys over on Facebook who were asking why their new BRK Magnacut knives were developing patina after one or two uses was rich, RICH.

That's unfortunate. I got one of the initial MagnaCut knives from Bark River. It was my first experience with the company and it never got a chance to rust. The scale fit was off. The grind was uneven. There was a burr at the tip. It was an instant return. :(
 
That's unfortunate. I got one of the initial MagnaCut knives from Bark River. It was my first experience with the company and it never got a chance to rust. The scale fit was off. The grind was uneven. There was a burr at the tip. It was an instant return. :(

The claims I now see him making towards people who post up their BRKs with poor grinds asking questions is "It's a handmade, hand sharpened knife BY HAND! Go out and use it!!!*" and then his brigadeers jump in to come down on the guy who dared to have a less than stellar opinion of the work. So, in other words, for anyone who was curious, MS is still MS.


* You make fixed blades with lots of pretty handle materials that look like custom quality in some cases, and yet give the knife a lazy uneven or wonky grind, and wonder why people are upset? Friggin' WOT M8? :rolleyes:
 
Thanks!

I won't be buying a BRK Magnacut knife and I bailed on Strider long before the dust up over there.

In terms of Hinderer knives, it may be a bit of a PR blunder to some but to me it is a don't care other than supporting him and his fight against some "social media hack" trying to turn the social media army of greivances against Hinderer for being successful!

It sounds like the Hinderer knives Magnacut knife might be worth checking out!
 
That CRK Backpacker sure looks nice but, at $300 isn't going to find its way to my pocket.
 
Just a note that if you look at Larrin’s data, there is a huge difference in toughness when tempered at slightly different temperatures (300 F vs 350 - 400 F). Meaning it’s easy to overheat the edge. This is backed up but Nathan/CPK’s recent experiments.

I have a couple of Magnacut knives but would never buy one from a maker that dry grinds after heat treat.
 
I am a big WHITE RIVER KNIFE fan. Really good knives at modest prices relative to most in the same market segments.
They do the CRK thing with their S30V and S35VN where they still run it at RC59, which annoys me, but I'd buy a LOT of knives from them in Magnacut at RC62. Especially a double-grind Knucklehead, Backpacker, and any Fisk collaboration.
 
The claims I now see him making towards people who post up their BRKs with poor grinds asking questions is "It's a handmade, hand sharpened knife BY HAND! Go out and use it!!!*" and then his brigadeers jump in to come down on the guy who dared to have a less than stellar opinion of the work. So, in other words, for anyone who was curious, MS is still MS.


* You make fixed blades with lots of pretty handle materials that look like custom quality in some cases, and yet give the knife a lazy uneven or wonky grind, and wonder why people are upset? Friggin' WOT M8? :rolleyes:

I saw a few of those posts lately. Someone with an issue on a BRK grind gets attacked by everyone in the group. Funny because I would think a hand ground knife would be better because a person actually paid attention to it and did the work before saying it was good to be sent to a customer. I guess with BRK hand ground is a excuse for sub par work and they are admitting machine ground knives would be better.
 
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