Cutting little strips off a pine two by four is child's play. You can literally do that with a glass knife aka obsidian. Try doing that same thing with some hardwoods like oak or do a little light digging with it in some soil with some gravel in it. Maximet is great if you are doing light duty repetitive work that tends to dull knives quickly, like if you job requires you to cut cardboard all day long. It is absolutely terrible for everyday use for most people. It rusts if you get it anywhere near salt water, if you even try to use it to drill or batton through a little bit of wood or heavy duty plastic it chips or snaps the tip off terribly easily. It is difficult to sharpen and you will need diamond to do it properly. If you cut cardboard all day, you have diamond stones and are skilled with them and you don't plan to ever get the knife wet or live by the sea and you don't use it for everyday moderately heavy duty work then Maximet might be the steel for you. If you can't check off all those things then you are probably better off with a tougher, more corrosion resistant steel.
Your sharpening regime on a £15 pen knife is going much further than most people would go on a high quality Japanese/Solingen/Sheffield steel £700 straight razor. Is it really that necessary?
How are you feeling about the S110V blade steel after seven years? Would you still use it despite the other stainless steel options on the market today, like S90V or MagnaCut?
Thats the issue i feel i have when freehand sharpening. I just dont feel confident that im using the same angle when flipping sides or changing stones etc. Im sure im within 1 to 2 degrees but i feel that its necessary to be more precise than that to get a super sharp edge. I get my knives hair popping sharp, when everything comes together just right. But ive never whittled a hair before. Also, quite often it seems i take the bite off my edge when i move to the strops. Any suggestions or am i destined to be a fixed angle clamp system guy?
The Esee 6 has always been my dream knife which I finally got recently. I just don't get how anyone could complain about the sheath, I think it's a great sheath so why am I going to waste money to get one made when this one works just fine?? People always complain about the sheath, it's always the sheath. I don't know what happened to OKC but I'm definitely going to buy the RTAKII 125th anniversary edition to compliment my Esee 6 out in the woods.
I know this is an older video but I hope you respond, does carbide tear out happen with m4 I have a manix 2 that was real sharp and I kept it nice for a year or so but lately I’ve been struggling
I got one I love it. Was waiting for the right steel for a para 3 and this is it. Cruwear holds a fine edge for so long and then the working edge dulls quickly. For a small EDC knife I prefer a long lasting razors edge and then I sharpen anyway. It's such a great, comfortable in hand, all around knife.
