New sub here. I think Spyderco is selling this steel at a very fair price. I'm sure maxamet would cause lots of changes in the production process. Sharpening it would not increase the price much. I have an example of your work. I bought a Benchmade Valet,used, a while ago. It turns out that it was sharpened (repaired) by you. Good job! Great new edge! You've got a new fan
The heat treat is very involved and extremely expensive. I'm almost positive that it needs a 2250f soak and cryo and multiple tempers. Not to mention the belts and drill bits/grinding wheels they go through really fast, as well as the higher price of the steel is alot of the reason for increased price. Regarding the sharpening chromium is gummy and makes steel brittle/ not take an edge well From my experience tungsten is very good at wanting to get extremely sharp without much effort. The extreme hardness helps it hold an acute edge very well too. Tungsten also seems to hold high sharpness longer than vanadium. Cobalt helps kind of boost the properties of all the allows even more along with a higher attainable hardness. I'm very glad that carpenter decided to not try and make this stainless. It is sort of a souped up Rex t15
hardness rockwell is a factor in edge retention wear and durability but other things like tungsten and vanadium +carbon determine the over performance of the knife
I dropped my then brand new pm2 in m390 on the pavement. The tip was fairly damaged and the knife has never been the same since that night. I have never had so much bad luck with a knife than with pm2 's.
finest steel I have ever used takes a beautiful forced patina with hues of blues and grays using sliced strawberries. not difficult to sharpen with DMT diamond stones I have also used ceramic stones as well. Absolutely nothing comes even close to Maxamet for edge retention.
