My dog stopped licking his private parts and looked at the computer due to the singing. From now on I'm going to play the intro if and when he continues the act again.
Learned from your videos: 1. Big brands generally provide a better heat treatment with the same steel, but better to do a test after purchasing a knife to confirm. 2. Learn how to sharpen. A proper self sharpened edge release the knife's real potential. Thanks for your great work again. Will download this and share with my friends.
Big batch = big varience. My d2 custom would be at the higher end as it received personal attention in ht, temper, and cryo. Spyderco wont bother to cryo anything for you lol
Thank you, for doing this steel too, and for the greatest intro ever! I have been brushing-off this steel, in my mind, for some time now (Spyderco Mule, etc.). Then, a few months ago, a perfect storm happened. I was shopping for another fixed-blade knife in this size range (Thin, Bird and Trout-ish type). At just about that same time. I noticed the 0.30% Nitrogen on the chart, for this PSF27. I thought, damn! How did I miss that earlier? So I bought this Junction, and have been extremely happy with it! This video, takes that happiness, to the next level. No more overlooking PSF27! : - )
That Sisal Rope Wife Effigy was WAY too nuanced and well-formed to have been a first attempt...no judgement dude, this one time at band camp I...uh, nevermind. By the way 0:35 needs to be a GIF, bahahaha. As always, appreciate the intense amount of work you go through to bring us these results, Pete. Glad to see you using gloves now, and (I think?) a higher chair to prevent shoulder impingement. Whatever the case, long term dexterity is much preferred to short term tasks. If your hands and shoulders blowout, you may go so far down the rabbit hole of odd singing and squeezing rope-boobs we'll need to send you off to a place with rubber walls where you can 'get some rest', lol.
These test results demonstrate precisely why, one of the first things I do when I get a new knife, is to sharpen it. I also reduce the edge angle to an average of 17º. I'm seldom happy with factory edges, out of the box, so, resharpening them (out of the box) has become a habit. Of course, this is after insuring the knife is defect free, and, in good working order. 👍
Another good video. I always wondered what the difference in edge retention would be if you tested the same steel , but with different HRC's , like 58 vs 61 ? Right now Ganzo has a few knives (FH11/ FH21/FH31) that have D2 blades run at 61 HRC ( tested by LTK ) and I can feel how much more edge retention it has over other D2 knives , like the D2 Rats and some D2 Steel Will knives. And for $26.00 US , they are a great deal '
""Carpenter alloy, confirms to the AISI D2 steel, made using Spray Form technology..SF offers uniformly distributed, smaller carbides..." Yup, what you said. Killer theme, by the way!
Hey mate, What do you know about the Dewey Australian Army knife? I bought one new about twenty years ago in stag scales but never used it due to not having a sheaf for it. I just made a leather sheaf for it and am pressing it into use as a belt knife for fishing the rivers of Northern Australia . It's meant to be D2 steel from memory.
Did you mention the angle on the xhp? Also if you was to pick your favorite angle to sharpen a knife with decent to good metal what would it be? With watching your videos it seems as if you have changed the line of thinking on the angle of the edge if it's decent metal. For example in a lot of the tests I've seen you do you have I need a thinner angle cut more pieces of rope then what most people would have originally thought. Thanks for all your contribution to the knife world. And your videos are pretty awesome :-)
sometimes I have to count when editing, which is painful. I usually am muttering the count out loud but sometimes the crunchy rope sounds drown that out too, so I have to actually count again. But i’ve gotten better at focussing so this doesnt happen too often!
CTS-XHP is one of my favourite steels thus far next to my benchmade foray cpm-20cv my chaparral is my favourite spyderco same one in your vids great vids thanks I think you could have gotten about 25-50 more cuts with the cts-xhp, if you watch your video you’ll notice when you did the paper cuts on the cts-xhp you had a slicey cut still compared to the psf27 before you added the next 25 cuts on the factory edge. aside from the new 17 degree which was obviously the higher cut champ :)
Over 100 cuts than doizer and boker ingot d2. Cpm-d2 i dont think you've actually tested yet (your boker d2 was labled cpm-d2, but im still almost positive its not the powdered steel variant), cause it would likely do as much or more than psf27. And the boker did almost identical in cuts as the doizer in d2. All the other d2 tested way less cuts than those. Ie the import d2. Where they had to go thinner behind the edge as a crutch to increase edge retention.
Due to the singing (?!) I had to peel my cat off of the ceiling. Eyes as large as saucers. That song, motion sensors set up near the trash can with a loud speaker = no cat getting near the garbage. Ever.
i carried an izula 2 at 11 o’clock canted for about a year and loved it and have been carrying the junction in the same way, it’s definitely on the larger side for me at least, but not massive, the handle scales are surprisingly thin, i do wish they were a bit thiccer, as well as the blade stock, but overall it’s been great to me besides the size of the sheath
I never get why people say xhp is like a "stainless" D2. That's like saying m390 is a more stainless s30v with a little more tungsten and carbon. Xhp has 4-4.5% more Cr and .45-.65% less vanadium than D2. Variables like that have a big difference in the steel.
Wow. What an intro. So I heard that different heat treats can affect stain resistance in a steel. That's getting pretty deep into the steel voodoo but I can't help but wonder how the PSF27 did so well in the rust test.
That intro.... well done sir, well done. I don’t mind the non-stainless steels for my fixed blades but I always worry about corrosion taking hold somewhere I can’t see without taking the folder apart. It just seems a bit odd that with all these wonderful stainless steels to choose from that we keep seeing folders with non-stainless blades. Perhaps my concerns are overblown?
I've actually got a custom blade in CPMD2. It is...well...fine. Just fine. Takes a decent edge, keeps it decently. Nothing amazing, nothing bad. Probably seen as making CPM 440B steel or something just as silly.
Maxwell Super yeah thats kinda how i read the situation - not enough to not just use normal d2 and save some cash, or use xhp and be stainless I suppose
Okay... judging by the opening song, do NOT quit your day job! haha...(I know you meant it as a joke.) I commented on a one year old video of yours, not realising it was one year old... so I thought I'd make the same comment here, in case you don't get to see the other one. I find your videos very informative and entertaining. Thank you very much for doing this, and please keep up the good work. Wishing you great luck in all your endeavours. :)
Omg, that intro😂😂😂 does Tree know about your sisal wife? Also I’m pretty sure the window silhouette shot is how is how non knifey people picture us when we tell them about our hobby lol
As far as I understand D2 is so good because it`s carbides are unrefined and rough, so not getting a benefit from refining it via cpm would make sense, but I am also prone to talking out of my arse so I might be totally wrong.
Just a heads up!! I really enjoy your videos!! All of em even the weird ones!! Keep it up!!! Now I have question? Shaman or pm2??? I want both but gotta start somewhere
Do you need me to start a rescue mission to find tree? Or did she sneak off with a guy named wood? I think I may have something wrong with me because I would actually be really upset if you guys split up. F Sisal shes too rough around the edges. Tree is better.
