The Sharpest General on /k/ - James Black EditionThis thread is about the appreciation of knives and their design, their history, and the engineering and materials that are required to make a functioning blade."I want a knife recommendation."Answer the following:>Fixed or folding (or both (or neither))?>Intended use/misuse?>Blade length/girth?>Local laws to ignore?>You can afford this knife! Think of how much money you spend on food and water. Do you really need it? What about air conditioning? You can just turn it off and spend all that money on a knife! Do you really NEED air conditioning? Stop being a big baby, you can afford this knife!Resources>Freehand sharpening guidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWU_qTp3DLM >Primer on knife steelshttps://knifesteelnerds.com/2021/10/19/knife-steels-rated-by-a-metallurgist-toughness-edge-retention-and-corrosion-resistance/Previous Thread: >>64161167
Anyone have a Terava Tiny Knife? I always thought it was dumb. Now I’m dumb enough to want one.
What is the difference between a spear point knife and a dagger?
>>64218189Both sides actually ground and sharpened vs one sharpened.
>>64218043Gen 3 LUDT arriving tomorrow. What am I in for /k/nife aficionados?
carrying my guardian tactical scout for a few days now, i think this is a microtech killer. It's so good. I might sell some microtechs to buy more GT's.
>>64218189Functionally there isn't one, in marketing and legal speak the first guy is correct.
Anyone have experience with these weird green (agate?beryl?) stones? I have a number of expensive arkansas stones but I wonder if this stuff is in the same ball park. Can find them for like five bucks in chinesium online shops
>>64219440I've never used those recent enough to give any meaningful feedback on them. There was one in the junk drawer at one of my old jobs. I don't know for certain if it came from China but it looked just like your pic and the cheapos that Amazon keeps trying to push on me. I tried to sharpen chisels on it, it didn't work very well, it felt like it cut well in some spots but was glazed or overly hard in other-basically it was inconsistent. However since this was a free-use bitch that nobody was particularly careful with, I now wonder if it was just in need of maintenance and I wouldn't want to pass judgement without the opportunity to clean up the stone with a diamond plate or rubbing block, etc, and give it another go. I had a lot less experience under my belt when I tried it.I am a bit curious about them but I don't really need one either. They seem to be quite fine and I'm already pretty well set in that department. The only sharpening supplies I'm even thinking about buying are a larger diamond lapping plate with grooves in it and a very coarse stone, like around 200 grit, that I can use for reshaping used woodworking tools I've been buying lately. I probably won't buy the lapping plate as they're expensive and I can get by with my existing DMT extra coarse plate, it's just annoying to use it for flattening because it doesn't have any grooves.
>>64220448They claim 10000 grit but im thinking this may be as effective as sharpening on a block of marble. It could possibly be decent as a finisher stone right before stropping but if you need to flatten the stone often might not be worth the five bucks
>>64220626That's really why I never thought to try one again even though they are cheap. It's not too difficult to find a stone that's super fine, but finding one that is super fine, lacking any large particles which might damage the edge, all while being friable enough to cut reasonably fast while not being so soft soft that it dishes badly is a tall order.My finest stone is a Suehiro W-8DN, 8k. I only use it for plane & spokeshave irons and one particular chisel; for everything else I stop at 5k for knives & chisels or hard translucent arkansas for carving tools. I doubt the mystery stone would be an improvement on my Suehiro in any way so I just left it at that.
Is this the most tactical full length combat knife there is?
>>64222183I'm happy with the sk5 and then got a 3v version too. It cuts pretty good on most items to include wood, cheap, comfy grip, good sheath. If you have giga chad sized hands then maybe the full size srk version would work better
>>64222710It's not for cutting wood tho, it's for killing enemies quietly during stealth ops, it's used by the fucking united states special forces for a reason
>>64222838I mentioned its cheap mang
>>64222183>SRK compact>full length
>>64222183Considering it's the c and c means compact no it's not full length
I got a Spyderco Shaman and the tip is hella wide and uneven, off center. Am I overreacting or should I return it?
>>64223374>>64223354that's fucked lmao
>>64223354Woah, where did you get it from?My recent Spyderco has a perfect edge.
>>64223634KnifeCenter. Its the S90V exclusive with the micarta.
>>64223354for most knives i wouldnt care but spyderco is essentially the equivalent of mens jewelry for the price. i have a bunch of fugazi ones I purchased from online chinesium and the bevel was always off. bad grind = bad qc, not something spyderco is known for
>>64223837https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_sV32K_wBc>Look up knife on youtube>same exact problemsweird
>>64223865Im seeing like 4 different comments saying theirs had the same uneven bevel. No wonder they were on sale for only $238 compared to the retail price of $270 for the S30V version. KnifeCenter should've labeled these as blem models.
>>64223894https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_V5hSze6KW8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlSA-pHCwuEEvery video, they look like that, it seems like a problematic model. If I returned it, I might do it for store credit and get something different. Or deal with it, it's probably functional and can be gradually corrected when sharpening.
>>64223907According to this comment, the big man Sal said i'm a little bitch and I should just deal with it. Spyderco really relies on its fanboys to keep it going, meanwhile I can get a $90 chinese knife in S90V that comes with a perfect bevel.
>>64223914Yeah, it looks like since those grind issues are so prevalent, they are shipping them out like that and consider it to pass QC, so a warranty claim might not be successful.
>>64223894Even $238 seems outrageous for this knife. It's more than all the other Spydercos that do the exact same thing. I think when the Shaman was released it was $150 so clearly they are just jewing.
>>64224113It was sold for $238 pre-inflation, but they pulled it for having a bad action. It's being re-sold at that same price after they "fixed" it. The S30V and G10 model is $270. I paid $270 last year for an auto Benchmade 9400. IDK why the Shaman is so pricey.
>>64223837>>64223914>made in the USAThere's the problem. Spyderco's USA factory is unironically their worst one despite them being right next door.
>>64223914I'd like to ask Sal if he thinks the uneven grind is the result of:a) the operator of the grinding machine being incompetentb) the operator knowing damn well what was going on, but was being pressured into volume>quality due to managementc) & d) same questions but for the QC departmente) all of the above
At least spydie heat treats are still good
>>64218429Nice. It's got a kick if you're not used to it as it's a hefty M390 blade but lightweight aluminum scales. We used a mix of RemOil liquid and RemOil Spray for the mainspring but plain RemOil liquid will be fine. You can also lube the button cutouts for less grittiness. >>64225207For Microtech, it's usually B, a tiny dash of A (everyone got trained well at MT), but for the rest it's volume > quality for the blade blanks coming off the cutters and millers.
>>64223354My $10 China knives all have perfect edges so yes, return it. I can accept an uneven edge on an entry level handmade knife, but not on an overpriced machine made knife from the West.
>>64225364They still overcharge for what you're getting.
I lost my Elementum a few months ago (amusingly the last time I saw it was opening a longsword's shipping box) so I decided to get another one. It was my first knife and I really liked it. But I remembered it was a little small for my huge hands, so I went with the Primitrox instead.What am I in for other than another disposable Chinese knife?
So I been seeing this CRKT knife all the time at the local PX and decided to say "fuck it" and buy it simply because it's a big cool looking folding knife. But is it worth any good as a EDC knife?
>>64228517the thumbstuds on my similar model came loose regularly, I had to put some blue loctite in there. (they aren't really thumb studs, more like stop pins to lock the blade in place, it's better to use the flipper) The pivot loosens freely, but you can just adjust it with your nail or finger, no big deal, just something to be aware of.
Just bought my first Microtech. Trying out the MSI.
>>64228517I kept the version with solid aluminum handle for a few years in my work truck. It was a good knife, especially for the money. It stood up to a lot of abuse, I wouldn't fear that it would let you down for EDC. That said, it's pretty big and bulky for pocket carry, especially with the flippers sticking out, and you'd raise some eyebrows if you whipped that out in an office to open a package. If you you need a bigger knife for EDC and you were willing to put up with its bulk then yeah, great EDC knife: durable but not too expensive either.
>>64229357Hell yeah! It's gonna feel weird at first, being such a large unit on a crossbar lock, but I enjoy carrying mine a lot.
>>64223923I bought a Cold Steel Tai-Pan off Amazon heavily discounted. I knew something was off, but I went for it anyway. It was the uneven grind, which is even more typical to daggers. Still an amazing knife though for the price.
If you were ever considering a Terava vs. Peltonen knife, the Teravas grinds are pretty loose, and the 6 Peltonens I have are perfect.
Still on the fence about mini bedlam. Anyone got experience?
Went to the Klingenmuseum Solingen (Blademuseum) few days ago and took some pics with my shitty phone, will dump them here.This is the first floor Wall decoration, was hard to snap a pic without people in it. A lotta knives in there that i wanna have in my collection.
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executioners sword
>>64230501Peak EDC when you're high on 10 Victorinox
>>64230529Too lazy to flip this one, dealwithitCutlery on the left was made from ww1 Arty shrapnels
>>64230537cool daggers, sry for the silhoutte
>>64230546Some nice Landsknecht Katzbalger's for the lovers
>>64230559Fancy schmanzy messer
>>64230571Prussian army sabres
>>64230593some caucasian style dagger
>>64230601some klaus schwabcore art cutlery
>>64230625Faschinenmesser, my favorites.
>>64230635>They said i should get a grip>had to whittle 10 years for it
>>64230645Hail the scissorpeacock!
thanks for posting these.Sollte da auch mal hingehen.
>>64230752Some scissor for the scissorpeacockHEIL DIR OH SCHERENPFAU!
>>642307568€ entry fee, vast collection from stone age, bronze to iron. large medieval section, sadly not many modern knives but very good, staff is knowledgable and actually fair prices on giftshop (paid 5€ for a hardcover book on special purpose knives)
>>64230775nearly finished
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>>64230882orc tier blade
>>64230892Some more cutlery incoming
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>>64218043are there any good books and methods on knife self-defense? specially against other guys that don't have a knife
>>64230909those were ornamental swords gifted to firefighters btw (i yearn to RETVRN to the days were every bloody special service job gifted daggers/swords on occasions #prussianthings)
>>64230921That being said, i may post more on another occasion for i am now too tired. Lets wrap it up with this engraved nice piece from 1761."The noble good german wine bestows each meal with honour and shine"
