Spyderco fanboy thread

[blues]

Damn, I feel old. I remember when 440C was a standard and 154CM was the shit.

I remember those days. They weren't even that long ago. 90's.

[Chuck Whitlock]

I remember those days. They weren't even that long ago. 90's.

Yeah. Proof that you evolve or stagnate. Anything beyond that is far, far out of my lane.

[41magfan]

Damn, I feel old. I remember when 440C was a standard and 154CM was the shit.

Yea, me too. However, I am continually amused at all the derp that prevails regarding the merits of various knife steels by people who have never (outside of their fantasies) used a knife for anything but opening a box or a piece of mail.

[blues]

Yea, me too. However, I am continually amused at all the derp that prevails regarding the merits of various knife steels by people who have never (outside of their fantasies) used a knife for anything but opening a box or a piece of mail.

Chain mail is tough stuff.

(Truth is, we can say the same thing about most gun "aficionados". I guess the old saw "beware the man with one gun" has some basis in reality.)

It's one thing to collect 'em because you like 'em and appreciate 'em, it's another thing to put any tool to hard use.

[Joe S]

Damn, I feel old. I remember when 440C was a standard and 154CM was the shit.

Hell, before we even made the 154CM, and it was ATS-34 out of Japan.

[blues]

Kit Carson loved 440C and D2 back in the day. If it was good enough for Kit, it was good enough.

[Duelist]

dad still forges 52100.

I've used a lot of different steels, but they are mostly high carbon tool steels like O1, 1095, 52100, and stuff like that. 440C was a big deal and pissed the old man off that I'd wasted the money to buy the bar of steel.

Made a darn good knife, though, and traded a guy for a muzzleloading rifle for it.

Haven't forged anything in years, now. Ought to get back to it.

[blues]

dad still forges 52100.

I've used a lot of different steels, but they are mostly high carbon tool steels like O1, 1095, 52100, and stuff like that. 440C was a big deal and pissed the old man off that I'd wasted the money to buy the bar of steel.

Made a darn good knife, though, and traded a guy for a muzzleloading rifle for it.

Haven't forged anything in years, now. Ought to get back to it.

Duelist, would I know your dad? Hit me up via PM if you think I might.

I love me some forged 52100. Have some nice pieces by Rick Dunkerley, Dan Farr, Ray Kirk, (all ABS master smiths), and some others. Ed Fowler can take a lot of credit for its popularity over the past few decades.

I just sold a forged wootz piece by Al Pendray this past week.

[Joe S]

Kit Carson loved 440C and D2 back in the day. If it was good enough for Kit, it was good enough.

What was interesting even 20-30 years ago was that what we had, we had, and that was it. A lot of fine craftsmen learned how to wring everything they could out of a steel in its heat treat.

Nothing wrong with 440C that's properly done. I still think D2 is a tremendously underrated steel.

[5pins]

I remember when ATS-34 was the bomb.