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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.

You can use a soldering iron to heat the screw and melt the loctite

I thought you where failing to cut the hair but you where actually stripping it 😭👌🏻 wauw

@ 2:35 you can always tell a knife guy from the bald spots on their forearms haha

Once you get the g10 a little filthy it looks more blue, mine does at least

The difference in the two may be the grinds, if the hollow m4 was flat ground they may be almost exactly the same

Yaaaa I think I made a mistake when I got a Benchmade in M4 rather than a Spyderco. For a LOT of reasons.🙃🙄

Man you & pete & outpost 76 need to be hired as contractors by all the big steel companies for all the information yall develope for all these knives! thanks for your time and wisdom Michael

Rec really needs to make a 10v manix2. It's literally the knife I most want made currently.

Cruwear is amoung my fav steels to Sharpen. It's really really lovely on the stones when it's done well, the keenness that a fresh edge has is absolutely amazing with cruwear. As you said "it's a sharpeners steel" it isn't picky on edge finish and it does great at very low angles. I really love sharpening cruwear.

U have a genius mind Michael, thanks for always sharing ur thoughts

Hopefully u are right...i'd love some maxamet in my collection

How has your edge held up over a while? I bought a pm2 2 weeks ago. It’s complete junk. The edge rolled twice. I was able to fix it by stropping, tells me it’s soft. And has a chip. I have only cut open boxes at work and one time, cut weedeater string.

This is like a Cliff Stamp video

Where you at bro ? Hope you're well 🙌🇨🇵

Hi my friend! Your videos are some of the best on internet! Congrats! I'm from Brazil and enjoy it very much. Why did you stop doing it? You and BBB should be the top 5 in this area. Hope you are doing great!

IF such a knife accidentally falls from the table - it can cut off a toe :)

Great video

This exact knife is what I have carried every day. Great utility, ergonomics, and some intimidating self defense in a pinch. Looks like I have some shopping to do to get this blade back in order. Thanks for the video!

People are gonna say u cant do that, michael christy says "well, i just did"..... omg i love it! Man u rock mike!

Is that your sharpening technique? Holding the stone in hand?

I won't be cutting any cardboard but I will be opening fertilizer bags, cutting bands on pallets of bricks, cutting zip ties, reaming pvc pipe, and whatever other mundane cutting tasks my job requires. I've already ordered a PM2 in S45VN so I really hope it holds up.

Hoping one day to get a Michael Christy video on Magnacut 😂

It doesn’t keep them away 😂 my experience with them is there’s at least 2 pricks that take customer service calls and emails. I’ve never spoken with someone there (once at least was the owner I can’t remember his name) that didn’t start with a smart ass reply and end with them being super defensive. But I still buy from them if they have something I want. Including this exact knife. They’re pretty horrible people, but I like knives and don’t care really because I can give it back as good as they can 😂

Hey Mike, I'd like to get into free hand sharpening. What stones would you recommend, along with stroping!

Miss the vids mike!!!

I carried an Osborne with s90v exclusively for about 4 years and never had any issues with chipping. I carried a Spyderco “blurple” s110v and it chipped within the first few weeks, then again when I tried to sharpen out the chip.

its not the size of the abrasive, it's what you're doing with it. I don't even use diamond slurry anywhere near that fine and I can my steels to whittle or cut hair. 20+ um, 6 um, 3 um, 2 um, doesn't matter. These two steels are vastly different to sharpen. zdp is fine with regular waterstones. hap40 you have to grit down, or better off just using diamond. Or at least silicon carbide. I often use SIC for both. Shapton pro 220 or 320 and a king neo 800. but the zdp189 I can polish like say 10k chosera or 12k shapton pro and it's good to go. The hap40 I would strop on something like 6 um diamond at least, if not courser, then finish on something like 3 um or 2 um. zdp is much easier to sharpen and much easier to get to a very high keenness. It also holds the edge maybe 20% better and even more for the fine edge. The fine edge holding on hap40 isn't great. For kitchen knives hap40 makes basically zero sense over R2/SG2. The extra hardness means nothing, it's harder to sharpen and it doesn't stay sharp any longer than R2/SG2 does. It's also not stainless and at very high hardness like the 68 rc sukenari it readily rusts. I have another one from cktg that's 65 rc doesn't rust anything like the 68 rc sukenari.

Where you at Michael? Hope you’re doing well brother

Hello Michael What aobut your videos? I miss your sharpening videos. Hope you are OK.

I miss Michael’s awesome videos.

I sharpen them with a mill file. I works just fine

I didn't like your sharpening man, you sharp the knives in the air, that's wrong.One rule always sharp on surface not in the air holding the stones or DMT in one hand!

Great video! If m4 has better edge retention and toughness then is there any reason to choose rex45? Sounds like m4 is just better, no?

Sure am missing Michael cristy I learned so so much from your videos I sure wish you would start making videos again you’re content had enormous value for the edge geeks

My first experience with Cruwear was a purple DLT para 3 which was sharp out of the box,i refined the edge on the sharpmaker brown and fine rods (15dps) at which point it was hair whittling/splitting sharp,i continued refinement on the ultra fine rods and after that i could cut free hanging hair tip to root and root to tip,as Michael says it is a sharpeners steel😁👍

How long would the para 3 last before its too thick behind the edge? looks like 10-12 sharpenings? then is it useless?

Looks like a pretty excellent knife

Would love to get your take on Spyderco’s 15V

Two awesome steels imo . 👍👍 very good

cruwear loses its toughness quickly if you harden past the sweet spot

Practical sharpening should make u their spokesperson, their is no better person for that. U are awesome Michael

U get to the point and dont exaggerate or falsely hype up any product, also u give credit justly. U are a plethora of information and very wise. This is why we love ur videos, thanks Michael

I like the fire footage, very raw, awesome steel

Spyderco aren’t even made in the USA. Wake up guys, now is the time to take a stance!

Your technique is quite interesting.

Great video 👍🙂

Great video!

wish you could try out the kizer harpoon in the 10v...nice little fixed blade...would love to know how the kizer 10v compares to the k2....i have a k2...love it..just never carry it simply because its so rare now

I guess it really is the heat treat cause bbb has a vid with pm2m4 and pm2rex and the rex kicked its ass on the brass rod test