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If the lockbar pivot is too tight that can make a knife stiff. Check that and the blade pivot a make sure neither is overtightened.
Much of the difference there will be the blade geometry, not all of it would be in the heat treat. if the phil wilson is half the thickness behind the edge, its going to cut much longer before it appears to dull (or dulls to the same perceivable level) as a blade that's twice the thickness behind the edge.
your other data in relation to the 110v only shows that a harder blade stays sharp for longer than a lower RC when the thickness is similar (to be expected), but better geometry (even with the lower RC) blade trumps both. again to be expected.
so unless we know the thickness behind the edge of the cru wear military vs phil wilson cru wear then it means nothing, and its all in the geo.
When you get into the steels like maxamet etc its all going to be heat treated via computer/ temperature controlled furnaces & professional equipment. There is no guy dipping the maxamet blade into oil or watching for its change in colour before quenching. I would be willing to bet the heat treatment is done by companies who specialise in heat treatments and perform heat treatments on all kinds of steels for the tool making & industrial manufacturing applications. They will have furnaces where they set the temp scale / ramp & time in a computer and walk away. (for example we have a company down here called heat treatments who have a massive premises with dozens of high tech computer controlled vacuum furnaces, precisely controlled cryo chambers and everything in between.)
I guess what Im getting at, is unless something went very wrong along the process somewhere, the heat treating will be done by a company who is more than capable of heat treating it however anyone wants its heat treated. The steel has heat treat info & specs developed by, and provided by the company who invented it, which can be precisely followed by any heat treatment company worth their salt to get the desired outcome.
granted there will be an "ideal" and it may take some R&D to find the ideal mix of hardness/toughness for knife blades, but once it was known it could be duplicated by any good company with the right equipment.
if they do bulk heat treat, its hard to get every blade heat treated exactly the same.Spyderco has said that their heat treatment is done in house. They also develop and tweak the heat treat themselves. Sure, the foundry gives them a heat treat protocol to start with but they take it from there and do their own thing. That is the impression I have gotten. I believe that post above contains some incorrect assumptions. I also think it is incorrect to say that target hardness is a 5 point range. That is just silly. They target a much smaller range than that. Sure, there can be a variation of a point in either direction from target hardness but they are shooting for as much consistancy as possible.
I agree with the comments about geometry but as far as the rest goes I ain't buying it.
Well, It does not look like these will make October either.
Hopefully they will ship in November! :thumbup:
The steel is probably going through their machines like crazy!
At least, that's would I would assume from a steel like Maxamet.
I just want those gray handles...
Are these production knives or sprint runs? Another question - the Maxamet Manix 2 will be only LW or there will be a regular G10 model?
I just got my notification that mine is shipping today!
Woo- Hoo :thumbup::thumbup: