K390 👍 Boiled vinegar bath for a nice patina works wonders. Patina and then a nice oil with Ballistal etc. I'm in the PNW and have no problems.

Thanks for the information!

Rex76 is close on the HRC rating as Maxamet. Someone poked a mule team and got 69.3 hrc. Good stuff 😊

The point of the PM2 is fragile, no matter the steel. This is the only drawback of the PM2. It must be used with particular care. Excellent vid man 🖐😉!

I’ve chipped Maxamet on a para3 lw just taking the staples out of my pay stub🤦‍♂️ sharpened out though 👍🏻 very small chip

Great blade steels. I have a pm2 in maxamet and a k390 knife on the way. What kind of bugs me is that so many stainless steel knives are sold with a coating but these two carbon kings are not offered with one. Heck, the s45vn pm2 is offered that way.

Love the native 5 in maxamet. I own 2 now

Love the Delica form factor. So slicey, no matter what steel it is in, due to the thin blade, and fits my small hand. Have a few VG-10 that have to be touched up now and then. If dmaging the tip, it just bends. Would love to try the 390 though :)

What would be a very corrosion resistant steel with very high edge retention and a good wear resistance? I would be using it as a hunting knife for deer where I would need the best edge retention along with corrosion resistance as the knife would be getting a lot of blood and other corrosive fluids from the animals in the processing procedure. Thx

Have had good luck with EDCi on K390.

Good video. Never had maxamet. I’d go delica in k390 cause I know I can strop it back. Not so sure about the higher hardness maxamet Also prefer the thinner stock on delica. For everyday stuff I slice, I don’t stab often.

Cemented carbides....👏

And WD-40 rust so keep that in mind, I would use like a gun oil or knife oil

I dont use soap on my k390 and mine looks great (I do strop the sides of the knife with my green paste strop to keep it shiny though) and then put a thin layer of KPI all over it

Maxamet is great I wish more models were made in it also it patinas nicely if you cut some raw chicken or meat/onions and leave it for a little while give it a wash and a oil

K390 is tougher and has less edge retention than Maxamet. Long story short 👍🏻 great video. Love k390 so far. Have endela’s,endura’s,police 4’s and 2 para 3 in 10v which is very close to K390.

Birchwood Casey Gun Blue works wonders

I personally like touching up my knives, so i would never go beyond something like 154cm in edge retention, and this is the big one, where i live steels like k390, maxemet and magnacut are obscenely expensive , other wise id give one of these steels a try. PS. I can always hand any of my knives in a lesser steel like 14c28n to someone, and it'll be razor sharp

Spyderco discontinued a bunch of wharncliffes, because they didn‘t sell. And your girlfriend is wrong😉

I can tell you keep your knives for show and not users which is fine cause im the same way with 90 percent of my knives. The reason i say that is because your Para 2 in MAXAMET looks brand new.

manix 2 lw in rex45 for $150 on gp knives

Sage 5 maxamet is out 👍🏻

That rust will turn black eventually after cleaning with bartenders keep . Ends up looking pretty good imho . Takes a couple years naturally . I think they look better a little worn in . I’m not an edge retention queen either but I’ve noticed the difference using a better steel . It’s liking having a turbo in a v6 😊

You washing it with water is the problem wash it with oil only

None of spydercos maxamet knives will test 70 hrc. 69 is is like finding a holographic Charizard as a kid most are 67-68. Also, vanadium carbides are harder than tungsten carbides believe it or not!

14c28n is a tough steel, definitely tougher than both maxamet and k390. It won’t hold the edge like them, but it’s the closest to Magnacut steel. Vanadis 8 and K390 are very close steels. K390 is tougher than maxamet. Maxamet is second to Rex 121 in edge retention.