I love how easily the cruwear strops right back to sticky edge sharpness

This is an encouraging video. Just picked up an cruwear PM2. Thank you for your eagerness to help us out!

Great video, very informative as I have all 3 steels which are my Keeper Spydercos. Many thanks for sacrificing your blade edges during the demo 👍👌🏻👍😊

I just found your channel really liked the test u did in the different steels and show how they each hold up to the abuse a new subscriber hope to see more 👍

Awesome channel bro I appreciate you doing this to your knives for our info

You help a lot of knife guys out finding out Whitch is the best steel and we appreciate it

Great tests, thank you so much!

I applaud you for doing these tests, I could “feel your pain” as the edges contacted the test subjects. I’d consider, a not doing these with new knives, but if you must I’d suggest like putting a pencil through the lanyard hole and rotating up the blade to a measured height before letting it fall/rotate to somewhat standardize the tests. But then again I’m sitting on my butt reading while you are sacrificing virgin blades, so your opinion matters.

It's awesome you're doing these tests. I would like to see a direct test of S30V, S35VN, S45VN, and Cru-Wear to answer the question of A) how significant of an improvement is S45 over the more common 35/30, and B) how do the first three compare to a steel associated with the toughness of Cru-Wear in terms of everyday use? It would also give us an early look of how big of a real world improvement S45 is over the base S30, and could be used to argue whether or not S45 should replace S30 as Spyderco's base steel on the PM2/3.

I liked the vid. Thanks for doing the test

This is a good test being a mechanic for years. I use a knife like a knife I scrape gaskets off steel an aluminum, I've cut wires ( usually copper) lots of wire ties an much more material. I like xhp really to be honest I use coldsteel because of back lock after liners folded up on me twice an cut me good once. Another thing I've hit is nails in wood but all in all I've not found a reason to pay high dollar for knives when so many great knives are under$100 an d2 has did me next best really my favorite cheap steel I've not had luck with s35vn its either soft or chippy I have not used coldsteel but have used spyderco s35vn my knife is a roll the edge steel. Lot of money in knives brother nice video this is how we figure if they are really different or a money game. I will say I'll take soft over chippy any day way easier to strop then edge profile have a good one

Cruwear is by far my favourite steel (I've used do far). I'm sure there's better steels out there, but I've got experience with all the favorites.. 420HC, VG10, VGMAX, 154CM, S30V, S35VN, S110V, 20CV (second favourite), M4, 52100. Cruwear reigns supreme in my opinion.

love all blade steel toughness test video

You were right in saying there was inconsistencies in the rock test. The length of the knife throws off how hard you hit the rock 😁👍.

I could feel your pain once the deformation started with the staples brother😂, I appreciate you continuing in spirit of video and testing for us 💪🏽✌🏽. I would’ve been cancel the testing 😂, I remember when I smack the tip of my PM 2 and burred the tip of the blade, I was crying 😅, I was able to sharpen it and smooth it out . Lol

Thanks for the rock test. I needed a laugh today. Gave my Blurple's tip the 3 foot concrete drop test the first week. Lost over an 1/8.

Thank you for this video

Could you please provide a link to the microscope you used in the video?

Thanks for making this video and for the results... i appreciate ur sacrifice for the data, and like erica says "use ur sh*t"

Fuck yea man... I'm Stoked your doing this.

Great vid brother....

Over an hour and you have no conclusions. Good job, buddy.

Which of those 3 blade steels has the highest HRC?

Great work, thanks for the video!

Nice knives and tests.

K390 strikes a really good balance for me…its edge retention is absolutely top shelf. I’ve rolled through what felt like miles of cardboard and the working edge stays completely intact. I’ve never had a chip and even in the northeast, with all sorts of fucked up weather, no rust…maybe a bit of color but that’s it. Being an enthusiastic freehand sharpener, Cruwear is still my favorite steel…but K390 is really, REALLY up there. There isn’t much downside there unless you sweat acid or work at out sea.

Favorite steel so far? Im quite curious!

Could you comment on the difference of sharpening after all these works? I think this will be a great chance to compare their sharpening ability and time. Thank you.

Great comp. I wish Spyderco would make a K390 Para2, 3.

I love how's he's like I love the cruwear as he's holding the k390 had me confused

I may have missed it. But what stones did you use to sharpen. Particularly the s110v. Were they diamond stones?

Gold video🎉🎉❤

Great testing and microscopic can u do maxamet.

Cruware is not my favorite steel. I don't typically run my knives into obstacles such as rocks and staples, so do not require its main attributes. Corosion resistance and edge retention during normal cutting tasks are more important to me, so zdp, 110, 90, and more recently, rex45, maxamet and 15. Thanks for a great, comprehensive reveiw. Still ho,ds up, all these years later.👍

Very interesting and unusual video. This week I have purchased a Manix 2 in Maxamet based on edge retention but I have no idea which steel has the best toughness. Greetings from Spain.

This video should be named Spyderco K390 vs Spyderco Cruwear VS Spyderco S110V

You whack it a lot lol! Nice video bro. I need to get me some k390!🤘👊

I did try test like this long time ago but different test medium (Aluminium, Copper, Brass and Steel) I was comparing S7 ,D2 and S35VN and all 3 perform similarly.. Aluminium and Copper did absolutely nothing and put on 3 mirror 0.25micron edge with no damage at all but ones I came to brass the damage was significant and steel with comparable result.. Rex 45 and k390 should perform best in this regard cause this test is more towards the edge stability than the actual toughness of the steel.. I'm surprised with S110V results.. Good job Kenny..

"it'll still cut you" lmao I've cut people with my army issue mess kit spoon. Not the plastic spoon from the MRE although that would probably work too. It's all about how much effort you are willing to use.

My police 4 FULL serrated K390..blew me away...so the toughest folder i have

God man, I applaud you!! Not many people can take $500-600 in three knives and beat the piss out of them. 😬😳 I LOVE my CruCarta Para2 though and I’m getting ready to add a K390 stretch 2 to my Spydie collection. I have zero interest in S110V though. I want a Spydie in Magnacut soooooooo bad though.

Great video! Next test use the para 3 with different blade steels to have a more accurate result then using lets say a shaman, para 2, and a para 3!!!🤓🤓🤓

Bro loved this video! Watched the whole damn thing! Currently in turmoil as to what steels to go for on my pm2 and Para 3! Whether to go for the stainless s90v or s110v or cruwear or maxamet tool steel! 😂 I'm sort of thinking both but my bank isn't!! 😂

Mils and MM are two differnt units. 1 Millimetres = 39.3701 Mils: 10 Millimetres = 393.7 Mils: 2500 Millimetres = 98425.2 . You can't say Mils when you are meaning Millimetres.

Can you do a pry test with the tip

Love the video but damn as soon as you scraped that zip tie I got chills and had to mute the video! 😂

I love my cruwear para3 and my 52100 para3 for toughness but I deff have wanted to try k390 and m4! I also have a native in maxamet but just cannot seem to get the edge as sharp as I'd like so it's been set side till I get some diamond sprays for stropping

Damn 🫣

Wish a tip test was done.

#edgesnobprobs "I dont have any hair" hahaha

Seki City K390 is higher heat treat than Golden Colorado. By a bunch.

gotta find a way to condense these videos. i thought super steel steve was long winded..........

23:53.....#cringe!!haha great vid bro with exactly what i wanted to see.thank you for f@#king up your edge's so i don't have to lol😂🤣😂

You should use plain and more consistent stone to be precise!!

I'd like to see you test s30v, s35vn, and xhp

All three of those are excellent steels. I want to see a comparison with K390, Rex45, 10V, Vanadis4Extra, and either MagnaCut or Cru-wear.

Is your neighbor's diesel truck a ford?

What you call “gouges” I call ticks. What you call “whacks” I call taps. (My wife thinks I’m a weird man)

I could be hearing wrong, but I thought I heard this kid say "cheap S110v steel". From what I hear, S110v is a super steel that is not cheap.

Troy?

You scraped a zip tie instead of using the knife to cut it like people normally would??? 🤔

K390

Amazing how poorly cut the masking tape is for someone with 3 sharp knives on his bench. Just sayin'. 🙂 And thanks for the video.

*120 minutes? Are you free king kidding?* Its just a knife!

I bought a 940-1? The 110v with carbon fiber, cut some dirty nylon straps and chippy describes it perfectly, none of my other steels did that. Garbage imo.

It might not be rolls on those blades, it might be the shitty metal your smacking em' into

Dude eaes up on the blow and start the video.

Dude, why are you using a $200 knife to cut cardboard? Why not use a three dollar box cutter? If you want to test toughness use wood, rubber and get some bones from the butcher.

CPM Cru-Wear is FAR superior to K390.... in toughness, wear resistance, edge retention, etc..... K390 is a great knife steel, but it’s not in the same class as Cru-Wear.

Wow, this is slow....

Totally unwatchable. 9 minutes to, sort of, describe what you are going to do, then you repeat yourself at every step AND you stop doing anything while you talk! Constructive criticism: describe the intent of the "test" in 60 seconds. If you can't summarize it in a minute, you haven't thought about what you are really going to be testing yet. Next, don't punish viewers by telling us over and over and over what you are GOING to do, just DO it. Summarize results, don't take each step as another opportunity to ramble. I'll end with this, testing should always, always, test ONE variable at a time. That means either a user edge, or a factory edge. If you don't have all factory edges, sharpen them all the exact same way. Test them all the exact same way. And don't treat viewers like they are children. Yes, we know if you can SEE deflection and chipping on a blade it is not going to cut very well. That's a given, it doesn't require 5 minutes of reiteration.

😲You really should do your wacking behind closed doors!

I applaud you for doing these tests, I could “feel your pain” as the edges contacted the test subjects. I’d consider, a not doing these with new knives, but if you must I’d suggest like putting a pencil through the lanyard hole and rotating up the blade to a measured height before letting it fall/rotate to somewhat standardize the tests. But then again I’m sitting on my butt reading while you are sacrificing virgin blades, so your opinion matters