I found some info online researching the knife, some of it from the designer of the knife: Quote Lance Clinton 1 year ago 1.27K subscribers Hey Slicey Dicey, thanks for the review and feedback. I hope you don’t mind if I borrow your comment section to offer a little background on the Siren design. The Siren actually WAS designed as an EDC knife and not a “fishing knife” per se. It jusby jasonstone20 - New Knives, and New to You Knives
So I got this knife from Sal as a 2nd, but as a gift(thanks Sal!), because apparently there was a lock-pop issue with the first runs of the knife. I am on the lookout for the lock-pop issue, but so far my knife doesn't exhibit it. I did use the Spyderco Goldenstone to give it a maintenance/touch-up sharpening, 10 PPS, and then stopped on my vintage CERTIF'D CCCP Russian Leather hanginby jasonstone20 - New Knives, and New to You Knives
Well, since I got that new Spyderco from Sal, this evaluation is going to be put on hold until I get done testing out the Siren.by jasonstone20 - New Knives, and New to You Knives
What about these? Sandrin made quite a splash a few years ago.by jasonstone20 - General
Sal, I got the knife you sent me on Sunday. It is a very nicely manufactured knife and has one of if not the best factory edges I have ever come across. It tree-tops my arm hair and still will slice folded paper towels. I really like the G10, it is more aggressive than Emerson G10, which I like, especially for a nautical/water knife. This knife reminds me of the Spyderco Wayne Goddard but wiby jasonstone20 - General
Chris, Are these cast bullets just for target practice?by jasonstone20 - Firearms
Chris, Not really. I still use the newer Norton Economy or Craftsman stone (C) side for rebevelng. The IC is an M Crystolon and an F India, and the M Crystolon is closer to the F side of the Norton Economy stone than it is the C side.by jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
There are a few things in here, but I want to focus on the sharpening stones because they come very close to being similar types of stones to what the 3step method uses. SunTiger #220 Rough Stone King Hyper #1000 King Deluxe #1000 Kitayama #8000 Diamond #300 Stone Fixer Items Vincent uses in this video: Korin Black Nylon Knife Bag: ... SunTiger #220 Rough Stone: -... King Hypeby jasonstone20 - Video Reviews
Chris, One combo stone, the IC series.by jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
Chris, I am with the Norton IC6 Crystolon(M)/(F) India stone, but my angles are just lifting the blade barely off the stone.by jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
QuoteMillscale The fact is that, when asked, you should always be able to prove you are carrying the thing for a good reason (other than self defense, nothing is allowed in the case). That is the point I am trying to stress here, the ownness is on the state to show you are doing something illegal. And again, how did carrying a tool for self-defense become outlawed in so many places? That souby jasonstone20 - Video Reviews
Chris, Oh, yeah, I would love to have a knife in F2by jasonstone20 - General
sal, Oh wow! Thank you very much!by jasonstone20 - General
Chris, I am just using so Norton Combo stones now, but I have a ton of sharpening stones. My ability wasn't really the focus of the post, sorry for the deception, but I always wondered what someone with a lot of sharpening skill used all of the above techniques and instead of taking 30-45 min to sharpen, could do the same thing in 5 min with 3Step or Plateau sharpening. My sharpening skilby jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
Chris, The thing is a lot of the good sharpeners don't do a lot of the steps. I usually do all the steps, as well as using the 3Step method or plateau method, as well as appropriate stones for those steps. I also usually don't strop, which is another thing a lot of sharpeners do.by jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
Chris, No, he freehands.by jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
Chris, Yeah, guys like Michael Christy don't use almost any of those techniques, and he gets great results, often with edges 15°DPS and on high carbide steels with hard stones (diamonds and ceramics)by jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
I got the bigger Lansky Responder X9 last week. It is massive and heavy, it dwarfs the EDC Responder: 9.125" (X9) vs 8" (EDC) OAL. 3.625" (X9) vs 3.125" (EDC) Cutting Edge, 1.75" (X9) vs 1.5" (EDC) Blade Height at Heel, 5.75" (X9) vs. 4.75" (EDC) Handle Length. 8.4 oz vs 5.5 oz It does feel like it has better build quality, but that couldby jasonstone20 - New Knives, and New to You Knives
cKc, Also, one of the problems with the NYC laws being enforced is how they quantified a 'gravity' knife. This is a gravity knife: A Spyderco Tenacious is not a gravity knife, but it was being treated like one. And I see zero advantage of a gravity knife over a Tenacious in lethality or opening speed.by jasonstone20 - Video Reviews
I am not that great of a knife sharpener. The only reason I can get decent results is that I cheat: I use micro-bevels I back sharpen I cross the scratch pattern I draw the edge through wood I condition my stones, as well as flatten them I use very low (closer to a zero-edge) angles I use a vintage Russian leather and linen hanging strop I sharpen to a high grit finish I use light prby jasonstone20 - General Sharpening
Quoteme2 When I get all my reloading caught up I plan to move my knife stuff back in. My first project is a new set of kitchen knives with optimized geometry. I want to use a steel soft enough to be filed. A repurposed Cold Steel machete would be about perfect. For those, I want an edge thickness less than 0.005”. Yeah, I am focusing on LockSport myself when I am feeling well. I did tell mby jasonstone20 - Geometry
QuotecKc While I agree and have heard NY is bad, I would also be careful of taking the word of any other group without good evidence of misuse of the law. people can be fanatical. I also see a lot of fanatics talking about their rights, and basing their assumptions that their rights are more important than others' rights (misuse of freedom of speech to invade people's personal spaby jasonstone20 - Video Reviews
sal, I am also interested in buying one of the 2nd's. How do I go about doing that?by jasonstone20 - General
Kyle Noseworthy has come a long way from just making knife-sharpening videos. In this video, he repairs and restores a 3 piece Wusthof wedding knife set that a "professional' did:by jasonstone20 - Video Reviews
Quoteme2 I’d like the thickness at the top of the bevel to be less than 0.01”. That makes for easy sharpening and for that knife it won’t have any strength issues. Amazing how strong steel is, and how thin you can get them as long as you don't do dumb things like use your knife as a pry bar.by jasonstone20 - Geometry
cKc, Yes, I agree. The youth gang thing is a sign of other issues. In LA, they banned hammers and screwdrivers, because you would get arrested for carrying a knife, so the gang members switched to hammers and screwdrivers. As you said in the Philippines, they use improvised weapons (broken bottles) and the fights were a cultural issue. You can legislate morals and common decency along with cby jasonstone20 - Video Reviews
This is a video of a lawyer in the UK talking about knife laws there. Knives featured: Spyderco UK Penknife Gerber Dime French Corkscrew The ridiculous things are that if you carry the Spyderco UK, it is classified as an offensive weapon, and then it is illegal, and also the fact they have a huge problem with knife crime now also, so the laws are not working. Funny how that works. Thby jasonstone20 - Video Reviews
These have been around for a while, and I think one of them will be the last purchase of my "Budget Knife Roundup" project I have been working on for the last few years. Anyway, this is seems to have the best set of features for a budget knife: different blade shapes, different colored handles, different size blades, and my two favorites, and opening hole and a flipper tab.by jasonstone20 - General
I was talking to Kyley Harris (cKc) a while back and he was telling me that his main bevels are basically what most people would call micro-bevels. I decided to try that out myself, so I started thinning out my knives so my main bevel was basically a micro-bevel. Here is a picture of how I used to have my bevels and how I have them now. You can see with the Victorinox Sentinal that there is baby jasonstone20 - Geometry