Sandrin - Tungsten Carbide @71 HRC?

[Multum in parvo]

Not that I need another knife but as I was looking for a Titanium watch I thought about a superlight summer carry with a twist.

Anybody heard from them or has experiences with their products?

Blade is 1.3mm thin, has a hardness of 71 HRC yet should not shatter like a crystal, completely rustproof and possibly only resharpable with Kryptonite

Torino Carbon Fiber – Sandrin Knives Global

global.sandrinknives.com

 

[Legion]

Presumably the market here is people who can't, or don't want to sharpen their knife. So making the worlds most unsharpenable knife also make it pretty much disposable.

 

[ZeelandsRoem]

possibly only resharpable with Kryptonite

They can be sharpened with diamond stones and paste which do not cost much, for example.

 

[Multum in parvo]

Edge retention should be insane so resharpening might really only be needed if you do something profoundly dumb with it.

 

[Legion]

Edge retention should be insane so resharpening might really only be needed if you do something profoundly dumb with it.

In my experience all edc knives get dumbed at some point. That might be just me, though. My edc gets carried almost ed.

 

[Multum in parvo]

In my experience all edc knives get dumbed at some point. That might be just me, though. My edc gets carried almost ed.

Things happen but I have a wide variety of knives better suited for rough work.

 

[Herrenberg]

Not that I need another knife but as I was looking for a Titanium watch I thought about a superlight summer carry with a twist.

Anybody heard from them or has experiences with their products?

Blade is 1.3mm thin, has a hardness of 71 HRC yet should not shatter like a crystal, completely rustproof and possibly only resharpable with Kryptonite

Torino Carbon Fiber – Sandrin Knives Global

global.sandrinknives.com

I can see why you want to hear from someone with experience with the knife. The site is a bit, um, zesty.

They say it is best sharpened with diamond grinding wheels, and is best sharpened by professionals. Then they say you can sharpen it at home on diamond. The whole site is like that, sort of weirdly upbeat and hard to pin down. Doesn't mean it's a bad knife, but one could wish for a different mix of exuberant marketing talk and engineering talk.

And if it chips, well, they offer a blade replacement service. Didn't see anything that said that would be warranty work. Nor anything that said you could hope to grind out chips yourself.

 

[Multum in parvo]

I can see why you want to hear from someone with experience with the knife. The site is a bit, um, zesty.

They say it is best sharpened with diamond grinding wheels, and is best sharpened by professionals. Then they say you can sharpen it at home on diamond. The whole site is like that, sort of weirdly upbeat and hard to pin down. Doesn't mean it's a bad knife, but one could wish for a different mix of exuberant marketing talk and engineering talk.

And if it chips, well, they offer a blade replacement service. Didn't see anything that said that would be warranty work. Nor anything that said you could hope to grind out chips yourself.

I had the chance to handle a few Rockstead knives which are in the high 60s. Still they have thicker stock are made from steel so there is a way sharpen them. My foray into ceramic (kitchen) knives was a big mistake that I don’t want to make again.

I won’t rush it and will dig a bit more around.

 

[ZeelandsRoem]

In my experience all edc knives get dumbed at some point

I don’t know about others, but that’s my definition of edc. Will get the edge wrecked in the first five minutes, but at least I get the job done.

 

[Herrenberg]

My foray into ceramic (kitchen) knives was a big mistake that I don’t want to make again.

Same. Ceramic peelers are great, though. Reasonably cheap, so you can throw it away when it goes dull, and the edge lasts a long time because you're not whacking it into a cutting board and microchipping it.

 

[Steve56]

Agree, the ceramic peelers are da bomb. The blades don’t rust from acidic or other corrosive foods, or moisture, which can be difficult to remove well from a peeler. Plastic handles, ceramic blades work for me.

 

[Multum in parvo]

Well, curiosity killed the cat. Ordered one today…

 

[Legion]

Well, curiosity killed the cat. Ordered one today…

Let us know how in works out. But you have to carry it every day for a long while. Cant measure edge retention if it is in a rotation of 435 knives. Then I need a sharpening report.

 

[Multum in parvo]

Let us know how in works out. But you have to carry it every day for a long while. Cant measure edge retention if it is in a rotation of 435 knives. Then I need a sharpening report.

I'll try to have it as my preferred summer knife but tbh I'm not sure I would be able to sharpen it with the limited stones (no diamonds in any form) that I have available right now.

I could also use it to break up cardboard boxes instead of my usual Moras/Hultafors but looking at the rope cutting video I doubt that it will suffer tremendously.

 

[Legion]

I'll try to have it as my preferred summer knife but tbh I'm not sure I would be able to sharpen it with the limited stones (no diamonds in any form) that I have available right now.

I could also use it to break up cardboard boxes instead of my usual Moras/Hultafors but looking at the rope cutting video I doubt that it will suffer tremendously.

No way buddy. You just committed to pulling over and dressing every road kill you pass until it gets blunt. Then scrape the old paint off a weatherboard house, and cut a bag of marbles in half.

Nobody made you buy that knife...

 

[Multum in parvo]

No way buddy. You just committed to pulling over and dressing every road kill you pass until it gets blunt. Then scrape the old paint off a weatherboard house, and cut a bag of marbles in half.

Nobody made you buy that knife...

We will rename this thread "Weird things I cut today"

 

[Whisky]

resharpening might really only be needed if you do something profoundly dumb with it.

Challenge Accepted

 

[Multum in parvo]

So it arrived 5 minutes ago.

Initial impressions: excellent built quality, blade doesn’t feel flimsy, edge feels toothy

Obviously sharp out of the box but it doesn’t glide totally effortless through material. Actually it feels rather mundane going through cardboard, just like with any other steel knife that is of similar thickness. So the great unknown remains the edge retention.

 

[Multum in parvo]

 

[Legion]

When you do need to touch it up, what are you going to use? Diamond plate, presumably?