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TO THE POINT

When it comes to the knives I have carried as my “EDC,” most of my work demands the reliability of the point and the cutting edge. As a simple demonstration, from about shoulder height I drop a knife point down onto a cement floor. BLADE® Editor Steve Shackleford saw my demonstration at the last BLADE Show and asked me how I achieved a point of a knife that could withstand that kind of torture. Thus, this article came to be—I hope.

It’s at this point many times that I am lost at how to write what I want to say in order that readers will understand. Bear with me and hopefully it will all come out in the wash.

WHICH STEEL?

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