There are a ton of Spyderco results on the website, because the people doing the testing are fully aware of the performance of Spyderco knives. They tend to purchase Spyderco knives because of this. Or so I’m told🤔
BetterInsideTheBox
I think this has a lot more to do with the mix of steels used and available for testing. This is a worthless chart of mixed metals.
boywithflippers
Spyderco uses basically ever steel under the sun that can be made into a blade. I guarantee that number is offset heavily by the fact that they use REX121, Maxamet and M4. I don’t think Spyderco needs to call anyone out…they’ve got a pretty solid reputation as it is.
3amGreenCoffee
No, they’re not calling out anybody. They just don’t get first dibs at the bleeding edge steels if they don’t maintain quality control and ace the heat treatment.
Dustytraveller4
Lumping all knives together regardless of blade steels for some kind of ranking is ridiculous
Forge__Thought
Gabe Newell approach.
Do nothing, win. Just keep doing what you have been doing.
Trip_Dubs
Seems like a lot of tests for disposable box openers.
BeCoolBear
They out-manufacture every other entry here so of course there are more tests.
Worth-Silver-484
Completely useless chart. What metal? Spydie ia also one of the few that uses maxamet and rex 121. Do those 70 hrc blades get calculated into the average?
mattenthehat
I don’t even understand what you mean by that. Like, did they make some kind of statement or something?
Edgewise24
They use a billion different steels and several of them are HSTS which run way up to 64-70 rockwell C.
the_mellojoe
If a knife company makes 100 different knives out of 1 type of steel, then you only really need 2 or 3 tests to validate the entire lineup.
If a knife company makes 1 knife out of 100 different steels, then you’ll need 100 different tests to validate each steel.
I am not at all surprised that Spyderco would have the most tests because they use the most steels. It has nothing to do with calling anyone out, it’s just how their catalog works. They have made a reputation by trying and even inventing lots of different types of steels.
AssistanceJust4951
Spyderco makes tons of knives from a wide variety of steels in large numbers and does it better than anyone at that scale of production. And maxamet, rex121, m4 skew the average….median hrc would be different. Spyderco is not a Chinese OEM making everything out of m390.
kennethsime
Whatever website this is looks asinine.
You test an array of steels and rank avg hardness?
So they’re lumping in 15V with H1?
The underlying assumption with the rankings as presented is hard = good, which is about as stupid as someone who knows nothing about heat treating knife blades asking who did the heat treat on a particular batch of knives.
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Who cares?
There are a ton of Spyderco results on the website, because the people doing the testing are fully aware of the performance of Spyderco knives. They tend to purchase Spyderco knives because of this. Or so I’m told🤔
I think this has a lot more to do with the mix of steels used and available for testing. This is a worthless chart of mixed metals.
Spyderco uses basically ever steel under the sun that can be made into a blade. I guarantee that number is offset heavily by the fact that they use REX121, Maxamet and M4. I don’t think Spyderco needs to call anyone out…they’ve got a pretty solid reputation as it is.
No, they’re not calling out anybody. They just don’t get first dibs at the bleeding edge steels if they don’t maintain quality control and ace the heat treatment.
Lumping all knives together regardless of blade steels for some kind of ranking is ridiculous
Gabe Newell approach.
Do nothing, win. Just keep doing what you have been doing.
Seems like a lot of tests for disposable box openers.
They out-manufacture every other entry here so of course there are more tests.
Completely useless chart. What metal? Spydie ia also one of the few that uses maxamet and rex 121. Do those 70 hrc blades get calculated into the average?
I don’t even understand what you mean by that. Like, did they make some kind of statement or something?
They use a billion different steels and several of them are HSTS which run way up to 64-70 rockwell C.
If a knife company makes 100 different knives out of 1 type of steel, then you only really need 2 or 3 tests to validate the entire lineup.
If a knife company makes 1 knife out of 100 different steels, then you’ll need 100 different tests to validate each steel.
I am not at all surprised that Spyderco would have the most tests because they use the most steels. It has nothing to do with calling anyone out, it’s just how their catalog works. They have made a reputation by trying and even inventing lots of different types of steels.
Spyderco makes tons of knives from a wide variety of steels in large numbers and does it better than anyone at that scale of production. And maxamet, rex121, m4 skew the average….median hrc would be different. Spyderco is not a Chinese OEM making everything out of m390.
Whatever website this is looks asinine.
You test an array of steels and rank avg hardness?
So they’re lumping in 15V with H1?
The underlying assumption with the rankings as presented is hard = good, which is about as stupid as someone who knows nothing about heat treating knife blades asking who did the heat treat on a particular batch of knives.
I think spyderco is trying to set the standard