Spyderco Endura 4

[DaRkWoLf]

Tonight I intend to order a useful holiday gift for myself to conform with the capitalist tradition :dgrin:

I've been looking for a replacement for my Buck 110 that passes my cutting tests out of the box, is fast into action, is corrosion resistant/durable, and has a pocket clip so that I don't have to keep going through flea market horizontal knife pouches. I kind of want to keep it in the sub 100$+shipping price range, as well.

This is what I'm looking at: http://spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=233

For those that haven't seen my other posts on how I pick knives, passing my cutting test means that the blade can cleanly cut the skin at the top of my arm deep enough to result in bleeding under the blade's weight alone. It took me a long time to get my Buck 110 up to par, and Spyderco's "SpyderEdge" seems like it would shine in this test.

Though this presents a question: How does one resharpen "SpyderEdge?"

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[krept]

I personally would go with the waved version because I like to have that style of opening as an option:

http://www.888knivesrus.com/product/SC10PGYW

I'm not sure what the "custom" serrated version is that they are offering. The price is significantly below what your looking at.

A round or triangular sharpener is needed for those serrations. I use the triangular ceramic stones from this set:
http://www.888knivesrus.com/product/SC204

There are some other stones that indicate they'll work specifically with Spyderco serrations. All you really need to do is have a stone with an edge or diameter that is thin enough to get inside the serration and you keep the angle on the serrated face (the other side is flat) constant in relation to the stone and sharpen like a regular edge, but on a smaller scale.

not too sure what you mean about the cut test. Dragging the blade across skin using the weight of the knife only? I basically sharpen until the blade can shave arm hair and it's good to go.

cheers