i love this it is amazing, but pricy

[Jim Lapenta]

Impressive; I'll have to get something made out of it and see if I like it better than my CPM-M4 blades.

You could try this one. This is the blank they wanted us to cut that someone else is now doing. Kobold Expedition Tools | Little Bastard

 

[scubadada]

How much of an edge do you need? I have a trilobyte for cutting through mono. I use the knife for prying and poking holes in my buddy if a shark gets too close.

I don't dive on the Diver0001 wrecks either. I carry a trilobyte and a folding titanium knife that has held up very well over several years and is still very, very sharp. I've been thinking for quite a while about adding EMT shears for the possibility of metal stuff, probably will now. SB makes me think, and makes me paranoid.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

Neat little spike. Not sure what they're thinking with that protruding tooth in the center of the choil, though maybe it's too narrow to get a finger in when choking up on the blade anyway.

 

[Diver0001]

I'd be leery of wire core stuff though.

That's what prompted me to carry pruning shears when there's a chance of wire core nets

R..

 

[jbb]

I carry EMT shears myself. I ordered about a half dozen. I don't take the best care of them but they are cheap. I think they will last longer if you grind off the hinge and replace it with a stainless locking nut and bolt. I am also impressed with Spiderco's H1 steel knives and would purchase a folding one if i wanted a new knife. I am impressed because I found a strait blade fishing knife on a local dive last year. It looked like it had been in the water a few weeks. I had to clean the plastic handle more than the blade - not rust at all.

 

[ASert]

Pricey is an understatement. Then again, I don't own a Rolex divewatch either.

well you must not be a diver because you have to have a Rolex dive watch to be one.

JK

 

[The Chairman]

The problem with EMT shears is that the pivot rusts out, but you don't see it until you try to use it.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

They do make shears with a Ti pivot, which is a place where that metal actually belongs.

 

[The Chairman]

Most the shears I've seen are simply crappy. I don't mind diving with someone who has shears, but I generally am not going to look to them for help in case of an entanglement.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

Won't disagree with you there; if you can cut it without shears, then it's probably going to be faster and easier to use a trilobite. I carry a pair or two of tacti-kewl shears for the same reason some people carry a handgun: you're not too likely to need shears, but if you do you're going to really need them. Not much else will handle cable or wire leader.

Plus, at $4 a pop or so for decent trauma shears like Tytek Piranhas, I could care less if they start to fall apart fast...they're disposable. Though I've been sticking the same two pairs of Tyteks in salt water for a few months now and whatever coating they put on the SS blade and pivot has been doing its job.