Thoughts on the Rat 1 and PM 2?

Thoughts on the Rat 1 and PM 2?

  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Spyderco are overpriced and gay.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why, dawg?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Folders are just pretty useless, other than for dumb shit like opening letters and crap like that. Spyderco and knives like it made with these steels that you're not getting sharp in the field with a stone aren't made for working. They're made for little tasks for people who can't or don't sharpen their own knives to tell people the useless shit they use the knife for and how it holds an edge forever.

        • 1 year ago
          Bepis

          What if you’re a knoife collector and you only want the sharpest knoife to strop and strop on the weekend?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Then do your thing.

            • 1 year ago
              Bepis

              Ok cool, I’m an PrepHole knoife poster so I’m never actually going to use any knoife I pay $100+ for unless it’s a rare occasion that I use the knoife to open the package of a new knoife I just bought.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I don't know if this post is incredibly based or fuming seethe, but I agree with it, partially. My Chink Spydercos are 8cr13 and are no problem to sharpen on a pocket Arkansas.

        • 1 year ago
          which one should i buy right NOW?

          Carrying a full tang knife everywhere is wack.

          get both of them. they are constantly shilled by the knife community and knife sellers for a reason. they stand out and are superior in their own respected fields of being the best cheap knife, and the best budget premiums steel knife.

          Good idea. But which one should i get FIRST?

          That's a Tenacious, not a PM2

          Same shit. All of spyderco knives are PM2's with little differences.

          This.
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          Because they're fucking overpriced, and their gay fans say "spydiehole".

          a bunch of anons told me that holes>thumbstuds>flickers

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The Rat1 is a better design. Spydercos have a meme blade shape that wastes material.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Lol you have used one then. Long sloping curves are far superior than straight lines for cutting things, and for resharpening.
              See: kitchen cutlery, logging saws, Japanese knives, swords, surgery tools

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Long sloping curves are far superior than straight lines for cutting things, and for resharpening.
                That's correct but you don't need a 2-inch wide leaf shaped blade behind that curved edge.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Lol you have used one then. Long sloping curves are far superior than straight lines for cutting things, and for resharpening.
              See: kitchen cutlery, logging saws, Japanese knives, swords, surgery tools

              Which one fellas? The clock is ticking

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The Rat, if you want bang for the buck.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >if you want bang for the buck.
                Explain pls

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                better steel for the price.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This.

      Why, dawg?

      Because they're fucking overpriced, and their gay fans say "spydiehole".

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They used to be good value but it's ridiculous now. Every year you get price increases. A few years ago an endura was $60 now it's $100

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's just Bidenflation, not mark-up.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This was going on well before any of this shit started

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      enjoy your ~~*quality*~~ 440a anon

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        A fucking Opinel carbon is the ultimate orange damn victorinox. Fancy steels are for copers and larpers. I don't know what's worse... people collecting hundreds of dollars of knives, or those fucko pops figurines.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Or a damn Victorinox. Fucking autofuckup

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i bet you own a 300 buck Benchmade

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think they would fit right in with one of the several knife threads up right now

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  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    get both of them. they are constantly shilled by the knife community and knife sellers for a reason. they stand out and are superior in their own respected fields of being the best cheap knife, and the best budget premiums steel knife.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >they are constantly shilled by people who get them for free to review for money for a reason

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i paid 171 for a PM2 in s45vn steel. it took me 5 years to finally shill it out because i hated the design, but i do now realize why its superior.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >what is stockholm syndrome

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            a knife that is better than the rest.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              and it only took you five years to convince yourself that

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                the knife grew on me. the osborne 940 was a grail knife that i wanted, but choose the PM2 because it was standing the test of time better than the osborne 940.
                call it marketing, call it stockholm syndrom, call it what you will.
                im not gonna convince you of shit. but it serves its purpose and instead of paying 180 bucks on what i thought was my grail knife, i bought my real grail knife and didn't even know it.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That's a Tenacious, not a PM2

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I sold my Para 3 and S30V Bucks. I don't like these modern super steels

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    bump

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hello Brother

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      which one do you like better?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sorry for the late response. Its a togh call. I use the RAT more forsure. However I like the look of the spyderco. Here is the persistence which is a bit smaller than the Tenacious i posted alongside the RAT. I know kinda gimmicky, however these knives are all me.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I can sharpen cheap steels no problem, but this d2 I can't, or maybe it's the blade shape on the rat, but I just can't get the fucking thing as sharp as my cheap Chinese Kershaw. The d2 also does not hold an edge for that long like people say it does. The thing is full as fuck from a few days of cutting boxes at work

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Meant to say dull as fuck

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      D2 can have a stubborn wire edge if you're not using diamond stones, even then if your angle isn't consistent a flappy wire edge will develop which will feel like a sharp edge but will roll over cutting anything harder than paper. Stropping and use of a honing steel will knock the flappy wire edge off but since it's D2, you already know it's going to take a bit longer than a chinksteel knoife to de-burr, but you can do it. You're just looking at 5-7mins of honing vs 1-2mins on cheap steel.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    b

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what is the folding blade equivalent of the basic mora kniv? i mean: sturdy, simple, cheap

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Kabar Dozier

    • 1 year ago
      Kevin Van Dam

      The ~$25 Ontario RAT knives and Opinels are the two that get shilled here nearly as much as Moras. Kershaw Leek with that D2 blade used to get shilled a lot too, but that’s more like $60.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hogue, for it rhymes with doge.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Brand naem?

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    OKC RAT 1 pr even the RAT 2. Both are awesome, especially the price. Get a Victorinox Huntsman to go with it, and you're set.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The knife in your picture isn't a PM2.
    But spyderco knives are too expensive for what they are now, I can see somebody getting a PM2 over a 940 5 years ago and liking it, but nowadays Spyderco is charging close to $70 for their lowest level full size knives. Even Benchmade is cheaper now.

    The RAT is still good value for money though. Even if it is D2 steel.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is the RAT in D2 better than AUS8?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Do you live near the coast? D2 isn't stainless, that would be the only reason not to go D2 over AUS-8. Coated AUS-8 is fucking impervious to rust compared to D2.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        D2 is much better performing steel than AUS8. Easier to sharpen, holds an edge way better and longer, more utilitarian. Like this anon

        Do you live near the coast? D2 isn't stainless, that would be the only reason not to go D2 over AUS-8. Coated AUS-8 is fucking impervious to rust compared to D2.

        said, it isn't stainless but simple care and oiling of the steel is easy to do at any time in any environment

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >why would anyone buy a pm2 when there is a pm?

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