Thoughts on the Rat 1 and PM 2?

Thoughts on the Rat 1 and PM 2?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Spyderco are overpriced and gay.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why, dawg?

      • 2 years 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.

        • 2 years ago
          Bepis

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

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Then do your thing.

            • 2 years 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.

        • 2 years 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.

        • 2 years 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 fricking overpriced, and their gay fans say "spydiehole".

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

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

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

            • 2 years 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

              • 2 years 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.

            • 2 years 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

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The Rat, if you want bang for the buck.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >if you want bang for the buck.
                Explain pls

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                better steel for the price.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This.

      Why, dawg?

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

    • 2 years 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

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's just Bidenflation, not mark-up.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          This was going on well before any of this shit started

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

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

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        A fricking 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 fricko pops figurines.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Or a damn Victorinox. Fricking autofrickup

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i bet you own a 300 buck Benchmade

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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

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  3. 2 years 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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

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

      • 2 years 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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >what is stockholm syndrome

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            a knife that is better than the rest.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              and it only took you five years to convince yourself that

              • 2 years 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. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That's a Tenacious, not a PM2

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bump

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hello Brother

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      which one do you like better?

      • 2 years 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. 2 years 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 fricking 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 frick from a few days of cutting boxes at work

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Meant to say dull as frick

    • 2 years 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. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    b

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Kabar Dozier

    • 2 years 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. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hogue, for it rhymes with doge.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Brand naem?

  12. 2 years 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. 2 years 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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is the RAT in D2 better than AUS8?

      • 2 years 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 fricking impervious to rust compared to D2.

      • 2 years 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 fricking 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. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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

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