Benchmade Leuku 202 CPM-3V
Ok go this one and it's a great little hiking knife, what more to say other than it's made with CPM's CPM-3V, vanadium enhanced stainless steel. Very comfortable because instead of a standard Leuku wooden grip we have a similar shaped grip made of Santoprene, this polymer like Forprene and Kraton, so very comfortable and good with wet slimy hands!
being a powder metallurgical steel knife blade is supposed to yield superior performance to similar non-PM steels, time will tell. My only grip is (at the moment still being tested) that benchmade state the HRC is in the range of 60-62. This is according to Crucible not the HRC which will achieve optimal wear resistance and hardness, ie optimal for CPM-3V. So I'm not sure why benchmade chose the higher end of the HRC range for CPM-3V as at the higher HRC values there is a marked decrease according to CPM in wear resistance. Let's see in 6 months time how this blade fares with my usage, because if that's true then it defeats the purpose of using 3V, which is supposed to be optimal around 58-60 according to Crucible's data. Now maybe Benchmade know something different? or this is a typo on their web page??? benchmade are you reading this?
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