Spyderco Para Military 2 S35VN Knife (Black Blade)
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Spyderco’s Para Military 2 is a mainstay in the EDC community and even more advanced than its popular predecessor. Featuring a narrower handle for a tighter grip, a thinner profile to simplify cutting at difficult angles, a compression lock, and a four-way ambidextrous clip, the Para Military 2 improves on an already ergonomic design Read More
The S35VN PMs cost more than they should - the price is high because they're harder to find than regular S30V.
S35VN is a little easier to sharpen than S30V but I think S30V holds a better edge a little longer. I think the fact that you see a lot of newer knife companies working with S35VN is more of an indication that it's easier to grind than it is an indication that it's really a better steel for the consumer. S35VN has niobium in it which is much easier to source in China than here so in many ways making S35VN is probably cheaper for the Chinese than old fashioned S30V. Really I don't think the difference amounts to much in the long run either way to be honest but I think S30V is indeed better if you know how to sharpen a knife well. And when you look and see that S35VN PM2s are costing at least 30 bucks more than the originals, I frankly think that's a no brainer -- leave the S35VN and its $30 premium to the collectors, just pick up a regular S30V PM2. The chances are decent you'll end up liking it a teensy bit more if you work with it long enough to get a true, honest opinion on it -- but even if you don't, I doubt you'll end up finding the difference was worth the extra dough.
I think that frankly Spyderco understands this and they're just giving the collectors something they'll collect. Look what color they made the handle, ffs.
speaking of segues!
Funny thing about knife people. If you ask 100 of us what our favorite knife or knife steel or knife style is, you'll hear well over fifty different answers and a whole lot of mutually exclusive opinions. And we'll all be able to explain what and why and who is wrong and who is right, and if you line us all up at the table and tell us to lay our knives on the table, there's gonna be dozens of styles, all manner of steels and grinds and lock and blade shape and handle material and clip. They'll be as different as the opinions were and we'll probably be all engaging in some level of debate as to who knows dick from dunk about knives.
And yet, somehow each one of those knives sitting on the table, I guarantee you, is gonna be an awesome knife.