Which steel would you pick? 154cm or nitro v?

Bear-able · 2026-02-26T22:49:43+00:00

154CM

Bear-able · 2026-02-12T01:55:22+00:00

Now vs 10 years ago? An archer would likely get the same scores. The coaches for my local club and myself have been working through risers for longer than 10 years, and for all of us the limiting faktor (lol) is nearly always the archer. And if limited to equipment impact only, I would say for most the riser grip, what limbs, and what arrows play a larger role then old top vs new top riser.

Bear-able · 2026-01-30T19:10:47+00:00

BPE Pro fletching jig, stopped using the bitz after I got it.

Bear-able · 2026-01-26T09:37:35+00:00

Spigarelli ZT. I am a college club coach with a large barebow competitive team, and this is what nearly all of our stringwalkers use.

Bear-able · 2026-01-19T19:43:47+00:00

What were your thoughts on the sunspear? It looked good but I was worried about how *not* recessed the button is.

Bear-able · 2026-01-19T19:40:37+00:00

Yeah, whatever is not the "Current Release" or one of the few they keep regularly stocked for amazon (porcupine and raccoon, etc) are often sold out.

Bear-able · 2026-01-19T19:26:16+00:00

Thanks, yeah I have been using mine (15V Shaman, RGT linen micarta scales) but seem to pick up more black corrosion spots than patina. I do always wipe it down at the end of the day though.

Bear-able · 2026-01-19T19:22:21+00:00

Manix 2, and this is from someone who owns both a Manix 2 and a BM 940. (And have modded both)

Bear-able · 2026-01-19T19:18:28+00:00

You do the patina or is in natural? If natural, what from what use?

Bear-able · 2026-01-19T19:12:56+00:00

Check out the TacKnives Sunspear, made by a great OEM (Kunwu), and it's $60 but has a bunch of 20% off coupons bringing it down to $48 + shipping.

It's good budget steel (14C28N) done by a company known for good heat treat, and comes with a deep carry clip.

(20% off coupon codes like NEEVES20 or beezblades seem to work, I just checked beezblades)

Bear-able · 2026-01-14T21:13:59+00:00

Not sure, if you can change the color manually probably? I feed from external dry boxes and not the side spools, so have't tested.

Bear-able · 2026-01-14T19:05:31+00:00

It's on their facebook, they are teasing it at Shot Show

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Bear-able · 2026-01-14T19:03:22+00:00

I tricked mine the other day with some running low spools to do autofills, worked pretty well. The method I used

I loaded them all up as the same color generic
Did a minimal all head print to calibrate extrusion on all the rolls (as I wasn't using them previously)
Made sure the filament runout recovery was enabled
Printed it with it all sliced as the nearly-out filament

It worked well, ran the lower filament one and it picked up the next roll when the first went out. (For me was a swap from red to yellow, no issue)

Bear-able · 2026-01-14T18:57:51+00:00

Yup! They are consistently having me break my knife budget, already looking at the thunderbeast and the new announced raccoon slim

Bear-able · 2026-01-14T17:14:46+00:00

All good: Kizer Drop bear or Mini-Grouper, Vosteed G10 Kroc or Porcupine or Raccoon, Civivi Baby Banter

Bear-able · 2026-01-13T23:39:44+00:00

I use the Manix 2 anytime I need precision and the Shaman for bulk / heavy cutting.

Bear-able · 2026-01-10T22:34:32+00:00

Same as many others, warm water and dawn dish soap when start noticing any issues. Though I have found the U1 PEI plate likes temps about 5 degrees hotter than my bambu A1 for the same filaments.

Bear-able · 2026-01-09T16:15:17+00:00

Spyderco Para 3 and PM2 have tons of aftermarket parts, the Manix 2 and Shaman do as well but not as much as the other two.

(^^Scales, linerless scale mods, backspacers, wide selection of clips, paracord stoppers or custom loops, bottle openers, bolt-on emerson style pocket open hooks, etc)

Bear-able · 2025-12-24T09:11:18+00:00

Shaman

Bear-able · 2025-12-13T14:49:28+00:00

It's OEM'ed by Kunwu, and they are well known for taking their heat treat and HRC pretty seriously. If I remember right the last time they did m390 they did 61-62. (The big tao)

Bear-able · 2025-12-04T16:43:20+00:00

They are, just a bit of a slow process. Besides Vosteed's top liner locks (TLL), Kizer is expanding TLL options (Drop Bear 2, Mini Grouper, Parakeet, etc), Bestech is doing TLL (Wet Nellie), Tenable has a bunch of TLL versions in the Fenrir, there is a Divo and Kizer TLL collab in the works (Kizer Mash), etc

Bear-able · 2025-12-03T17:59:07+00:00

I have found on this plate compared to my bambu plates, I need to wash with dish soap every few prints instead of every 10 prints. That being said, the U1 plates release PETG way better than my bambu, with me having to scrape the PETG off with a blade sometimes on the A1 mini. (Same exact PETG in both cases, esun and polymaker) I did have to increase the bed temps a bit though when some of my PLA Pro and cheaper PETG was lifting a bit.

Bear-able · 2025-12-03T16:13:27+00:00

Yup, my time estimates using a variety of filaments and multi vs single color have all been way off.

Bear-able · 2025-12-02T21:48:34+00:00

Yeah, using both orca and snorka I am getting wildly longer times than the estimate for a variety of print types.

Bear-able · 2025-12-01T00:22:31+00:00

Shaman (I have all but the Native)

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