Juice Club

[enki_ck]

In real life, mine is about one shade lighter than true "black" (if that makes sense)

Makes sense to me. Lesson from a paint retailer-NEVER judge colors from your computer monitor or a picture. What you see isn't going to be what you get. That being said, a deeper gray than the storm gray would be sweet. Are these only C2s?

Regretfully, yes. I asked on their FB page, and they said there weren't any, but Dunc directed me to the library I linked below and there is only the C2/Style combo. C2 is my least favorite Juice. :/

[badwolf]

Yeah, naked looks good too.

Its like a Skeletool and a Juice had a baby. 

Skelejuice yes, does look good like this

[jwh]

Old thread, new Juice owner. I added a Juice C2 to the lineup recently. While my wife and I both have survival kits in our packs and vehicles I decided to make an urban EDC recently. It will include the Juice, Buck Hartsook, Pocket Widget, Space Pen, mini first aid kit, paracord, rite in rain pad, emergency whistle, single edge razor, USB thumb drive, zip ties, Streamlight Stylus Pro Pen light, lighter and duct tape. The Juice C2 is the heart of the kit.


jwh

[Lynn LeFey]

New owner of S2, here.

I've given the scissors, can opener, and drivers a bit of a workout, and am overall pretty happy. Size is really nice. Weight is nice, about an ounce less than my PST. It has nice 'snappy' action, and while they don't lock, all the drivers have really good retention, and are offset so they don't work to force a collapse.

I'm not sure if it's a factory edge, but this blade is sharp. Date stamps of 03 make me think previous owners have touched it up nicely.

I think I might love it.

[Aleister]

[sergemaster]

Amici,
The Juice is a small package that's hard to beat, and after a few swipes from a ceramic rod, holds a razor like edge.

Cheers,
Serge

[EddieEnzyme]

Hey, I hadn't spotted this one!

I'm in! A Juice S2 lives in my jacket pocket...

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

I've got an S2 and it's a great little tool.  Mine currently lives in my survival kit.

I do have a couple of issues with it though...  I don't care for the blade, either its shape or the fact it's hollow ground.  The blade in mine will take a very keen edge, but it dulls fairly quickly as well.

I also would gladly give up a couple of the flat head drivers for a small phillips driver.  The lack of a small (1 or 0) phillips driver is why I never found it desirable for EDC.

[J-sews]

The S2 definitely has a lot going for it. I like how slim it is as compared to the C2 with its confounded pocket-grabbing corkscrew

[Aleister]

The blade in mine will take a very keen edge, but it dulls fairly quickly as well.

I am experimenting with this for a couple of weeks now and it seems that Juice's blade gets dull even without use while days pass. But, every time I sharpen it (every couple of days), it keeps its edge for a little longer. I don't know if this makes any sense or if it is possible, but it seems like juice's blade steel has some kind of "memory" and the more times you sharpen it, the more it stays sharp.

[theonew]

Aleister, I've encountered that on both expensive and inexpensive knives and attribute it to overheating during the production sharpening process, which ruins the temper of the steel. On a Fallkniven I have it took five full on sharpenings before I got into the good steel.

[50ft-trad]

Sometimes I think the grinding has been done too aggressively, putting stresses in the fine edge and making it curl. An easy way to check is just giving it a quick strop before use. If it cuts the edge is curling, if not then it's theonew's theory and a matter of getting to the good steel beneath. YMMV

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

The blade in mine will take a very keen edge, but it dulls fairly quickly as well.

I am experimenting with this for a couple of weeks now and it seems that Juice's blade gets dull even without use while days pass. But, every time I sharpen it (every couple of days), it keeps its edge for a little longer. I don't know if this makes any sense or if it is possible, but it seems like juice's blade steel has some kind of "memory" and the more times you sharpen it, the more it stays sharp.

I think this is a general characteristic of cheaply manufactured hollow ground blades.  As you sharpen the edge and wear it down, it moves the edge progressively into a thicker cross section which should reduce the tendency to roll the edge, unless it's a very shallow grind angle. 

As nice a design as the Juices are, they're made pretty cheaply.  I mean, they use a nut/bolt construction on the Style PS and CS, and the blade on the CS is also flat ground, so why can't they do it on the Juice line as well?  I'd gladly give up a double sided hollow ground blade for a chisel edge flat grind blade.  Is that too much to ask in a $50 tool?   

[J-sews]

I think the Juice line was created as a direct competitor against swiss army knives, which also have soft(ish) steel blades and riveted construction.

[Syph007]

I still like my S2 but always hated the blade.  Im just about done grinding on a 91mm SAK blade and fitting in on the S2, then it will make its way back to the EDC rotation.  The blades are even exactly the same thickness, I just had to drill a new hole and make a spring retention nick.