Not much, but did an overview, mainly because of the fact that I've learned what HG was standing for :) Apparently that wasn't for the hogs, but for Hollow Ground.
Sunday, December 22, 2013 00:56:36
Didn't have much time lately to work on the database. Still, kept adding things here and there. As the release of the new Android steel chart nears, I got more time to sift through the steel catalogs, and here we are, almost 5800 names :)
Thursday, December 19, 2013 23:39:52
One more Chinese steel used by several knife makers in western world and I suppose by quite a few makers in China as well. 9Cr14MoV steel has lower Chromium content compared to GB 9Cr18MoV steel, decent amount of Carbon and trace amounts of Mo and V.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 22:21:42
Got alloy data files form the Ahonest Changjiang steel company, and I'm adding the data as I go through it. That's the company behind many steels used by Spyderco, Benchmade, CRKT and few other makers. Takes time to match their records to existing groups :) Added 2Cr14Mo steel composition, added few more aliases and names to various alloy groups, and fixed 9Cr13MoVCo steel composition and added one more alias for it.
Monday, September 30, 2013 22:05:46
One of the knives we gave as a gift to our friend, to introduce him to Japanese kitchen knives. I was happy to have anew knife for testing and reviewing, me and my friends were happy to pick a worthy present and recipient was happy to get the knife he wanted. Everyone was happy in the end, including the dealer I suppose :) Anyhow, good knife, solid build, solid performance. I have no clue why would Tojiro conceal Takefu VG-10 steel used in this knife under obscure DP name, but that's how it was for a while. Details in the review.
Friday, August 30, 2013 19:50:45
Added notes to few dozen alloys. Fixed Carpenter CRB-7 steel composition. Added precise data for Carpenter CTS-B70P steel composition.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 23:07:37
My biggest toy in recent years, if not ever :) And it is my first EV to boot. Very geeky car IMHO and I love pretty much everything about it. Smooth ride, tons of gadgets, huge touch screen, very high acceleration and regenerative breaking which is far more important and convenient that it might seem just by reading the description, I can drive that car using one pedal 98% of the time. No more gas station visits either. What can I say, truly 21st century car and I'm glad I have it.
Monday, August 5, 2013 19:26:14
One more knife donated by maker for testing and reviewing. Because of its rather unusual features the knife went through the very rigorous testing by me and was loaned to several of my friends, who are not knife collectors, but I was interested in their input just as much. The highlight was Crucible CPM S35VN steel which in this knife is hardened at 60-61HRC and exhibited excellent durability and resistance to edge damage in average user's hand. Other than that, it is quite unusual knife, at least for me, used to Japanese kitchen knives, but for details there's a real long review linked above.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 22:49:00
Found a link on the KKF, listed bunch of the French steels used in knives, and to my surprise, some of them were not in the database. THen dug around some more, and found few others as well. In short, about 20 new alloy names were added. To name a few - XC-130 and 135Cr3
Friday, July 12, 2013 11:48:42
One more loaner, had it a while back for some time. I suppose you could call it a yanaagiba for a westerners, who are used to different knives, although that kindda defies the purpose of the yanagiba. Well, looks cool, performs much worse than it looks and in short this is the knife that shouldn't be. Still, apparently someone wanted it and Miyabi made it. The rest in the review.
Sunday, July 7, 2013 23:48:23