Added steel steel makers website links to the knife steel resources page. I go through those periodically, hunting for the new alloys, or newly published compositions of old secret alloys ;) Anyway, if you happen to find anything in there that I missed, please let me know.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:32:54
And again :)
Happy 2011 Everyone!!!
Friday, December 31, 2010 16:15:49
Fellow BF forumite, Knarfeng provided data, thanks a bunch for one more piece of info. Detalied info - 1095 Cro-Van steel composition.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 19:51:12
Nachi Fujikoshi produced, Fax 18 high speed tool steel, JIS equivalent SKH59, AISI equivalent M42 high speed tool steel.
Saturday, December 18, 2010 17:51:37
Added more precise data, Rottman provided :) Mainly contaminants like Sulfur and Phosphorus, trace elements of several other metals. I doubt most of them are there on purpose, simply impurities. Very clean alloy though.
Friday, December 10, 2010 17:15:05
Finally! After about 2 years of research and waiting for test results for almost 7 months we have the formula :) Special thanks to Rottman of KF. Interesting steel and I am glad we finally have gokinko steel composition.
Saturday, December 4, 2010 09:32:00
Case CV steel, as the name suggests is the Case proprietary alloy, used in their knives. Pretty much the same approach used in 1095 Cro Van steel, i.e. plain carbon steel with the addition of trace amounts of Chromium and Vanadium, 0.65% Cr and 0.22% V to be precise.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 21:02:20
Dynaminc popup notes in the steel chart and autosuggest results in the graph builder were both centered after I changed site layout. Dunno hot it was for you, but it was really difficult to use them that way. Back to left aligned text. Wasn't a planed change, just a bug.
Monday, November 22, 2010 10:27:33
Accidentally found Z-Wear PM tool steel in one of theposts on BF. Then called the distributor. Zapp made steel, according to sales rep. it's a replacement or an equivalent of the Crucible CPM 3V steel.
Friday, November 19, 2010 21:52:59
Small update in the review. Finally, I got first hand information about he A-Type designation, which apparently is used to indicate Gokinko steel, not asymmetrical edges. All that is good, except I still don't have the composition of the Gokinko steel, except that 7% Chromium in it.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 20:44:15