My first Vanadis 4E steel knife, 66HRC at that. Should make an excellent light use knife. We'll see how it will hold up when it gets here. Hopefully soon enough.
Saturday, May 29, 2010 15:30:22
The report is online. Came out pretty big though. I wasn't really planning on the article of that size but full description of five individual tests, and then discussing various aspects of hardness, and other hypothesis proofs or otherwise took quite a bit of space. I wanted to cover few subjects, since I felt they are all related and the tests were illustrating that and why super generic statements like hard edges are brittle or soft edges are very easy to restore can be very wrong so many times.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 21:40:36
My ps3 went kaput
Sucks big time. My gen I, 60GB ps3 kicked the bucket this weekend. Coincidentally, I was rewatching n-th time Lost on blu-ray, S3 to be exact. At some poitn the screen went black and never came back. It still works as a media center, but no blu-rays or even dvds. Considering that blu-rays are my main watchable material, I'm really bummed. Sony offered to trade that broken thing in for a newer PS3, slim, etc, but with no PS2 hardware emulator, no memory cards, and only 2 USB ports, although I don't really care about any of that. Funny, my get I xbox 360 did last twice as long as that PS3, although in the end it did go belly up too, dvd drive died on that one as well.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 09:39:31
For three consecutive weekends I was conducting testing on hard versus soft edges theme. Gallery is up already, and the detailed report is almost finished. If all goes well, I'll publish the report tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 22:32:30
Got the 240mm Gyuto, as before it is 7000mc series, i.e. MC66 steel, which currently is Hitachi ZDP-189 steel.
Monday, May 24, 2010 21:38:19
Lost is finished and I am very disappointed
What the hell did just happen? A very lame ending for the rushed season. No answers to anything important, tons more questions. Basically, what we got was a mix of south park's dead celebrities episode style limbo with sixth sense style they dunno they're dead. So lame for the greatest TV show ever.
Monday, May 24, 2010 10:04:32
Final episode of lost
All good things come to an end, and so is the Lost. I really liked, it, first 3 seasons especially, can't say I was very happy with the excessive amount of unsolved and abandoned mysteries, especially in S6, but hopefully the finale will explain most important ones. And yeah, I do think that light thing was lame.
Sunday, May 23, 2010 21:55:44
2 weeks ago I've conducted part 1 of the test, cutting aluminum bottle caps with 64HRC Benchmade 710 M2 folder, which represented a super hard edge and a Calphalon paring knife, which is guesstimated 54-56HRC. Second test was pretty much a disaster for Calphalon. Detailed report in progress, but overall, it was a prety good illustration of the fact that the brittleness of the hard edges is generally exaggerated and the ease of restoring of the soft edges is also exaggerated. I couldn't restore the edge by steeling and stropping on the Calphalon today.
Sunday, May 23, 2010 00:07:33
Added over half a dozen new compositions, more than 50 new alloy names and corrected several typos in DIN and EN high speed steel standard names. New alloy compositions are from Ossenberg, one of the manufacturers nice enough to provide normal product list with compositions and reference standard names.
Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:58:52
Sorted out the mess with Hitachi HAP40 and HAP72 steels. Unfortunately, the original source listed few alternate names incorrectly, fixed them all. Although, the equivalents from other makers are still problematic, everyone lists them as they please.
Friday, May 21, 2010 22:51:39