Ahonest Changjiang VG-10 Cobalt is Chinese version of the famous Takefu VG-10 Steel. Targeted to be more cost effective than VG-10 at the same time it uses ESR technology, while VG-10 is conventional ingot steel. That should result in a cleaner alloy, which is certainly beneficial. Specs are almost identical.
Thursday, August 6, 2015 23:31:27
Finally got around to the review. First I had to wait for the knife for more than a year, I mean from the announcement to order and delivery. Too much for a production knife if you ask me, even for a limited edition knife. Anyway, I got it, have been EDC-ing for 6 months now and I'm quite happy with its performance and overall design. Stabilized lock bar is a very nice addition, even if I do not like framelocks. Details in the review, read on.
Monday, August 3, 2015 23:07:36
Fixed minor issues with keyboard events. Improved keyboard handling, to be more specific both Tab and right arrow key copy selected autosuggest entry into the input box, and automatically add coma after the new entry, plus if Tab key was used for this operation, input focus stays in the edit box, allowing to perform the input w/o mouse use.
Sunday, June 28, 2015 00:04:03
Working on the new version of the steel chart, and indirectly or directly that involves revision of the data. Merged bunch of standalone alloys into proper groups, dealers or makers often do not provide equivalents, so I have to find it the hard way. At least my chart has search by composition :) Merged Masahiro MBS-26 with Sandvik 19C27 steel group. Half a dozen Dorrenber steels are now in their respective groups as well including: PMD9, PMD10, PMD23, PMD60, PMD440 and few more.
Friday, June 26, 2015 00:15:47
Got stuck in review phase for over a week, but it's out finally :)< /br> New Feature - Bookmarks migration on db upgrade Adjusted composition lookup algorithm Unified data format for chemical element data in graph view BugFix - Fixed an issue when element range starting with 0 was displayed incorrectly BugFix - Popups correctly show HTML entities
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 21:06:42
One more Shapron GLass Stone I received from Takeshi (aframestokyo.com). Quite handy stone for a quick touch up of the medium coarse edges. NO need fro long soaks which is the main advantage of Shaptons, and 2000 grit is just fine for most of the utility edges finished anywhere between 700-2000 grit. All good, except it's thin and for a stone frequently used for touchups and minor sharpenings that's hardly an advantage :)
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 21:47:37
Fixes issue with the graph not displaying elements in range beginning with 0 correctly. Improves composition lookup algorithm. Adds Bookmark automatic import on database upgrade event.
Saturday, March 7, 2015 20:21:31
Got it a while back from Takeshi of aframes Tokyo. Pretty good one for what it is. Fast, aggressive. Can work as a primary rebeveling and edge repair stone for majority of knives in pretty much any alloy. There will be a few things that will make you switch to more coarse and aggressive stones, like CPM S125V steel at 64-65HRC or worse, Crucible Rex 121 steel at 68-70HRC. However, those are rare and knives in them are few and between. Most of the time 500 grit Shapton can be a primary stone, and for those exceptions it will be a second stone.
Thursday, March 5, 2015 18:39:00
After a long break, caused by development efforts of the knife steel chart mobile apps I finally got back to the web version. Major change or improvement was in the composition lookup algorithm. It's both, more performance and more precise now. Spent some time working on caching algorithms for both steel chart and composition analyzer. Individual alloy data files are generated and cached now. Also went through all the javascript for both modules, gives some improvement, but unfortunately, main table in the steel chart is still too slow without any constraints limiting the number for records. As before, strongly recommended to set up proper initial settings to speed up initial loading, i.e. default standard and probably hide ref names as well. Next release will be major changes, moving a lot of functionality to client side, should help my poor server too.
Friday, February 27, 2015 18:25:32
No pictures or review yet, arrived this afternoon. I'll get on it this weekend. Ordered a while back, about 9 months ago if I am not mistaken, and it was announced way before that. Hinderer design, Bohler-Uddeholm M390 Stainless PM Steel, Carbon FIber handle, well at least one slab is carbon fiber, and the other is titanium since it is a framelock. Quality knife, no doubts.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 23:38:15