What do you know... Apple reviewed the app in 3 days. Well, app is out, with several important fixes including synchronization, missing compositions, etc.
Thursday, January 17, 2013 23:44:08
Submitted the app today. I suppose their holiness apple app review council will approve it in a week or two.
Sunday, January 13, 2013 21:04:45
Doug up yet another interesting source. Has bunch of names from British makers for various popular tool steels, including AISI O1, AISI D2, AISI D3, and AISI D6, well that's so far. Plus fw more standard and proprietary names for other alloys, overall about 80 new alloys in last seven days :)
Wednesday, January 9, 2013 23:09:21
I got it a while back, as a present for my friend. Had it for a few weeks to play with and do some testing. Pretty good knife, I was happy with all aspects of its performance, nice knife, but sharpening is a biatch. Other than that, no complaints. Good build quality, solid performance and the price is pretty reasonable too.
Sunday, January 6, 2013 22:06:20
Found couple new sources and another steel company, French one at this time - Secosar. Went through the few German makers listings, found alloys I've missed before, and new additions. Overall, I've added over 100 new alloys to the database during last 2 weeks. Total number of the records in the database is now over 5200.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:28:29
Added warning dialog to the graph when there is not enough space to display all alloys in the comparison. Apparently nobody ever looked into the settings menu which allows to increase the graph size ;) Now, there'a clear message. Also, fixed gradient bars, they are correctly filled with corresponding gradient texture, before they were shifted occasionally.
Thursday, December 6, 2012 19:48:23
Dug through Euro makers sites and found out that a few alloys were still missing from the knife steel composition chart. Most interesting would be Japanese SRK-8 tool steel, which is a close relative of the Hitachi Shirogami 2 steel, although described as having the performance of the Aogami 2, which I really doubt. Still, a good steel. Another one was Bohler-Uddeholm Marss-500 steel. That one is not a new one either, its clone from Sandvik - 12C27M steel was in the chart for a while. Gave me some trouble, because there's numerous sources listing it as having 18% Chromium, which isn't correct, it has 14.50%. It took time to discover Swedish source stating that. Obviously it's no longer listed on any Bohler-Uddeholm site.
Monday, December 3, 2012 23:06:42
Variation on the NiTiNOL 60 theme. SM-100 alloy manufactured by Summit Materials. As per official description, it's a tweaked NiTiNol, easier to manufacture and major pros include high wear resistance and it's corrosion proof. Few custom makers are using it, there are some talks about limited edition production knives using SM-100, nothing solid so far. Also, dug up one more GIN-1 steel alias, G2, Spyderco used GIN-1 under this name, added to steel chart.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 18:20:38
Found sortta ok catalog of the German company WSM Werkzeugstahl, even though very few tools steels in the catalog listed under tool steels section, still better than nothing. Almost there with 5100 mark.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 17:20:01
Both components were updated today. Well, worked on them for about 2 weeks or so, went online today. Steel chart is 4.1 and steel graph is 3.8. As usual, you will need to do hard reload, or clear browser cache. Hilights include completely modal dialogs, improved settings dialog for the chart and few other speed and performance improvements. Highly recommended for the users to use setings dialog in the chart and select default standard somethign other than "All", will improve initial loading speed very considerably. You don't need to look at 5000+ alloys at once do you?
Sunday, November 4, 2012 22:12:56