Dough up new sources, entering as I get spare time. steadily approaching 5000 alloy mark :) New versions of the iphone and Android apps are also in works.
Thursday, September 20, 2012 23:23:12
Two new GOST alloy compositions added: 11x4v2mf3s2 steel wich happens to be nearly identical with Sharon Steel 1095 Cro-Van, and now discontinued R9K10 high speed tool steel. Moved CSN 19830 steel to the correct group, it's similar to AISI M2 tool steel, but missing Cobalt places it in the same group with W-Nr - 1.3343 steel.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 23:53:43
Finally, after very long time, the knife is complete. Blade made by Shinichi Watanabe, according to my specs, using Aogami 2 steel, and the handle was done by Dave Martel, although I didn't provide any specs for that. So Dave was left with quite a challenge, to create a matching handle for rahter unique blade. I think overall result is just terrific. Pix will be coming soon. The wood used in the handle is Hawaian Signature, and frankly I have never heard of it, but has very intricate looks, ferrule is African Blackwood, which does make a good choice for the ferrule. In short, I've missed PO today, so I have to pick it up tomorrow morning. Can't wait :)
Saturday, September 8, 2012 00:01:45
Revised statistics calculations for the steel of the day and top steels for last 7 days sections, specifically, excluded comparison results from top steels sections, since lots of comparisons are hardcoded links either on my site or on many other places on the net, thus alloy being in the comparison doesn't necessarily represent interest in particular one, it can be just part of the pre-made comparison. Working on search history stats, which is quite interesting to me at least, hopefully for steelheads out there too.
Monday, August 27, 2012 23:14:09
USPS delivered it today, and frankly I wasn't even expecting it this week. Who knew :) Well, nice surprise and the knife is even better than I've imagined. Already sharpened on diamond strops, although serious sharpening on whetstones is definitely in order.
Thursday, August 23, 2012 23:06:24
Rather rare specimen, and as with some other knives, I've missed the original release, then I've posted on BF, in wanted to buy section, and few weeks later I got an offer. Cool :) Now, wait till it gets here from Canada, hope it won't get stuck in customs, or worse, lost in transit...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 23:25:03
And 2 mil. milestone hit this morning. About 11 month since 1 mil. was reached, first mil took two years. Anyway, I'm glad it's working for so many out there and I keep working on improvements.
Monday, August 6, 2012 16:02:11
Crucible CPM S60V steel had aliases listed as equivalent alloys, fixed that. Fixed group status for few other alloys. Nothign much, data quality works in short.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 22:13:25
While scouring the search logs, found interesting pattern, someone or some people were submitting very large number of alloy names to the graph query engine. Dunno if it was to cause overflow bug, or whatever, added a limit for 12 names, which is the max a chart can handle properly.
Sunday, July 29, 2012 22:34:19
Nice little knife, which I've had since February 2012. Used it quite a bit and I ma quite happy with the results, very high performance cutter. Major highlight being Bohler-Uddeholm Vanadis 10 steel at 65HRC. Very high alloy steel, but what matter is that Vanadis 10 performs at very high levels too. Very good abrasive resistance, and toughness is quite good for 65HRC steel, no chipping in my use and rests. For detailed review click the link in the title.
Thursday, July 26, 2012 20:47:08