Added several names to Italian UNI steel standard listings, Polish PN and few more to Spanish UNE steel standard listings. Also, updated International Steel Standard Names And Information section as well.
Monday, June 11, 2012 23:28:51
It's been a while, but I've finally got all the pieces. Handle slabs by John Grimsomo, anodized aluminum. I've made a request for smooth handles and they're smoother than expected, but looks definitely looks different. Well, I can always order a new pair of the handle slabs, they come in numerous patterns and colors from Mr. Grimsomo. He also did reanodizing work for my trusty Benchmade 710 HSSR. Brought a new, fresh looks. Other than that, CPM S90V steel Manix 2, at 61HRC, doesn't really get much better than that, at least as far as that steel is concerned.
Sunday, June 10, 2012 17:08:02
For some reason, main record was saying cts-20p, not cp, fixed it. Added few more AFNOR and W-Nr names to the knife steel composition chart.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 19:43:56
Fixed very slow query for the steel of the day. Optimized could other areas related to database querying. Page should load in less than a second now, vs. 3-4 seconds before. Fixed bug in top for last 7 days, which was looking only at the last 6 days instead of 7. Still pondering on more stats.
Saturday, June 2, 2012 12:03:20
Doug up another doc while researching steels. Luckily contains a lot of French AFNOR steel standard names, which are relatively hard to find, for example I didn't have AFNOR standard names for popular knifemaking alloys like AISI 1070, W1, O7 and few more exitics things like D7 and M36 steel. Overall, about 20 new standard names, plus a few proprietary alloys as well. Total alloy names now well over 4600.
Thursday, May 31, 2012 23:02:04
Yoshikanem Tamamoku yanagiba was a present for my friend, but so far I've had two opportunities to use and sharpen it. Mainly positive impressions, very good looking knife, with relatively high performance compared to many other yanagibas I have used in the past and use it now. Not the top performer, but not the most expensive one either, so one could say somewhat balanced price/performance. Details in the review.
Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:25:31
Added bunch of proprietary tool steel names from about a dozen makers. Including All types of tool steels, O series, L, M, and T series alloys. By now database has over 4500 names :)
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 13:23:47
One more knife from Henckels, fairly good representative of western carvers, had it for some time, loaner to be precise. Sharpened, used, but as a carver, it's not very versatile, although if you really try it could be, but I think not really worth it. I don't like the design too much, but that's just me. Details in the review.
Sunday, May 6, 2012 23:50:13
About a dozen new alloys, including GOST and CSN standards and Poldi Steels.
Friday, May 4, 2012 00:23:39
Added new alloys names to Thyssen-Krupp steel listings, Hitachi steel listings and Nachi Fujikoshi steel listings. MOstly high speed tool steels, although few of the stainless alloy names were added as well. Two proprietary ones, Nachi Fujikoshi HS52R steel and Nachi Fujikoshi HMT12 Steel.
Monday, April 30, 2012 22:14:42