Got it as a present for a friend a while back, and managed to do test cutting and minor sharpening/edge restoration after test session. Superb knife for what it was designed, and as it turns out, also works superb as a heavy gyuto. I am not all that much into heavy knives, but on occasion, tough gyutos are a good thing to have around, or if you like hefty knives, then this one might be right up your valley. If you are ok with the single grind edges that is.
Sunday, October 9, 2011 16:48:56
I was working on steel chart improvements, and then I got two messages in a day about Russian GOST 110X18 steel. Dunno what's so special about it, but few people already commented on the absence of it from the steel chart. I did the very dilligent research, and found out that it is used in wide variety of Russian knives and arguably it is an equivalent of AISI 440C steel, with carbon content closer to 440C top margin, that means Carbon is somehwere in the vicinity of 1.10%-1.20%. Other than that no info. WHat is rather dubious in all that, not a single dealer, steel maker or even GOST standard source I have ever seen has its composition. So much for a popular steel. I put it in AISI 440C group, apparently it belongs in there, although there is already GOST 95X18 steel, but that's not the same. There is also another one, with a very similar name GOST 110X18M steel, composition of which I have, but that's not the one either, 110X18M is higher end steel, claimed to be Latrobe BG-42 steel equivalent, but lacks Vanadium present in BG-42.
Saturday, October 8, 2011 21:17:44
Fixed couple minor bugs, inactive records were displayed in the suggestions search, and changed reporting method on un-deletable database error.
Friday, October 7, 2011 22:20:45
Was browsing through GOST standard specs again, found couple AISI O1 tool steel analogs along the way. To make things more interesting, apparently the GOST names were changed, not sure when. Well, added them all,old and new names, with alternate spellings.
Monday, October 3, 2011 23:21:47
Good times :) Started one custom blade with Watnabe, and this time this is not a kitchen knife, but Hitachi Aogami 2 steel nesmuk. Now, that's gonna be a nesmuk. Two more customs with Phil Wilson, Bohler-Uddeholm M390 steel and Bohler-Uddeholm K294 steel small fixed blades and one mroe still in design process, this time in Bohler-Uddeholm K390 steel. All exotic stuff, nothing less than 64HRC in the end. All super thin edged, high efficiency cutters. Updates as they come in...
Friday, September 30, 2011 19:30:22
Sent 5 Japanese kitchen knives for rehandling to Dave. All 5 handles were made by Stefan, actually han made 7, two were already rehandled this summer, I was a bit lazy to put things together. Also sent Benchmade 710 HSSR McHenry and Williams folder Aluminum slabs for anodizing. The original is 12 years old, and really worn out.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 21:32:55
Finally got the shipment from knifecenter. Ordered a while back. Went in there to get Condor machete, and ended up with two small Leatherman multitools, Squirt and Style, small Condor axe, Fenix flashlight, and few other small things. And modded Lumintop Worm flashlight on Sunday. Removed the bottom stand with cutout using a dremel and then smoothed the bottom on the belt grinder. Took about 20 minutes total. Can't say it is perfectly flat, but stands on the bottom just fine. Polished with 0.30 mic Aluminum Oxide abrasive, got nice mirror polish. Pix will follow soon. Preping few more knives to send for modding, exciting times ;)
Monday, September 26, 2011 23:50:54
What the subj says. 2.2 went online today. Numerous fixes and latest db dump.
1) Fixed integrated search and suggestions.
2) Fixed back navigation problems in alloy detail views.
3) Fixed crashes in error reporting.
4) Latest database dump as of 2011-09-25
Sunday, September 25, 2011 14:32:34
The bug prevented alloys containing + in the name form being displayed in single alloy mode. Fix is in place. E.g. AISI M3:2+Co steel composition.
Saturday, September 24, 2011 13:22:18
For the standard name alloys, identical names from other standards were omitted, fairly common in EU, where DIN, UNI, UNE and often BS standard names are the same for quite a few alloys. Fixed. Complete list of the alloy sis displayed.
Friday, September 23, 2011 19:48:26