Case CV steel, as the name suggests is the Case proprietary alloy, used in their knives. Pretty much the same approach used in 1095 Cro Van steel, i.e. plain carbon steel with the addition of trace amounts of Chromium and Vanadium, 0.65% Cr and 0.22% V to be precise.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 21:02:20
Dynaminc popup notes in the steel chart and autosuggest results in the graph builder were both centered after I changed site layout. Dunno hot it was for you, but it was really difficult to use them that way. Back to left aligned text. Wasn't a planed change, just a bug.
Monday, November 22, 2010 10:27:33
Accidentally found Z-Wear PM tool steel in one of theposts on BF. Then called the distributor. Zapp made steel, according to sales rep. it's a replacement or an equivalent of the Crucible CPM 3V steel.
Friday, November 19, 2010 21:52:59
Small update in the review. Finally, I got first hand information about he A-Type designation, which apparently is used to indicate Gokinko steel, not asymmetrical edges. All that is good, except I still don't have the composition of the Gokinko steel, except that 7% Chromium in it.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 20:44:15
Switched to center column design. Should be easier to read. Also, fixed super wide knife steel composition table in the firefox browsers. Sadly, they never fixed word break issue, it's been around for years. Well, it's same as in other browsers now, had to code workaround.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 21:45:40
300K hits reached :) And I'm still working on the next gen chart builder.
Friday, November 5, 2010 22:24:26
Benchmade 707 Sequel's cousin, made for Blackwater company. Nice, little folder, in may ways identical to the predecessor, but the blade geometry is different. Enough to make oyu think about choosing one or the other, unles you want them both. 154CM steel, G10 handles, all black design, complete with Blakcwater logo. Details in the review.
Monday, November 1, 2010 18:59:29
Got them on Saturday, pix and specs coming soon. One is mine, small utlility/peeler, looks more like a muki, slightly different, as I was designing it for specific purpose, to be precise vegetable cleaning/prepping. Secondone was for my friend, large, 240mm miroshi deba.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 16:34:37
While YoshiBlade website tells you in many ways how wonderful and universal their knives are, and how they replace drawers of knives, their care and maintenance brochure is far more restrictive and tells you exactly what you shouldn't attempt with ceramic knife. Definitely worth reading before buying the knife. I think it is very wrong not putting those warnings on the same website where they promote their knives, because online sales is the primary source. Although, given their tactics to lure unsuspecting buyers into buying more on their site, I'm not surprised.
Monday, October 18, 2010 18:15:17