This time, Japanese OU-31 PM tool steel. High carbon, particle metallurgy tool steel with addition of unspecified amount of Copper, made by Nippon Koshuha. As far as I know Spyderco tested it, but never used, and SOG did make few very expensive knives from it.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 14:53:03
After publishing the Henckels Miyabi 7000MC series Santoku knife review, I was contacted by Hekcnels Japan head of ops. Nice guy, and what's really nice of him, he provided quite a bitof the info I was intrested in. First hand :) Updated review will be up soon.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 09:50:25
Version 2.1 I guess. Removed all of the notes and help files(elements, quick help) from the initial load. That saves about 100K of data, well it's much less compressed, but still. Also, that reduces DOM element number form 10500 to about 7800. Speeds up javascript on the page considerably, especially for the slow browsers, like MSIE. Notes and help data are retrieved using AJAX async calls. Pretty much unnoticeable. Well, ejnoy faster chart and lemme know if there are any problems.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 14:50:00
I'm not sure how did I miss it when the chart went online, this is in Benchmade catalog. Chinese 8Cr14MoV stainless steel.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:47:35
This is pretty much first serious sharpening. Well, the only thing I have used was the Kitayama 8000-12000 grit Japanese synthetic whetstone. After that the usual stropping on 0.50mic and 0.25mic diamod crystal loaded strops and then the plain leather strop. I really like sharpening Aogami super steel. It is wicked sharp now. All in all, 15 minutes on the kitayama, and 30 minutes on the strops.
Monday, February 8, 2010 21:59:01
Another long overdue review is up. Even with all the compiled notes it still takes few days to get all that in order and write up a review. Anyway, as far as Shuns go, IMHO it is one of the best price/performance ratio knives in their lineups. Detailed review in the link...
Monday, February 8, 2010 20:31:00
I was wrong, and Silver 1, 2, 3 steels are nothing new, those are the Gin 1, Gin 2 and Gin 3 steels from Hitachi. So, in the end we have just 1 new alloy, KK from Hitachi and 3 new, alternate names for GIN series steels.
Monday, February 8, 2010 20:29:24
All 4 alloys ar eform Hitachi. Their YSS specialty steels. Silver 1, Silver 3, Silver 5 and KK carbon steel. Silver series steels are different from British Silver Steel(BS1407).
Monday, February 8, 2010 14:54:17
Finally, got over my laziness and added contact for with captcha. Kindda late, since the email I posted looong ago, as my contact email using mailto link is by now known to every imbecile with a spambot, but at least I wont' pickup new spam. I think there are no more mailtos left on my site.
Sunday, February 7, 2010 22:38:47
Well, since the page relies on javascript anyway, added or to be precise deferred loading of javascripts and help file. Slightly faster :) Well, those things add up, so I'll work more on that.
Sunday, February 7, 2010 22:36:07