All is going well, unless my head explodes. Working on database enhancements, coding steel chart 4 and in parallel coding iphone version of the steel chart. Can't say doing 3 things together is a lot of fun, but still interesting. Starting tomorrow, I'll be focusing more on web version, which is the primary anyway.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 23:34:40
Finally it's here :) Custom made, nesmuk type knife from Shinichi Watanabe. well, it's more of a blank to be precise, no handle, but heat treated, sharpened and finished. Talking to Dave Martell about installing a handle. I'll post pix tomorrow.
Friday, November 4, 2011 22:29:19
Managed to work on the steel chart 4.0 project pretty much daily this week. Considering that it ain't my day job, average time per day was 2-3 hours, but that's still better than nothing :) Hopefully I'll get a lot more done this weekend.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 21:40:30
The knife is back from the repair service, and I did manage to carry it second half of the day. In fact, I have it on me as I type this. As for the repair itself, turnaround was pretty quick for the warranty service, and the problem seems to be fixed. The blade is almost perfectly centered, and the action is still smooth. One thing I am not so happy about, they sharpened the blade and I really wonder why. It wasn't in the repair request, may be I should've asked not to. I've sent it 15 deg. per side, 100k finished, mirror polished edge, and got back something that's close to 800 grit finish, and more problematic, the edge is back to factory original 20 deg per side. In short, I have to sharpen it again... Probably I won't go 100K again, I want to experiment with relatively rough edges. So, I figure I'll go about 3K and then strop.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 21:45:08
Got nice Haloween present :) On Oct. 31 Shinichi sent emai, my nesmuk knife is completed, it'll arrive in a few days. I Still needot figure out who will make a western handle for it. but still, the main part is done.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 00:13:45
Just got the email from Benchmade warranty service. Repairs were completed and the knife was shipped to me. UPS says, scheduled delivery date is on November 2nd. Keeping fingers crossed. I missed that knife already. Hopefully the issue is completely resolved and won't occur again. And I really hope it'll be as smooth as before. Well, lots of hopes, let's see how it all turns out. Updates when the knife comes in.
Monday, October 31, 2011 16:47:54
HTC specific fix, workaround for database installer failure on some HTC phones, including inspire. If database installation still fails, database recovery from the menu is now available. Special thanks goes to Ken, for helping out with debuggin the issue.
Friday, October 28, 2011 19:50:48
Well, turned out 110X18MShD steel is the same alloy as 110X18M steel, which was already in the steel chart, except for the incorrect Molybdenum content, which was listed as 3%, indstead of 0.80%. Fixed that, both alloys are in the AISI 440C steel group, where they belong by composition, even though 110X18MShD is made using ESR/VAC technology, still, composition chart is just that, grouping alloy y composition, not by alleged performance.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 23:08:47
It's been in the database for a while, however I had no exact info regarding Vanadium content, various sources all referring to the same quote about having dash of vanadium in it. Well, today on BF it the mystery was solved, and dash turned out to be 3.00% ;) So, now we have exact data, see Nippon Koshuha OU-31 steel composition.
Saturday, October 22, 2011 19:25:36
After much deliberation and contemplation, pools and such, I've finally made myself to get started on iphone version of the knife steel chart. I do more then enough of iphone programming at work, and frankly, Android programming is much more fun, but alas, there's a lot of knife nuts with iphones(sadly)... ~30% of the smartphone users in knife world are on iphone, 60% on android, so I figured, what the hell... Updates as I progress. The thing is, this all coincided with web knife steel chart 4.0 development, which requires database schema change, so I have to work simultaneously on web version, android steel chart 3.0 and now iphone as well. Tablet versions will follow next year I guess.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 20:44:10