For three consecutive weekends I was conducting testing on hard versus soft edges theme. Gallery is up already, and the detailed report is almost finished. If all goes well, I'll publish the report tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 22:32:30
Got the 240mm Gyuto, as before it is 7000mc series, i.e. MC66 steel, which currently is Hitachi ZDP-189 steel.
Monday, May 24, 2010 21:38:19
Lost is finished and I am very disappointed
What the hell did just happen? A very lame ending for the rushed season. No answers to anything important, tons more questions. Basically, what we got was a mix of south park's dead celebrities episode style limbo with sixth sense style they dunno they're dead. So lame for the greatest TV show ever.
Monday, May 24, 2010 10:04:32
Final episode of lost
All good things come to an end, and so is the Lost. I really liked, it, first 3 seasons especially, can't say I was very happy with the excessive amount of unsolved and abandoned mysteries, especially in S6, but hopefully the finale will explain most important ones. And yeah, I do think that light thing was lame.
Sunday, May 23, 2010 21:55:44
2 weeks ago I've conducted part 1 of the test, cutting aluminum bottle caps with 64HRC Benchmade 710 M2 folder, which represented a super hard edge and a Calphalon paring knife, which is guesstimated 54-56HRC. Second test was pretty much a disaster for Calphalon. Detailed report in progress, but overall, it was a prety good illustration of the fact that the brittleness of the hard edges is generally exaggerated and the ease of restoring of the soft edges is also exaggerated. I couldn't restore the edge by steeling and stropping on the Calphalon today.
Sunday, May 23, 2010 00:07:33
Added over half a dozen new compositions, more than 50 new alloy names and corrected several typos in DIN and EN high speed steel standard names. New alloy compositions are from Ossenberg, one of the manufacturers nice enough to provide normal product list with compositions and reference standard names.
Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:58:52
Sorted out the mess with Hitachi HAP40 and HAP72 steels. Unfortunately, the original source listed few alternate names incorrectly, fixed them all. Although, the equivalents from other makers are still problematic, everyone lists them as they please.
Friday, May 21, 2010 22:51:39
Fred finished my custom knife finally :) It's made of Vanadis 4E steel, 66HRC. After totally stupid complications with Bofa wire transfer, I finally made it, hopefully the knife will be here in a week or two, without any troubles from volcanos and such...
Thursday, May 20, 2010 22:09:03
Added Latrobe DuraTech 420PM steel, similar to Crucible's CPM S90V steel, formerly CPM 420V. Added Latrobe proprietary Lescowear cold work tool steel. Added Metal Ravne proprietary OH255 cold work tool steel.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:47:28
Moved out OCR12V2 steel into its own group, it was incorrectly listed as AISI D7 tool steel, when in fact i's W-nr 1.2378, added spec composition of the 1.2378 tool steel.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:16:44