one more parer review posted. had it for a short time, very similar in terms of performance with other German paring knives, no wonder though. Anyway, check the review for the details.
Monday, May 3, 2010 20:09:47
Review is up, didn't have too many things to say, ordinary knife, very similar to the same style Henckels santoku. Nothing overly exciting, but will do as an ok budget knife.
Sunday, May 2, 2010 14:53:10
This time it's a relative newcomer to the knives, Panzer 36 steel. Although it has been around for over 20 years in medical field. Pertty much a clone of Bohler-Uddeholm N690 steel, which is used by several makers. Cali (of BF) dug up another name for N690 used by Boker N690NBO, added that to the name group as well.
Saturday, May 1, 2010 13:21:24
Added AISI L4 tool steel composition, fixed AISI L1 tool steel composition, fixed AISI L7 tool steel composition and added proprietary name.
Friday, April 30, 2010 17:37:45
Well, to be precise the info was about Metal Ravne OCR3 tool steel, which is also DIN 1.2008. Apparently it was discontinued 10 years ago by Metal Ravne, but still very decent steel and knives are made out of it, at least customs.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 21:37:02
Larrin(from KF and BF) was nice enough to let me use his work. Proper definitions of such important terms(for the knives at least) as wear resistance, toughness, strength, edge stability, etc were added.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 16:56:58
Added AISI M50 tool steel composition and several standard and proprietary names for it.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 09:44:11
On Monday 2010-04-26, the knife steel comparison graph page got 100K hits :)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 09:42:20
Added about 180 new names for CSN, DIN, W-Nr and GOST standards to existing steel compositions. So, for now you can identify about 1800 steel names! Never thought there were so many steels used in knives though. And by my rough estimates that's not even 60% of the names for the ones that are already in the chart. I'm still missing bunch of standard names for many steels, nevermind the fact that I only have the most widespread standards.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 23:52:04