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Seems like that AISI 10xx series never ends. One more alloy that is used in knives and was missing from the chart, AISI 1069 steel. One would think AISI 1070 steel is pretty much the same, but may be someone can get 1069 cheaper or something...

Thursday, February 25, 2010 21:00:18

Man... That AISI 10xx series never end. Found out that AISI 1064 steel was also used in several knives, by several makers. Added more standard names to the following AISI 1055, AISI 1060 steels.

Thursday, February 25, 2010 13:31:42

And it started with less than 200 less than 6 months ago :)

Thursday, February 25, 2010 09:35:50

High speed tool steels, DBL and DBL2, both from Alegheny Ludlum.

Thursday, February 25, 2010 09:02:26

Two form Bohler-Uddeholm: N688 stainless steel and N692 stainless steel. Both were discontinued, but given the fact that both were used in cutlery, the knives made out of those two will still float around for a while, raising questions about their makeup.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 22:33:38

Found more precise composition of the Arne steel from Bohler-Uddeholm. Swedish version of the AISI O1 tool steel and W-Nr number is - 1.2510.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 17:36:17

5 new alloys from the French company called Bonpertuis. Actually, I've never heard of them, but while researching one of the Boker knives I stumbled upon T6MoV steel, and then dug up the rest of the bunch: T5Mo, T5MoV, T7Mo, and T9Mov. All are cutlery steels widely used in the Europe.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 15:01:09

Lost S6 E4

Well, the way this thing is going, there is still material for another 6 seasons. So much for promises of all the answers though :) For now a lot more questions. Well, at least it's enjoyable and as usual highly arguable, if you are a fan...

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 23:49:49

Image viewer changed from simple include to more advanced php based one. Displays relevant info from the cpg database, potentially will improve. So far that only affects knives images, but later I'll switch the rest of the sections of the website too.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 23:23:43

Restoring the selected alloys when going back from the comparison graph to the chart was broken. I've introduced a bug when switched from server side to client side sorting. Fixed now.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 18:03:06