Majority of the new names are for the Hungarian MSZ standard, Polish PN standard and few more names for US AISI and German DIN standards.
Monday, February 17, 2014 21:55:31
Picked up Hiromoto gyuto, made out of the Hitachi gin-3 steel. A present for my friend again :) Quite a blade, considering its price. As far as good gyutos go, that one is quite a bargain. Solid performance, in terms of edge holding and superb cutting ability, mainly thanks to very thin blade. Still, I'd classify it as a workhorse, not as a fancy knife. Details in the review. Follow the link.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 22:11:28
After all those years :) Finally, Spyderco published more precise composition. It's still not as precise as I'd like it to be, but better than what it was before. Apparently it had less Wolfram, few other elements were adjusted as well. Cobalt, Niobium and contaminants are specified as trace amounts, although, in that case what would one call 0.10% of Vanadium anyway :) The information is still somwhat incomplete. Well, another decade or two and we might know exact composition :) Follow the link for data.
Monday, January 20, 2014 18:38:26
New alloy, best i can tell, showed up in late 2013, from Zapp. Stainless steel, low on Carbon, just 0.30%, however has pretty respectable 0.50% Nitrogen, and few other things to help with wear resistance, toughness, etc. So far only Spyderco listed in their used steel listings, but no knife announced yet.
Saturday, January 18, 2014 18:13:15
After long break, or long development and testing cycle, new version is up. A lot of new features, and bunch of bugfixes too. Highlights include, Bookmarks system, you can bookmarks alloys as you need, and view bookmarks in a dedicated view, also you can export and import bookmarks from the app, if you need to share or migrate them. Quick search is now at the top of the steel browser, allowing for, you guessed it, quick searches :) Removed menu system, replaced with toolbars. It's faster from the usability point of view, but I'd be lazy to do it just for that, but I got more than one complaint and one 2 star rating because user couldn't figure out how to preform search(!) I thougt all Anndroid users knew about the menu button, but apparently I was wrong. There are a lot more features and fixes, check the changelog on zvisoft.com for details. Enjoy.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013 23:12:39
After long break, or long development and testing cycle, new version is up. A lot of new features, and bunch of bugfixes too. Highlights include, Bookmarks system, you can bookmarks alloys as you need, and view bookmarks in a dedicated view, also you can export and import bookmarks from the app, if you need to share or migrate them. Quick search is now at the top of the steel browser, allowing for, you guessed it, quick searches :) Removed menu system, replaced with toolbars. It's faster from the usability point of view, but I'd be lazy to do it just for that, but I got more than one complaint and one 2 star rating because user couldn't figure out how to preform search(!) I thougt all Anndroid users knew about the menu button, but apparently I was wrong. There are a lot more features and fixes, check the changelog on zvisoft.com for details. Enjoy.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013 23:12:39
One of the very few knives very severely damaged during the tests. But it served science well, and the edge was successfully restored. A present form my coworker, and testing it was partly on his request, but alas it didn't serve as asll in the role of primary kitchen knife as my coworker wanted it to. TO be honest, he does manage to use this tiny knife as a general food prep knife, but I could bit. For a budget knife it isn't a bad piece though.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013 00:24:36
Not much, but did an overview, mainly because of the fact that I've learned what HG was standing for :) Apparently that wasn't for the hogs, but for Hollow Ground.
Sunday, December 22, 2013 00:56:36
Didn't have much time lately to work on the database. Still, kept adding things here and there. As the release of the new Android steel chart nears, I got more time to sift through the steel catalogs, and here we are, almost 5800 names :)
Thursday, December 19, 2013 23:39:52
One more Chinese steel used by several knife makers in western world and I suppose by quite a few makers in China as well. 9Cr14MoV steel has lower Chromium content compared to GB 9Cr18MoV steel, decent amount of Carbon and trace amounts of Mo and V.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 22:21:42