Unbelievable, but fact :) I did manage to save some time with all the interactive knife steel chart related activities to finish up the preliminary review of this amazing knife. It's all there, save for actual usage data, which hasn't happened yet.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 21:33:18
Today's additions are: Vertex, DuraTech Pyrovan HC, CRV2, HAP40, HAP50, PMD440, RN15X, K190, S7 XL, Double Six, M2 EUR. This batch was a pretty good international mix. US, Japan, Sweden, Germany. All major steel manufacturers in short. Some really interesting specimens too.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 21:22:58
Today's additions are: Vertex, DuraTech Pyrovan HC, CRV2, HAP40, HAP50, PMD440, RN15X, K190, S7 XL, Double Six, M2 EUR. This batch was a pretty good international mix. US, Japan, Sweden, Germany. All major steel manufacturers in short. Some really interesting specimens too. And we're at 258 records as of today. More to come.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 21:22:58
Although it took a little longer than planned, partly thanks to PO, both lights are back and the result is just wow! Especially the key-Lux. It puts out over 200 lumens and for the light of that size it's pretty amazing. Hyper lux Vgot an upgrade too, but it mainly affects run-time and the flood is more even thanks to a better LED. Well, thanks to Chris once again. As soon as I get some free time I'll update the review.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 21:14:24
Added - CruForgeV, S390, M390, K390, GIN-5, S5, Duratech Mega4, Duratech M4, CPM154, SK3. Fixed data for Sandvik 13c26, AEB-L, AEB-H and few other minor fixes.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 22:24:16
That's the latest and greatest steel from Crucible Metallurgy. Except no knifemaker I know has used it so far and it's not even listed on Crucible website. Still, I hope once they sort out their bankruptcy thingy this steel will become more available and popular.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 09:26:25
Added the following steels: OH236Ni, OSIKRO5, K700, OH260, CRV1, CP8E, CPOH, WP7V, WR70U, PMD9, DuraTech Xtreme, DuraTech 420PM, DuraTech A11 and updated data for DuraTech 20CV steel.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 22:27:19
In the Steel Analyzer Graph:
1) Added normal support for a single alloy case. Now, when only one steel is selected the graph displays elemental makeup of that steel, and the legend displays elements that are in the alloy, i.e. name and percentage values. Plus if there are any notes attached to the steel record they are displayed below the graph.
Note - steel names can be passed directly into the url address like so:
http://www.zknives.com/knives/steels/steelgr aph.shtml?nm=a2,O6 that will display those two, A2 andO6, alternatively if you want to see single steel graph and notes use - http://www.zknives.com/knives/steels/steelgr aph.shtml?nm=a2, or select desired steel(s) in the database table and click Graph to build it.
3) Number of the alloys that can be displayed simultaneously in the graph (depends also on the elements chosen for the graph) increased from 7 to 10. You can't see more than 4 alloys if you select all of the elements to analyze, but for the cases when you want to compare 2-3 elements for 10 different alloys it's is now possible.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 20:09:37
In the Knife Steel Database:
1) You can sort by clicking anywhere in the header cell, not only on the name or the arrow. Sometimes it was real annoying aiming with mouse for those.
2) Improved drawing times/algorithm. Reduced table width. That should've fixed all the cases when the sorting direction arrow image was jumping to another line distorting the table header.
3) Added 11 new steels, mainly euro manufacturers. 232 records for now.
4) Added table row highlighting with mouseover. Helps with such a cramped table. So slow in IE...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 20:07:15
The table was getting too long and required some solution. Can't say I am very happy with what I coded, but better than nothing. If there are more than 20 records in the result recordset the table goes into scrolling mode. Header and footer are table column names, which are in the fixed positions and you can scroll the rest of the table between those two.
Monday, October 19, 2009 21:15:13