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If you have a copy of Dr. Larrin Thomas' book: The Story of Knife Steel
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Second paragraph down - and read about K294...

Heck of a great steel... Heck of a great price herein too at $95 ish...

Best wishes to all,

Steven Wayne Knight

NOPE! NADA!

Love to have a list like that above on all the current and past knives...

Ole History becoming that...

Like Big Brown Bear mentioned above "it is kinda like weight"
The bigger the number the Bigger the Bear... ;>)

Thanks LOVE all four of your S15V Spyderco knives... Manix, PM2, Shaman, and the Mule Team...

Amen...

Now all we need is a S125V MULE TEAM ARMY example...

Thanks for the CHART ABOVE! YOU CLOK'ed that right... Interestingly it showed ANKERSON's old figures are VERY similar... Nice to have something right... The S110V Mule around 60 RC -720 cuts The S110V Manix around 62 RC - 1120 cuts If one searches Darin's book on Knife steels - one finds out that 12...

Bolster THANKS for LIST very informative...

Shows me the VALUE of timing and being Johnny on the SPOT - read Computer...

Thanks for posting all 3 of you. MUCH appreciate the information...

Agree with the science but wonder why the HIGHER RCs sure seem in great STEELS to out-preform the same steel with less hardness by doubling the cuts...

Ranking of Steels in Categories based on Edge Retention cutting 5/8" rope Thread starter Ankerson Start date Nov 24, 2010 1 2 3 … 161 Next Ankerson Ankerson Knife and Computer Geek Joined Nov 2, 2002 Messages 21,093 Nov 24, 2010 #1 What I have done is rank the steels in Categories based on edge...

Well done everyone.

Wear Resistance
more than
Hardness
more than
Edge stability

make for testing cut numbers...

Good answer BOLSTER!

We will see...

Thanks AGAIN...

Weeping Minora: Found this for you: https://www.amazon.com/Thing-3-Movie-Collection-Margaret-Sheridan/dp/B0C32W4XHW/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2GJO73SBO9B94&keywords=The+thing&qid=1692122460&sprefix=the+thing%2Caps%2C549&sr=8-6 Old James Arness (T.V. Gunsmoke- fame) plays the THING in 1951 movi...

Like the CPM S15V - when "BBB" posted that he hit 65 HARDNESS right here on the forum... The scariest MOVIE I ever saw was a 1951 movie - entitled THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD... I was about 7 at the time... I was waiting for it to visit me... smiled at your post - Weeping Minora... that w...

If one reads the very readable book: "THE STORY OF KNIFE STEEL" by member here, Dr. Larrin Thomas... ESPECIALLY Pages on HARDNESS = 110, 144, 151, 155, 166, 379, 441, 472... You will see that with many steels a higher HARDNESS allows the knife steels to be more aggressive in their number o...

Their TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS from BOHLER website states from: 54 (heat treatments 565 to 1010 degrees) TO 64 (heat treatments 565 to 2150 degrees) I remember reading about V15 and "BigBrownBear" being a gentleman and always giving us the insight on "THAT" great 4-way release. T...

Replaced my TOTO toilet seat - the one with SOFT CLOSE with BOTH the seat and the cover. I POPPED the plastic lids open to get to INSTALL the large plastic screws and special lock nuts on the bottom.... It was a tight fit - the replaced seat had a bigger area where a small small screw driver would h...

Lightweight Gray Manix 2 Maxamet blade and Sprint Brown Manix 2 CPM 15V blade...

Sharpened on set-up Edge Pro Professional to very sharp & polished every few days...

Wish you all the best...

Extremely WELL DONE "TTFulltimer"

Tell the retired son "well done good and faithful servant."

Been there done that...