The sharpest, strongest, most durable knife on the planet

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Re: The sharpest, strongest, most durable knife on the planet

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They are using amorphous metal as a thin edge laminate. There are many knife available with this edge mostly kitchen knives. I wouldn't think a working knife would be a good idea as if you rip through the laminate you're left with stainless steel.
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Re: The sharpest, strongest, most durable knife on the planet

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StuntZombie wrote:
Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:44 am
It took a few read throughs, but I think I finally figured it out. They're basically doing the same thing Buck did years ago with their Ion Fusion knives, where one half of the blade edge was coated with TiN. So, despite their claims that this is the most advanced thing to come out of the knife world in 100 years, they're about 20 years behind Buck Knives. I have a feeling whatever "LIquidmetal Matrix" they've used on the edge will be quickly worn away by regular sharpening.
IIRC LM was discussed over BF like 1 years ago (?). Can’t recall what it turned out to be. It’s not crystalline like our martensitic steel, thus ‘liquid’ and ‘amorphous’.

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Re: The sharpest, strongest, most durable knife on the planet

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anagarika wrote:
Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:06 pm
StuntZombie wrote:
Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:44 am
It took a few read throughs, but I think I finally figured it out. They're basically doing the same thing Buck did years ago with their Ion Fusion knives, where one half of the blade edge was coated with TiN. So, despite their claims that this is the most advanced thing to come out of the knife world in 100 years, they're about 20 years behind Buck Knives. I have a feeling whatever "LIquidmetal Matrix" they've used on the edge will be quickly worn away by regular sharpening.
IIRC LM was discussed over BF like 1 years ago (?). Can’t recall what it turned out to be. It’s not crystalline like our martensitic steel, thus ‘liquid’ and ‘amorphous’.

Found one: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/liq ... al.363083/
I don't think it's actually "Liquid metal" like they were talking about on Bladeforums though. Honestly, it's not exactly clear what they're selling, other than a knife with a soft steel that supposedly has some sort of coating on the edge.
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Re: The sharpest, strongest, most durable knife on the planet

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It's described as glass like due to the additions of elements that create a glass matrix and are cooled extremely fast to maintain this structure. Most molten metal also start off in this state until it cools and then develops the familiar metal matrix everyone is familiar with. This metal is extremely promising, but as of now I think 1 mm is the thickest they've achieved for mass production.
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If the 1mm is used as core on a san mai design, that’s interesting ...
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anagarika wrote:
Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:10 pm
If the 1mm is used as core on a san mai design, that’s interesting ...
I don't think they would use it for the core. It's more of an outside layer but I don't know about that design.
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Re: The sharpest, strongest, most durable knife on the planet

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anagarika wrote:
Tue Dec 11, 2018 10:10 pm
If the 1mm is used as core on a san mai design, that’s interesting ...
That would be cool. Obviously not what they are doing in this case though.
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How do you sharpen the sucker if it’s that strong, all my sharpening stones are quivering....
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standy99 wrote:
Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:26 am
How do you sharpen the sucker if it’s that strong, all my sharpening stones are quivering....
Dur: on the kerb, like the real pros do. ;)
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standy99 wrote:
Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:26 am
How do you sharpen the sucker if it’s that strong, all my sharpening stones are quivering....
Use the force.

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Re: The sharpest, strongest, most durable knife on the planet

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demoncase wrote:
Thu Jan 10, 2019 2:08 pm
standy99 wrote:
Thu Jan 10, 2019 7:26 am
How do you sharpen the sucker if it’s that strong, all my sharpening stones are quivering....
Dur: on the kerb, like the real pros do. ;)
I thought it might sharpen itself each night, the metal is so special ;)
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