You of all the members should be able to figure it out!I am also confused
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You of all the members should be able to figure it out!I am also confused
Maybe you should read it again, between the lines, if you are able to see it.That's a long post to say carbon steel is great, stainless has its place, and anything more super than 154 is too hard to sharpen and not worth the effort to own.
No, not a poor attempt at parody.Seems like a poor attempt at parody.
Chalk one up for the emotionally mature.Spark notes: Newer steels are over priced. D2 steel is great and kicked hitlers ass.
If one buys a knife made of 'D2', he can be sure it isn't the sintered form. D2 is formed by casting or forging. Powdered D2, which is an oxymoron, is formed by sintering. In order to draw a distinction between the two different forms of the alloy, the powdered version is given a different name. Otherwise, no user could tell the difference. D2 in sintered form is 'CPM-D2', so D2 does work differently, because poured steels work differently than sintered steels.in addition to everyone's replies, there is a very wrong statement in there - one which prooves this young kid just doesn't have any experience or knowledge on the science of this subject:
D2 doesn't work differently than powdered steel, they are all steel... if you made a powdered D2 (which is real & produced as cpm-d2 and other names) - you'd see that it in fact does display better all around properties than ingot d2
Your point about acid resistance is completely wrong.. powder vs ingot has no bearing on that aspect... chrome % in solution would likely have the most improvement
steel composition absolutely matters
heat treatment matters even more, in terms of getting a good work blade to last
your 'study' only proves most people are ignorant (which is pretty true on most any subject of science these days)
that should be your main take away![]()
I'll remember that. Satire doesn't work on Blade Forums.
And, I'm writing with my phone. That's the other reason I have to stop now.
Same blade shape? Same handle? Same everything but the steels? Or because you buy a lighter knife and confuse it to lighter steel? Because that screams bullI have a few knives with D2 blades, and they are fantastic! Between S35VN, D2 and S30V, I really can't tell the difference except D2 is a bit lighter weight and more lustrous than powdered steels.
You know what ¨Diminishing return" is? For your level, I will give you an example: When you close a valve, it gets harder and harder to tight. Where the force you used to tight is the money, and the tightness is the quality.All the hoopla over expensive steel is just that: a way to extract money from your wallet without giving you value for your dollar! Tell them to sell at a fair price!
Ah. I didn't realize that this part of your post was meant to be satirical. Not to get personal, but I based that on some of your other posts on this forum. Perhaps those were also made in jest?And the hype they're falling for is at least as faith-based as D2 saving the world because of God.
That would be a more valid sort of study.The studies you mention show no references, and seem arbitrary at best. A better study would be say interview X amount of knife enthusiasts and then the same number of non-enthusiasts but that use knives in their daily lives as a control group. I think you would find that most enthusiasts would prefer the best steel that they can afford, and the control group would mostly not care.
Are you dumb or just being facetious?What the ...what???
Why would people conducting a study of peoples opinions of knife steels care about the test subjects sexual orientation or political views? How would they even know? And what does any of that have to do with knife steels? And if they were "randomly selected", how is it all the test subjects were the same race, gender, sexual orientation and political persuasion? Or for that matter, why would they only select white males for the study? Don't women, and people of other races use knives?
Sounds like a pretty bizarre "study" to me. Do you have any links to it?
I can't take such a "study" seriously. Or your post.
EDIT: Forget I asked about the links to the "studies". I'm really not interested.
Erhm.... you only THINK it's straight, God fearing, males.It must have been determined by visual examination alone. Or, maybe there were no other kinds of males where it was conducted.
This is clearly an unnecessary discussion...Erhm.... you only THINK it's straight, God fearing, males.
You're in prime "Brokeback" country, son. I'd give your statistics a re-write at 75% straight males.
You and the dozens of men you know... you know?
Relax, he said that education level was ignored!they didn't use me in the study did they?