AEB-L Cutting tests and first impressions

thombrogan said:
There's a quote about 3V being like 1050 with some amount of added carbide that's been attributed to a retired Crucible employee.
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Is that the same guy from Crucible who said that 3V was a bad steel for knives?
 
db said:
Edge stability was one of those Cliffisms that he would use to give him wiggle room because it is a term that wasn't commonly used or defined. ...
I'd also bet 5 years ago you never heard anyone, other than Landes, say edge stability either until it started being used on this forum. Correct or not some terms get a life of there own, and being undefined is probably why.
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Cliff used the term about 1500 times more often. I recall a number of Mr. Landes posts about carbide size, and other concepts integral to the idea of edge stability (that fold-up carbide size thing he posted was neat), and noticed that he was very judicious in his use of the term. He usually used the more standard characteristics (grain size, carbide size, etc.) to explain his ideas. I wonder if he has gotten his hands on any FFD2 yet - it ought to have sky high edge stability (now I'm doing it too!).

Here he defines it as the the ability of a thin sharp edge to keep that edge.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4485405&postcount=39
 
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