The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I will email him.Can someone tag Nathan Carothers here. I’m sure he would be willing to contribute.
The ASTM standard says plus or minus 0.075 mm (~0.003 in).How tight are the tolerances for the specimen?
Sounds great! If it were me choosing I would keep the two temper comparison but replace the three temper with a 24h cryo to compare a 30-60 minute cryo with the sometimes recommended longer cryo.If you are keeping a list, Larrin, I checked my stock, and in addition to the z-wear and cru-wear already mentioned, I’ll do 8670 in two hardnesses. I’m seeing if I can get a sample of 20cv to compare to my third generation m390. If I can, I’ll do that as well, and third, I’ll do two extra z-wear samples trying two vs. three tempers, compared to the four I normally do. I don’t think four is absolutely needed, but I’d like to see the differences between two, three, and four tempers.
Sounds great! If it were me choosing I would keep the two temper comparison but replace the three temper with a 24h cryo to compare a 30-60 minute cryo with the sometimes recommended longer cryo.
We did a relatively extensive set of tests on CruForgeV: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/cru-forge-v-toughness-testing.1503654/Has any one offered up cruforgeV yet. I have a small stick I got from Salem that I could forge down into a few coupons.
15N20 on it’s way to Larrin today.
Hoss
Oh boy!15N20 on it’s way to Larrin today.
Hoss