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Toughness would increase with hardness in this case according to Crucible's reccomended hardness values for S30V. 55-57 is not ideal for this steel and that is clearly shown with the GB.
Some people have a hard time understanding that being able to take a (profanity) load of abuse is not the most important thing about a knife.
If we could go back in time before Noss started his knife tests and grind serrations into all of the originally non-serrated knives subjected to mallet strikes, I would surmise that all of the knife test breakage results would mirror those of the GB and Project I.
Hello everyone. I have wanted a Chris Reeve one piece for years, so I've been following this thread for a while. My question for Artilary6 is how did you determine the quote above? All I could find on Crucibles spec sheet is that the aim for hardness is 58-61. Despite the controversy in this thread, I would still love to get a Shadow IV!
That depends on the specific details of each knife and the serrations applied. The fact that he has tested knives with serrations that did ok leads me to believe that serrations alone cannot be used as an excuse for a break.
.... I'm pretty sure noone will break the knife in real world use since most people don't abuse knives in such a way....
Give me a break...why in he heck would CRK feel a need to respond about a "test" done by some guy wearing a mask![]()
When questions are raised with respect to the integrity of my work, I tend to respond.
Turn that around: questions have been raised about the integrity of noss4's work. Even if he were to respond, what could he say that his tests have already failed to convince us of?
I'm not sure I'm following your pronouns. Definitely not trying to make a statement about test conditions, or whether the subject event even qualifies as a test in any clinical way.
I meant "integrity" literally; as in, something physically broke. I did not mean it in the context of either man's character, or the efficacy of Noss's work as a test. Sorry if that was ambiguous.
It just doesn't make any difference to me whether Noss wears a ski mask, masturbates hanging from the ceiling... whatever. The knife snapped in half while doing something I would expect it to do without catastrophic failure, and more importantly, something that other relatively similar knives have done without catastrophic failure.
Just to be clear, I do think there's a degree of silliness in all of this. That doesn't change the fact that the two knives broke prematurely, though. And I choose to take interest in that fact. Noss could be a complete idiot, and Chris could be god's gift to cutlery, and I would still be interested in what CRK had to say about this.
if someone has already made up their mind that the knife sucks, then CRK can't say anything to convince them otherwise really. Just like if someone thinks NOSS' tests are bunk, what can he say to convince you otherwise? "No they aren't" ? Anyways, if NOSS' ceilngs arent any stronger than the GB I doubt he'd be able to masturbate while hanging from them.