LC200N vs Vanax Superclean

I think I’m sold on vanex! It was tested at 60 harness. I can’t really see a reason to deviate from that. Am I missing a good reason to go higher?

Is there anything special about this steel I should communicate with the maker? He’s never used it before.

Getting a BM altitude type backpack knife made in this.
 
Tarheelpwr said:
I think I’m sold on vanex! It was tested at 60 harness. I can’t really see a reason to deviate from that. Am I missing a good reason to go higher?

Is there anything special about this steel I should communicate with the maker? He’s never used it before.

Getting a BM altitude type backpack knife made in this.
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Heat treatment is paramount. If he's never worked with it, he could outsource it to Peter's or someone that has. Iirc it requires many temper and deep freeze stages.
 
Mo2 said:
Heat treatment is paramount. If he's never worked with it, he could outsource it to Peter's or someone that has. Iirc it requires many temper and deep freeze stages.
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Good deal. He said he uses Peter's for his HT of the super steels.
 
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Tarheelpwr said:
I think I’m sold on vanex! It was tested at 60 harness. I can’t really see a reason to deviate from that. Am I missing a good reason to go higher?

Is there anything special about this steel I should communicate with the maker? He’s never used it before.

Getting a BM altitude type backpack knife made in this.
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It operates at 60rc, not designed to go higher.
 
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chumaman said:
not related to the subject ... but again with regard to testing
Cedric and Ada, however much they should admit, recognize this work
in the other hand, these tests are far too deficient and more fun than they should
seriously refer to them ...
when I see just how Cerdic is holding the knife and at what angle he cuts o_O
These tests are just fun for youtube.

the man who performed tests on the far scientific method in a wider range
https://www.youtube.com/user/pavolko10/videos
http://www.fotogaleria.sandor.sk/ine/ostrie/Vysledky_testov.pdf
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Very late reply to an old thread. Would be interesting to see how many more tested were posted by the guy with that testing jig. I see a couple of issues with it, the most obvious being what happens with shorter blades? Is he accounting for blade length?

Given the lack of controls he has, Pete's tests hold up surprisingly well to controlled tests. As a lay person he has clearly demonstrated some basic truths about knife edges:

1. more acute edge angles cut longer
2. the stones/sharpener you use matters more than a little (edge quality)
3. factory edges are almost always less good than anybody can get at home with a sharpener
4. there is no correlation between hardness and edge retention across different steels (in other words, geometry, edge, and steel more more important than hardness, assuming reasonable heat treatment)

If you look at Pete's tests for a single edge angle across steels his findings are very consistent with what you see from Larrin. Despite the lack of controls, Pete's tests seem more than acceptable for general trend of steel edge retention.
 
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