Random Thought Thread

beeinak said:
Question: (I hope it is okay to ask here). I have noticed that many of the knives being sold are to CONUS only. Is there a reason Alaska is counted out? Is it ever reasonable to offer to cover extra shipping?
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I've sent knives to AK in the past without any drama. So, fear not if we ever have occasion to do a deal. Now Hawaii...well, you know what kind of Americans we have living there. (Just kidding nandok nandok )
 
Alone said:
Nice.


Do you recall, was it the "Guajillo Ranch"? (*Medina County...adjacent to Bexar County/San Antonio)

That was my Dad's ol' place, and he hosted a buttload of Hunters over the years.
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I don’t know the ranch name. I know it belonged to a gentleman who lived on it full time (about 45 min from NE Baptist Hospital) and apparently had quite the collection of blackbuck, Fallow, Axis, Nilgai, Corsican’s, etc and that doc was invited to fill his freezer at will. They used to fire a big cannon on 4th of July.

I don’t miss the TX heat or bugs, but I do miss the people, food, and lot’s of the critters.
 
Tell us more, Nathan. That picture is worth a thousand more words.

Also, aside from destruction, how would you evaluate the edge retention of Delta 3V and MagnaCut in typical tasks? (As an approximate percentage.)
 
Madranchtx said:
Is that limit a nail?
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Blues said:
Tell us more, Nathan. That picture is worth a thousand more words.

Also, aside from destruction, how would you evaluate the edge retention of Delta 3V and MagnaCut in typical tasks? (As an approximate percentage.)
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Hi Nathan, any consideration to document your progress in a manner understandable/ interesting to your clientele and post videos for updates/ material for your website, social media, Bladeforum?
 
Blues said:
Tell us more, Nathan. That picture is worth a thousand more words.

Also, aside from destruction, how would you evaluate the edge retention of Delta 3V and MagnaCut in typical tasks? (As an approximate percentage.)
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I'm seeing edge stability that is just as good and I know it has better wear resistance so I'm going to say that magna cut outperforms delta 3v in normal use and even some rough use. The difference occurs when you really start abusing it hard the magnacut chips out where the Delta 3V keeps going.
 
SwarthyGnome said:
Hi Nathan, any consideration to document your progress in a manner understandable/ interesting to your clientele and post videos for updates/ material for your website, social media, Bladeforum?
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I considered it but I have done it once in the past and this process is very time-consuming as it is, adding an additional layer of work to the process is going to impede the process
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm seeing edge stability that is just as good and I know it has better wear resistance so I'm going to say that magna cut outperforms delta 3v in normal use and even some rough use. The difference occurs when you really start abusing it hard the magnacut chips out where the Delta 3V keeps going.
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Can you help narrow down where the line is?
 
I was actually starting to feel a little sheepish thinking, crap, is magna cut better than Delta 3V? Because it just kept taking everything I was dishing it. It performs very well. I like this alloy a lot. But, you start to see the difference in the alloys when you get to a big hardened steel bolt.
 
That's awesome, Nathan. I think that speaks volumes on the capability of this alloy. I'll look forward to adding it when the opportunity presents.

Do you mind sharing what hardness you have it treated to...I understand that the protocol itself is proprietary.
 
Blues said:
That's awesome, Nathan. I think that speaks volumes on the capability of this alloy. I'll look forward to adding it when the opportunity presents.

Do you mind sharing what hardness you have it treated to...I understand that the protocol itself is proprietary.
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I have not finalized a hardness yet.

People need to remember, that hardness is just a number. It's a useful number but in my current stack of test samples both the best performer and the worst performer were both the exact same hardness. What matters is the ability to maintain a fine edge in normal use and shrug off gross damage in extreme use. And that hardness number probably won't be on one extreme or the other.

I am also having some difficulty repeating some of the higher hardness numbers that have been published. I am not a fan of running an extremely low temper (for a number of reasons), like below 300. I don't like running below 400. And so far, the hardest thing I'm testing is 62 and it is not the best performer.

I'm a full point below the published numbers creating the six control samples.

This is still a work in process. I had thought we would be delivering Magna Cut in the 62-63 range, because if it was 4V we would be starting there and going higher. This is the problem with coming into a project with preconceived notions rather than just working the process and seeing where it shakes out.
 
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