VIDEO: CS Voyager Cutting Test - Cardboard

[Ankerson]

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[DennisStrickland]

jim you cut cardboard at the same speed i do. i like to cut at the rate that the blade gets warm. i do my cuts on much heavier cardboard so as to reduce time needed to ascertain the edge ability. we may get lucky & hear something on this subject in the near future. one formite when he chooses does the most empirical tests on the durability of edges thAt i'm aware of. you were correct in advising myself to rebevel that voyager to get a more accurate cutting test.vg1 in my kitchen was the 1st hint i had that this was a good alloy.certainly cold steel has done better with this alloy than they had with aus8.

 

[Ankerson]

jim you cut cardboard at the same speed i do. i like to cut at the rate that the blade gets warm. i do my cuts on much heavier cardboard so as to reduce time needed to ascertain the edge ability. we may get lucky & hear something on this subject in the near future. one formite when he chooses does the most empirical tests on the durability of edges thAt i'm aware of. you were correct in advising myself to rebevel that voyager to get a more accurate cutting test.vg1 in my kitchen was the 1st hint i had that this was a good alloy.certainly cold steel has done better with this alloy than they had with aus8.

I have an AUS-8A video coming too, used a CS Recon 1.

Yeah VG-1 is good steel.

 

[knarfeng]

There is an assumption on the part of some folks that, because they don't like the marketing approach of the company or the personality of the owner, nothing that Cold Steel makes can have any goodness.

In the case of VG1, I think that Cold Steel has done a good thing. The Voyager VG1 blade I tested had a Rockwell hardness of 59. A Stainless steel containing ~1% Carbon hardened to a 59 is goodness, no matter who sells it.
(Although I also turn up my nose at the marketing hype the company uses.)

 

[Ankerson]

They really do make some great products though.

 

[shangchi108]

There is an assumption on the part of some folks that, because they don't like the marketing approach of the company or the personality of the owner, nothing that Cold Steel makes can have any goodness.

In the case of VG1, I think that Cold Steel has done a good thing. The Voyager VG1 blade I tested had a Rockwell hardness of 59. A Stainless steel containing ~1% Carbon hardened to a 59 is goodness, no matter who sells it.
(Although I also turn up my nose at the marketing hype the company uses.)

I agree. I deplore their marketing, but they do make good stuff.