What's the deal with MagnaCut?

[SharpBits]

I actually do expect that some early MagnaCut was subpar, because a lot of folks jumped on the new hotness trend without necessarily working out the changes in practice. A new steel means evaluating your production processes, heat treat, grinding practice, etc. We saw some of this with early adopters for MagnaCut where the heat treat was running it at pretty low (or very high) hardness. I would be unsurprised if things like that didn't cause a pretty wide variety in performance between some of the first couple years' of MagnaCut knives at different makers and manufacturers.

I agree. The same thing happened with S30V.

 

[Danke42]

I actually do expect that some early MagnaCut was subpar, because a lot of folks jumped on the new hotness trend without necessarily working out the changes in practice. A new steel means evaluating your production processes, heat treat, grinding practice, etc. We saw some of this with early adopters for MagnaCut where the heat treat was running it at pretty low (or very high) hardness. I would be unsurprised if things like that didn't cause a pretty wide variety in performance between some of the first couple years' of MagnaCut knives at different makers and manufacturers.

Some people, (who'll remain nameless) wrecked whole runs of blades and then ran in circles with their hair on fire.