Wow, knife steel geek myself here (and avid reader of KnifeSteelNerds) and I have been wishing this existed for a long time. Awesome work, thank you!
Would you be able to add Damacore DC18N?
Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool
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#72The graph you chose feels useless to me. It seems like you built this without a target use case, neither practical nor academic.
Re: Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool
#73The graph you chose feels useless to me. It seems like you built this without a target use case, neither practical nor academic.
are you interested in steels? what do you think would be better?
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#74Obligatory link to the amazing blog about knife sharpness: https://scienceofsharp.com/
amazing, thank you
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#75I looked through most of the charts, and I it seems like you cannot get the best of two worlds. Can you get good edge retention, ease of sharpening and toughness at the same time? It would be nice with an example on how knife steel properties work. I assume there are balanced tradeoffs.
You don't get to have everything.
The point of a graph like that in this case is merely so that you can choose which aspects you need for a given application.
You decide which aspects you can live without to get the ones you can not live without, for a given application. Because it's either that or have a dull knife, or a broken knife, or a rusty knife, etc.
My favorite kitchen knife is tough and sharp but rusts easily. It's ok since it doesn't live in a tackle box on a boat, or in my leatherman.
At best you can have "good all-season tire" which at least doesn't completely suck to the point of failuire in any dimension but doesn't excell in any either.
Re: Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Magnacut is given the same rating as D2, 3V, VG10, and "440" (presumabbly 440C). Elmax, M2, and Cruwear are rated higher. CATRA testing by Magnacut's creator[0] suggests D2, 3V, VG10, and 440C should have a lower rating than Magnacut for edge retention, while Elmax, M2, and Cruwear should be the same. 5 probably is a reasonable rating for Magnacut though when Maxamet is 10. [0] https://i2.wp.com/knifesteelnerds.com/w…
Exotic outliers like Maxamet or 10V skew things so much they should be left off of ranking scales.
Larrin's ratings handle this by not having a fixed scale; REX 121 gets a 12 for edge retention. The rating seems to be roughly CATRA cards cut divided by 100.
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#77Where is the data from? How can I trust it? All of it looks LLM generated? Some of the plots and data from the comparisons seem to be missing or jumbled?
> All of it looks LLM generated?
Yeah, it's padded out to an absurd degree in the formulaic way that it does.
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#78Tangent: I had a decent benchmade griptilian folding knife for the last 10 or so years. Wasn’t the sharpest knife but I loved the form factor, grip, etc. I left it on the bed cover of my truck the other day while unboxing some towing equipment in a parking lot and took off accidentally. Looked at Amazon to replace it and they’re going for $200+ now. Is this just Amazon tax? Tarrifs? Something else? No way in hell I p…
Look up the Ritter Houge, or something like that. I think it's a less (maybe) expensive version of the griptilian from the same designer. I think. Could be wrong.
Houge's the brand. RSK-Mk1 is the model (Ritter Survival Knife). Sold exclusively at https://knifeworks.com/dr/
Benchmade used to make a variant of their Griptilian that he designed (the "Ritter Grip", and when they discontinued it, Hogue stepped up (proceeds go to support Ritter's https://kniferights.org/ organization)
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#79Where is the data from? How can I trust it? All of it looks LLM generated? Some of the plots and data from the comparisons seem to be missing or jumbled?
It's obviously a SEO farm filled with pure AI slop. Can't believe it made it to the front page here.
"In this comprehensive guide, we compare metal A vs metal B" with 100s of similar articles for every unique permutation of metals. Yeah right someone did that comparision... "Best pocket knife", "Best filet knife", Best Chef knife", bla blabla
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#80Awesome