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reswright
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Aug 15, 2020
by the way it looks like Sanrenmu has two three new models of axis lockers out and I absolutely cannot wait. https://www.srmknives.com/product/9202-gw/

https://www.srmknives.com/product/9211/

https://www.srmknives.com/product/9201/

Drop should totally see if they can source these. LOL too late, a very large internet based retailer named after a large river and vanishing jungle in South America has them. The thin curving ones appear to be 8Cr13MoV and the ones with blade apertures are D2. Neither are my first choice for a knife steel but D2 wears very slowly and 8Cr steels when heat treated just so can be fine knife steel. Today 8Cr13 or 14MoV is kinda close to the bottom of acceptable steels, which means inevitably that some people will mention its flaws and others outright disparage it. The only 'alloy' material that steel used to have was whatever carbon it took in and whatever trace elements were in the original ore as it was mined and then smelted down. It wasn't until later that people started trying to incorporate other elements, like in the production of wootz that made the reputation of Damascus steel and the janissaries that carried them so formidable, but aside from that, it was all about the ore and the mix of alloying elements and the types of carbides they might form with the incorporated carbon and how the local smithing techniques might work to best accentuate the resulting steel. Truth: a well made 8Cr sword would probably own ass on the best Japanese nihonto ever forged in those times. To us it's budget steel but it's a far purer and stronger and springier steel than even the very best steel makers could make back in the old days anywhere in the world. If you brought some billets of it to the master smiths of the old world, they'd have thought it magic steel, and swords made of it would have been thought magic swords. Nihonto were made from tamahagane which is smelted from iron sand, and despite the near holy attitude people get about Japanese swordsmithing, the iron sand they used to smelt was filled with impurities, and one can even argue that the reason the Japanese came up with advanced techniques to work with steel is that they had to in order to get any performance out of tamahagane.
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