If you’re going to be in Atlanta for The Blade Show next weekend, check out the Nautilus HD Dive Knife in booth 405. The Terravantium alloy will never rust, keeps on cutting.
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If you’re going to be in Atlanta for The Blade Show next weekend, check out the Nautilus HD Dive Knife in booth 405. The Terravantium alloy will never rust, keeps on cutting.
Tags: Terrain 365
You misspelled “alloy” with “allow”.
Anyway: What the heck is that Trademark? Could companie just provide the damn alloy mixture in some SI- Standard? If somebody wants to steal your top secret info the material science community just do a spectral analyisation on it. Takes 20 seconds if you got the device – or 150USD and you just give it to some labrotary – which will do some nice metallographic analyzis of your thermo-chemical processes aswell… That is why every SERIOUS blade manufacture is not making mystical Trademark shit.
For a person who comes out right off the bat with an alert to not having utilized correct spelling, you may want to check yourself first, for your numerous spelling errors and improper use of the English language (spelling and conjunction combined).
I’m with you: Proper grammatics should be always applied – but I’m sure I will fail again because english isn’t native to me. But to give SSD a hint about the misspelled word wasn’t driven by the intention to go hard on him, it was just a side info 😉
Wrong.
Busse uses and is filthy rich off of a proprietary steel. They sell damn near every knife they make to a rabid fan base that buys multi hundred dollar knives sight unseen, all day every day.
But many big companies use steels they can get in bulk, are familiar with and know how to heat treat well to bring forth the properties they are going for in the design. Your idea that since some sketchy company CAN send someone else’s proprietary steel to a lab and have it analyzed, then copy it and somehow be successful in the market place it far fetched. So your theory is to just make their proprietary formula public to make it easier for the thieves? I don’t think you actually know how it works, Leacher.
Nope:
I studied material science, and am specialized into heat threadong of Fe-Alloys. So, when I demand the SI- Standard, it is about me and other beeing able to understand why they choosed that alloy. As next, only by knowing the Material you are able to recognize what thermo-chemical afterprocess is proper for your application – and you are able to see the quality you receive. Material Science is no secret: The alloy they use is known to the public already, because they never developed it, they just ordered one of 10.000 available alloys. So. Every serious try to copy that will not fail by a Trademark. Like I sayed: I do a few spectral analysis, and after that I will prepare two probes, onr in X and one in Y Axis, and will watch it under a top-down light microscopy device with just 100 to 500 factor zoom, and while that will do some Vickers Hardnesstests. The whole process takes not even 1 hour and you will have all the info you can possibly get!
Anyone know how this compares to Spyderco H1 steel? Love H1 in/around salt water but it suffers in edge retention.
@Ian
That would be the only real problem I have with an untested proprietary steel.
Even if the data was printed you’d just be getting a ball park guess by looking at the values of what is in it, compared to something you were familiar with. That guess wouldn’t include how well this new company heat treats either. You would really have to buy one and test it, or wait for some reviewer you trust to do so. So unless it is some design you can’t live with out I’d skip it and go for something tested.
I don’t care for Spyderco’s H1 much either. I use a light weight native in Spyderco’s S110V every day as my gym/workout/yard work knife and it has great properties, and has never seen a speck of rust. You could also go with a coated stainless, or satin finished stainless, and put some car wax or tuff cloth on it and just rise it after coming in out of the salt water.
Best of luck.
Hardenable alloy that doesn’t corrode?
I wonder how it compares, price-wise, to HpTiNite.
http://sb-specialty-metals.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SM-100-Blade-article.pdf
Am I seeing things or is this missing a tang?
Looks like it has a sort of stick tang. You can kind of see a “darkness” that I assume is the tang when you look towards the bottom of the holes in the handle.
I won the raffle at blade show in Saturday and got the knife in the first picture. This is an awesome blade. It is comfortable to hold and so far holds an edge. Given I’ve only used it for one day at work, it seems great so far. I’ve worn down many an edge quickly on my job.
I will try to remember to update after I use it more.