I see that the material is investment cast. It doesn't say the blade is. For all I know he's casting bars and slicing them into knife blanks. And we won't even get into the "discovery of dendritic steel" mumbo jumbo.
-AJ
Cool! Thanks!
-AJ
There was a bit of buzz probably 8-10 years ago on Blade Forums about a product called Liquid Metal and the possibility of casting finished size blades. It disappeared from mention fairly quickly. I remember the general thought being that it would probably only apply to mass production knives, because the mold making process was pretty expensive. I am assuming that since we haven't heard about it in a long time, that the stuff didn't end up being advantageous to use for knife blades.
Here's a link:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/sh...idmetal-knives
From this link: http://boyeknives.com/
"Not a steel, it is a mixture of cobalt, chrome, nickel, tungsten, silicon, iron, and carbon."
It's got Iron + Carbon...what else is needed to call it steel?
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Stuart Ackerman (formerly Zackerty) also does cast blades in, I think 440c. Really nice knives take a ferocious toothy edge, hence the name Serrata. AFAIK he's doing a colab with spyderco which is currently underway
Thanks TB, that helped a lot. I was able to find this:
http://knifedogs.com/showthread.php?...ng-the-Serrata
It's a different approach than what I was envisioning but pretty slick. He's getting a much better yield than I would have thought. Very interesting.
-AJ
Since my name is on the thread I'll just say I have nothing to say.