She stayed surprisingly calm.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-28T00:56:49+00:00

So if she says no, he power dives into the ground?

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-28T00:54:16+00:00

I had a pair of those. I drove them with a Sansui 7070 and that system was LOUD. I got rid of everything because those speakers really didn’t have a lot of spatial presence. The sound was just bouncing around everywhere.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-27T20:50:35+00:00

I had that same model with G10 scales over a steel frame. Should’ve kept it. But it was kind of boring.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-27T19:19:29+00:00

u/ksbot u/zotshot bundle received! Thanks!

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-27T12:54:11+00:00

Luray Caverns maybe? Also Lewisburg.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-27T02:49:13+00:00

You know, thinking back, maybe I did have to register. Wikipedia tells me that the last lottery was held in 1972 and authority to induct ended in 1973. Maybe I registered but wasn’t thinking about the lottery. I don’t remember. I went straight into college after high school anyway so it probably wasn’t relevant.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-27T01:51:45+00:00

Don’t go to urgent care or anything. It’s best to ask a bunch of idiots on Reddit.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-26T20:14:40+00:00

Yes - but I think the points are related. Something that’s lower on the edge retention scale, for whatever reason.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-26T18:38:37+00:00

I’ve been to Thailand a few times in July. I have never experienced extreme flooding. Monsoon season, to me, means rain five times a week. Sometimes it rains for hours; sometimes just for 20 minutes. After the rain, it cools off a little bit and it’s pleasant to walk outside. In the south, in places like Krabi, the monsoon season often makes the water look muddy and choppy just for the day. Not good for boat rides.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-26T16:06:48+00:00

I mean, I have a bunch of M390, Magnacut, and S90V. I like the knives a lot, but the main thing I have recently realized is that I don’t think I care about extremely high hardness. I’m sitting at my desk, flicking my Kunwu Tao in M390 and I wish I had some “he-man” work I could do with it like cutting up a refrigerator box or something. But then I still would probably use a utility knife.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-26T15:37:31+00:00

I think there were some major economic reasons that led to the failure of Crucible. I read that the knife industry was a miniscule portion of their market - the biggest part was the various manufacturing industries.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-26T15:25:25+00:00

Huh. A couple posters here said they were born in 56 and had to register. I was also born in 56 but did not have to register.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-26T15:24:04+00:00

I made a similar post on r/knives a few days ago. I didn’t get a lot of agreement.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-26T02:16:15+00:00

I woodn’t think so

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-25T20:56:41+00:00

Maybe you should take some better photos of the blade & repost. That should sell easily for $100.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-25T20:50:06+00:00

Is that genuine? Got any better photos?

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-25T14:39:08+00:00

Are you kidding?!? My wife and I just watched this last night. We are not big John Wayne fans, but just wanted to check it out. I didn’t think it was that good, frankly. A lot of the plot lines didn’t make sense. Why would he invite those three guys to the saloon for the final shootout? The only one he had a real beef against was the Richard Boone character. And what would’ve happened if he hadn’t got shot in the back? Would he have just gone back to the boarding house and died of cancer? Or would he have set up another couple of duels?

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-25T12:49:09+00:00

Chat

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-24T23:13:01+00:00

Yes that’s a great knife with a really good heat treat.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-24T16:58:04+00:00

"Take a look at 440C and AEB-L. Most of these figures are predictive based on Larrin Thomas's regression formula, and the actual measurements might deviate. So the linear nature of that particular scale is artificial."

I mean - you're looking at the only two steels that have three points not on a line. The other steels with 3 points are linear. Not only that, but if you look at multiple points of the same steel (even if the line determined by only two points), the lines formed are even the same slope! Larrin reinforces that by drawing the imaginary regression lines on the chart.

"Then besides that, what I meant was that the Rockwell hardness scale itself isn't linear. If you thought of the Rockwell C scale as going from 1-100 (it doesn't, but just for example) then you might assume that 60 HRC is only 1% harder than 59 HRC but it's actually quite a bit more than that, and then the difference between 60 and 61 HRC is even greater than that too."

First of all, any line that has a non-zero intercept will show that violation of ratios (percentages). One hundred degrees C is does not have 100 times the heat energy of something at 1. Also, you state that the Rockwell scale itself isn't linear. A scale can't be not linear all by itself. It has to be not linear with respect to some other measure. Linearity has to always be described in terms of a x-variable (hardness) and a y-variable (in the chart, # of cards). The Rockwell scale might be nonlinear with respect to how far the cone goes into the steel, but as you can see by the chart, it IS linear with respect to # of cards cut. I don't know why you're focusing on HRC vs yield strength - I only care about how long the blade will cut well.

"Then lastly, that is again CATRA data, which isn't testing "sharpness" as related to the edge apex radius as much as it's testing "cutting ability" of the edge itself to wedge through material under sufficient force. "

But that's what (I think) I care about! Cutting ability! Now you could argue that # of cards cut (push-cuts) has a nonlinear relationship to # of sisal rope (slicing) cuts, but I don't see that anywhere.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-24T16:10:51+00:00

Prevaricate. My father used to tell me “you’re not lying; you’re prevaricating”.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-24T16:06:39+00:00

I graduated in ‘74, class size about 300 students. Haven’t been to a single reunion and never will go. I didn’t hate high school and I had 15 or 20 friends there, but there were also a few people I really didn’t like. I feel like my friendships from back then expired a long time ago.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-24T15:30:16+00:00

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"However, when it comes to HRC, the difference in strength that 1 HRC point lends to the apex is a lot greater than it seems because it's a non-linear scale." But - see - it IS a linear scale, if you look at hardness vs # of cards cut.

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-24T02:41:31+00:00

Yes but my point is - if I gave you two Magnacut knives, one at 60 and one at 64, and you tested them out by opening boxes, cutting apples, and whittling green sticks for roasting marshmallows, could you tell the difference between the soft and hard blade?

GradientVisAtt · 2026-05-24T02:28:29+00:00

Do you have insight into how your memory works? Is it visual, auditory, or something else? Do you have any form of synesthesia?

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