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   <title>MM Hybrid Cryo steel added to the knife steel database.</title>
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   <updated>2026-05-27T19:31:07+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;/knives/steels/mm_hybrid_cryo.shtml&quot;&gt;MM Hybrid Cryo steel composition&lt;/a&gt; and notes in the database. New addition to the dedicated knife steels growing collection. Collaboration between between Midgards Messer and Bohler Austria around 2024.&lt;/p&gt;</div></content>
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   <title>Alleima 10C28Mo2 steel added to the knife steel database.</title>
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   <id>http://zvis.com/blog/index.shtml#1301</id>
   <updated>2026-05-26T15:14:33+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;/knives/steels/10C28Mo2.shtml&quot;&gt;Alleima 10C28Mo2 steel composition&lt;/a&gt; and notes in the detabase. Designed for razor blades and kitchen knives, &lt;a href=&quot;/knives/steels/10C28Mo2.shtml&quot;&gt;Alleima 10C28Mo2 steel&lt;/a&gt; features fine, evenly distributed carbides and high corrosion resistance at respectable 60HRC.&lt;/p&gt;</div></content>
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   <title>Alleima 10C16Mo3V1 steel added to the knife steel database.</title>
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   <updated>2026-05-25T19:52:20+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;/knives/steels/10C16Mo3V1.shtml&quot;&gt;Alleima 10C16Mo3V1 steel&lt;/a&gt; details in the detabase. One more member of the &lt;a href=&quot;/knives/steels/a8mod.shtml&quot;&gt;AISI A8Mod steel&lt;/a&gt; family, this one from Sweden.&lt;/p&gt;</div></content>
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   <title>Takefu VG Xeos steel added to the knife steel database.</title>
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   <updated>2026-05-24T19:25:32+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&lt;p&gt;One more variation on the <a href="/knives/steels/vg-xeos.shtml">VG-10 steel</a>. See <a href="/knives/steels/vg-xeos.shtml">VG Xeos steel</a> details in the detabase.&lt;/p&gt;</div></content>
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   <title>Wolfram Special and Sheffcut steels added to the knife steel database.</title>
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   <updated>2025-11-10T19:50:24+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Two new steels added to the knife steel database. Both from England, Sheffield. <a href="/knives/steels/wolfram_special.shtml">Wolfram Special</a> and <a href="/knives/steels/sheffcut.shtml">Sheffcut</a>. High performance, low alloy steels, follow the links for details.</div></content>
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   <title>Added 20 new ally names.</title>
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   <updated>2025-10-12T22:53:54+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Added 20 new ally names for the Italian steelmake - Bonomi Acciai. Thanks Gianluigi for reaching out and providing the data!</div></content>
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   <title>Fixed several steel composition errors</title>
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   <id>http://zvis.com/blog/index.shtml#1293</id>
   <updated>2024-10-19T04:05:10+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Thanks AI :) With AI's help, created about 30 new database integrity tests. That helped to identify over half a dozen errors in steel compositions. Going forward, we should be good, thanks to those new scripts.</div></content>
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   <title>M390MK steel record added to the knife streel database</title>
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   <updated>2024-05-26T18:37:52+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Relatively new entry in the steel database, Microtech announced that circa 01/2023. Described as a tweak on the original <a href="https://zknives.com/knives/steels/m390.shtml">Bohler-Uddeholm M390 PM steel</a>, it has no official composition published, but based on the data, no real reason to thin k it has something outside of the <a href="https://zknives.com/knives/steels/m390.shtml">M390 steel</a> specs.</p></div></content>
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   <title>All Spyderco parts received</title>
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   <updated>2020-09-27T20:15:09+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Decided that I wanted Spyderco Manix 2 folder in <a href="/knives/steels/maxamet.shtml">Maxamet steel</a>. The steel itself is rather on the exotic side, so naturally, I am interested, and Manix 2 looks good enough to my taste. However, <a href="/knives/steels/maxamet.shtml">Maxamet steel</a> Manix 2 have FRN handles which are not replaceable, and the only Manix 2 I&#39;ve found where I could replace handle slabs was Manix 2 in <a href="/knives/steels/cpm_s30v.shtml">CPM S30V steel</a>. So, all in all, I had to order Manix 2 in <a href="/knives/steels/maxamet.shtml">Maxamet steel</a>, Manix 2 in <a href="/knives/steels/cpm_s30v.shtml">CPM S30V steel</a>, Flytanium handle slabs and Flytanium Brass Ball Cage Lock. Later two were delayed due to damn pandemic we have going on, and total waiting time to get all things together was over 3 months. Now all I have to do is swap the blades, try to to ruin FRN handle, of which I have very little chance and install new handle slabs and ball cage lock and I&#39;ll have Manix 2 with Ti handles, <a href="/knives/steels/maxamet.shtml">Maxamet steel</a> and bronze cage lock :) Already asked around about rehardening, but nobody wants to reharden Spyderco blades due to the risks associated with the hole.</p></div></content>
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   <title>Site migration completed</title>
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   <updated>2019-06-07T22:22:38+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A very long task of migrating sites to the new hosts, all the code to PHP 7.3 is finally completed! Please do let me know if you find any issues.</p></div></content>
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