Quincey a écrit:Mais le LC200N je connais pas
Un acier qu'il est mieux que le H1 mais pas top :
sal a écrit:Cronidur 30 was the original German invention circa 1999. It was the original Nitrogen steel. They said (back then) that they couldn't sell it to us for 2 reasons; 1) Spyderco was an international company and they were afraid that we might send it to a non patent friendly country that would cheat on their patent. 2) They were selling all they could make to Nasa at the time.
While we was disappointed, we kept searching for a "salt water friendly" steel. Then a few years later, we were introduced to H1, which worked well. When Crucible broke up, Harry, their President set up another steel company. He knew I wanted Cronidur 30 so he chased it down for me. (He's one of the few with a CPM S125 Military). But he said we couldn't call it Cronidur because it was a trademarked name. Alpha distributes the steel to custom makers. They didn't like the name LC200N (the factories name for "Low Corrosion"), so they call it Z-FiNit.
It's fairly new to the knife industry so there isn't much history at this time. It has good edge retention in plain edge. Better than H1, but not as good as VG-1-0, by our lab testing. We're still watching everyone's testing as well. The more, the better. I don't think it's as tough as H1.
The Caribbean is now shipping and it is a higher volume model so we can get more feedback.
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