Our boys have hit the big time! Congrats to [u/Skylark427](u/Skylark427) and [u/679696](u/679696): Metal Complex released a nearly 40 minute video going over their knife steel hardness testing project and website. I’m apparently not allowed to link to YouTube content, so if you want to see Metal Complex’s video, check out the video he released at 10 am ET (“Every Single Person…”).
The significance of this can’t be understated. Whether you like Metal Complex or not isn’t relative to the potential impact. MC has a huge audience and a lot of pull within the knife community. Having him behind this project will only help enlighten the buying public by increasing awareness and knowledge, get more testing results done with increased collaboration, and hopefully make knife companies more accountable.
I should also emphasize that this should matter to you even if hardness testing and HRC are not personally that important to you. I’m mainly an enthusiast/collector and casual user. But it still helps the entire community if we can hold knife companies to a high standard of quality, which includes HRC ranges (and a good overall heat treat, fit/finish, qc, cs, etc.). The more we can empirically test their products and hold them accountable, the better their products will be.
Check their website, their posts/comments, and support their work if you can by sending them knives to test.
by Greek_Heat
