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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>Knife Steel Chart Android ver 3.99.5 Is On The market</title>
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   <id>http://zknives.com/blog/index.shtml#1294</id>
   <updated>2025-09-01T22:46:51+00:00</updated>
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<li>Fixes missing or clipped search bar on steel list view.</li>
<li>Fixes missing or clipped toolbar on detail, graph and steel search views.</li>
<li>App compatibility changes.</li>
<li>Target API requirement changes.</li>
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   <title>Fixed several steel composition errors</title>
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   <id>http://zknives.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>Knife Steel Chart Android ver 3.99.2 Is On The market</title>
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   <id>http://zknives.com/blog/index.shtml#1291</id>
   <updated>2023-03-19T17:26:21+00:00</updated>
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<li>Fixes Bookmark export/import for latest Android versions. Bookmarks are exported to the Downloads folder, under its own KnifeSteelChart subfolder;</li>
<li>Latest database snapshot;</li>

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   <title>YTL8 steel composition added</title>
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   <updated>2022-05-15T11:57:40+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Relatively recent steel, YTL8 is produced by EST. Some sort of modification of the popular <a href="/knives/steels/d2.shtml">AISI D2 Tool Steel</a>.</p></div></content>
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   <title>AUS10Co steel composition added</title>
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   <id>http://zknives.com/blog/index.shtml#1289</id>
   <updated>2022-01-29T22:22:35+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>New steel, took some time to find the data, used only by Russian makers, and despite its AUS name it isn&#39;t an Aichi steel, but from a Chinese maker Steel Import Co. Not quite sure about the rest of the claims about it either.</p></div></content>
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   <title>Reate knives CFGR Iron M390 Ti Framelock Folder Review Published</title>
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   <id>http://zknives.com/blog/index.shtml#1288</id>
   <updated>2021-05-09T18:03:58+00:00</updated>
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<img src="http://images.zknives.com/knives/fold/reate/iron/iron-11.jpg" width="90px" height="50px" alt="Reate knives Iron Folder M390 Steel CF Inlays" hspace="5" vspace= "5" align="left" /></a>
<p>Small/Medium folder. Definitely high end and very well made, with premium materials throughout, handle Bead Blasted 6Al4V Titanium Alloy, blade - <a href="/knives/steels/m390.shtml">Bohler-Uddeholm M390 Steel</a>, anodized screws, CF inlays, you name it. Still, it is a one tough little folder, and very capable of cutting. Maintenance is very easy, that is keeping it sharp, not so sure about keeping it scratch free, but it&#39;s a user, not a safe queen.</p></div></content>
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   <title>CPM MagnaCut steel composition published</title>
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   <updated>2021-03-27T22:18:44+00:00</updated>
   <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>One of the rare occasions when a knife steel is actually designed for knives :) And by Larrin from <a href="https://knifesteelnerds.com/">KnifeSteelNerds.com</a> too. Detailed info in the link, but in short very interesting alloy with some amazing properties, designed for knives by true knife enthusiast.
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