Nope, am talking about how powdered metal

by former hater of plastic, Sunday, June 24, 2018, 20:11 (2281 days ago) @ bj

generally chips or breaks when flexed, whether in what is hoped is an elastic spring manner, or worst case, a hoped deformed ductile manner....generally it does neither and chips/breaks.

This is why there are very few, if any, powdered metal springs or hammers. And a knife often called upon to take those manner of loads, whether prying or chopping or batoning.

This is with current technology as applied to knife making today, in any case.

The stuff is great for large machine shears and cutters set up for a constant known material, where alloy can be tailor selected for use, whether paper or metal.

But, just because it is new, does not make it better, and just because a steel maker, does not make one understand knives. Folk today are addicted to flavor of month, and have adopted homemade lab techniques for proclaiming superiority, when their tests and lab tests and knife manufacturers pushing flavor of month steel tests, bear no resemblance to the real world, unless an office or warehouse worker.

Even then, when that great cardboard cutter hits a staple, it often is a very bad thing. Micro chip has entered common vocabulary, thanks to PM, and a read of a Spyderco forum on fans trials and tribuoations with latest and greatest is illuminating.