Ionfusion Bucks - What happened?

Cliff Stamp said:
If the edge is deforming as it is too acute, then that isn't a problem inherent with the coating, just change the angle on the blade. The initial edge retention results were off the scale on CATRA and even in the hand testing the blades were improved by 6-8 times. It would seem to me that they could also be improved by using a strong steel which is low carbide, run AEBL at 65 HRC, that should solve the denting problems.

-Cliff
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Which is also true ;)
My older ones before the edge 2000, do not have the acute angle on the cutting edge, and do not deform as easily. (But then again a knife really isnt meant to chop or cut through bone) My ionfusions work excellent if used as a knife should be! As far as using premium steel, I suppose between the ionfusion process and the cost of the premium steel, the knives would be less popular.
 
AEB-L is a very inexpensive steel, it has less alloy than 440A. In general, there is a lot of variation among bone, cutting through moose bone with a small folder is one thing, but small bird bones the knife should be able to handle. The problem could be due to the chisel edge itself as Jeff Clark proposed.

-Cliff
 
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