The “Ask Casinostocks a question” thread

Thank you Nathan and many thanks to you all. I feel both very honored and humbled by the outpouring of the well-wishing messages both on this thread and also privately.

Nathan, you and Jo not only make the best darn fixed blade knives for the buck, but more importantly you both are really and genuinely great people and thus your subforum has morphed into something in your own image and spirit of goodness. I actually still read EVERY single post on CPK subforum religiously as it is now a force of habit, a very healthy habit which brings smile to my face even during hard times :)

I am fine guys and gals, and I will be back again at some point for our usual-usual. It's just that my earthly Family needs me more now.
 
fonedork said:
Have you ever gone to a strip club in New Orleans where it turned out they were all dudes?
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I’m no Casino, but I did go to one during a drunken road trip to Ensenada Mexico when I was stationed in El Toro California. It was quite a surprise!:D
 
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fonedork said:
Have you ever gone to a strip club in New Orleans where it turned out they were all dudes?
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I believe that there's one right here in San Diego county (could be a burlesque style drag-queen type bar) in the Hillcrest area which is very LGBTQ (VERY, VERY!) I've been told that some of the "ladies" over there can be quite strong; some can probably pick you up by the scruff of your neck and then hoist you onto the stage but as stated, I've merely been told :D
 
The secondary hardening hump is seen in many complex steels where the hardness plateaus and then rises with tempering temperature where you may see a higher hardness at 950 F than you see at 850F for example. The cause is two fold: one is the conversion of soft retained austenite into martensite (the hard structure of steel) and the other is the precipitation of secondary carbides which can increase the hardness of the structure through dislocations and also increase the measured hardness simply by reducing the depth of the dent from the diamond during the test. This is all well and good if you're a commercial heat treater simply trying to hit a particular hardness number on a tool without messing it up and can be necessary on tools subjected to certain coating and processes that exceed a lower temperature temper.

It's a bad idea on knives.

There are other ways to address retained austenite that are better for a knife application and tempers above a certain point allow the matrix to relax around any eta carbides formed from cryo, negating their pinning effect.

So when the dude a chump pump points a finger like a stump
Tell him "step off, I'm doin' the Hump"
 
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