Newly Patented High Speed Steel Alloys

Materials Engineering general discussion
#21

Erasteel in Sweden purchased all of Crucible’s intellectual property, and they left the machinery and equipment sitting on the property in Syracuse. That plant is done. I can’t see anybody in their right mind wanting to buy what is left and putting it back to work. Like Bruce Springsteen said, “These jobs are going boys, and they ain’t coming back to your hometown”.

I hope that I get a royalty deal too, but that isn’t going to happen without a lot more work on my part to get these steel grades produced and used in the marketplace. Unless you have customers knocking on the steel manufacturer’s doors asking them to produce these grades, the steel producers will have zero interest in them.

I do like the idea of a bank account in the Cayman Islands. :wink:

#22

Nice! Over 1.5X!

#23

Congratulations!

I would say incorporating “adamant” or “adamantine” would be the classic reference, though likely overdone at this point.

Have you had customers in the past complain about names before - maybe you can name your alloy in a way that alleviates that issue?

#24

Thanks Jari. I’ve never named an alloy before, and have had no experience with any customers objecting to the name of a steel that they purchased. I want this to be a name that a potential customer would likely remember and that leaves a positive impression on them. The name should highlight or at least be consistent with the characteristics that the steel possesses.

#25

I see your point and it looks like btrueblood was on track with that. The only thing that comes to my mind is since Tungsten was originally Wolfram, maybe MoWo/WoMo could work if MoW is off trademark now?

Or maybe the branding for the alloy has a nice wolf watermark lol

#26

A wolf logo? Hmm…I can actually see that appealing to a certain group of customers.

#27

At 70-ish Rc, with decent room temperature toughness…would this make a good knife steel - never mind, dumb question, rephrase: could you sell this as an uber knife steel, capable of cutting through other knives? Lotta knife nuts out there, looking for the latest & greatest blade…and with a wolf logo laser-etched, or pattern welded into the billlet…yeesh, yer gonna be rich, Maui. If you need help spending that loot, call!

#28

Hi Ben, the knife crowd was exactly the group I was thinking of. They would LOVE a wolf logo. And yes, one of the main applications for these grades are industrial knives. So a hunting knife would be an ideal application for practically any of these grades, and their chemical compositions can even be tailored for that specific application. Some of these grades would make for FANTASTIC hand held knives!