Hi All,
My apologies for English post, I do not speak French, and I don't know anyone around who can do translation.
I'm developing/maintaining the knife steel composition chart here - http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelchart.php , with the help of other knife guys of course, lots of data came from them. I think some of you might've used it already.
I came here, because I'm looking for help with French standard steel names and also trying to find French steel manufacturers to look up more steels.
1) AFNOR names are not always available on foreign(non French) websites listing steel data and often they are inconsistent. E.g. I've seen Z130WKCDV-10-10-04-04-03 and 10-10-04-04-03 listed as the name of the same steel on different sites. Are they really the same? Is later wrong?
To view the steel chart in AFNOR naming, click the search button and then select AFNOR in Name Column. If the chart has AFNOR name(s) for the alloy it(they) will be displayed first, and then in () the name of composition, if there is no AFNOR name - is displayed followed by composition name.
If you guys can please help with missing French names and with correction of the invalid ones if I have those.
Any sources with steel naming crossreferences will be also highly appreciated.
2) I found only one French steel maker website so far in my research - Erasteel. They do produce lots of high speed and other exotic steels. Also I have data for Bonpertuis cutlery alloys and one alloy from Aubert & Duval, but no websites for later two. If there are any other significant manufacturers of knife and tool steels, even if their sites are in French I'd appreciate links. it's easier to translate/study steel tables than to search for websites with translated terms which often come out really wrong, since the terminology is knife specific and translators have no idea about that.
Any help is highly appreciated.
P.S. If I posted in wrong forum, mods, please move to the right place.