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Its a start, Once Coldsteel/Benchmade/Spyderco see what Miltner-Adams is doing they will have to join in or risk losing customers who want the latest material in knives.
Same kind of thing happened with titanium knives, used to be rare and expensive but now all the major knife makers sell them because some consumers demand it.
I can't wait for knife magazine and websites start to publishing reviews of the Hybrid and what its made from, great publicity for lqmt.
I would click on 'like' but i don't have a Facebook account.
Its starting :)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.796305613751048.1073741825.183747115006904&type=1
The Hybrid Knife™ "Best of Both Worlds"
By Miltner Adams Company · Updated on Friday
The Hybrid Knife™ is the "Best of Both Worlds" - it combines the advantages of a fixed blade and a folder in one knife.
The Hybrid Knife™ is a pocket knife and is designed for first responders, active outdoors recreation, and daily carry.
The Hybrid Knife™ out-performs any other tactical knife on the market, and here's why:
1. Solid like a fixed blade.
2. Convenient to carry like a folder.
3. Practical for daily use.
4. Easy to sharpen - Our HollowFlat™ Blade design makes it easy to sharpen anywhere - no sharpening guides needed, just use a simple field sharpener for a perfect sharp edge every time.
5. Safe TopGrip™ design - No-slip.
6. Hands-Free Action - this means you have the Hybrid Knife™ secure in your hand and ready to use, while still having both hands free for other tasks, eliminating the need to drop or set the knife down, or having to putting it away.
The Hybrid Knife™ is the first of our designs to be produced in Liquidmetal®.
Liquidmetal is more than 2x stronger than titanium, 100% stainless, and it can be molded into a very complex form that otherwise would be almost impossible to machine, making it possible to produce a high quality product for a fair price to the consumer.
When was the last time Miltner-Adams had a NEW knife available on their website ...... 2007 !!!
Too add to that, Steipp said $20 million is break even, so just only 3.9% of your sales figure is needed to get that $20 million.
Next maybe some molded carabiner clips for the hikers and rock climbers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabiner
The outdoor market is huge, a nice surprising twist in lqmt's direction to find distribution channels, reflects well on the BOD efforts to commercialise lqmt.
What happens when lqmt makes a commercially successful knife that promotes lqmt to a whole new market sector ....... it will be a slap in the face to Kang's VMatter knives and 10 year head start. Makes me happy that lqmt sold off its old inefficient molding units to Kang.
If MA's LM knife sells well, other knife manufactures will be FORCED to also have at least 1 LM knife available for their customers.
The knife industry is very competitive, lots of weekend warriors, prepares, zombie apocalypse and novices to cater for, when they see and hear about LM knives they will also want a LM knife, even if its just 10%, it will be an amazing success for LM, and us :)
Things to keep in mind when trying to compare the LM knife with other Knives,
LM will NOT rust, similar Spyderco knives that will not rust cost...
http://www.spyderco.com/catalog/list.php?blade=H-1
(notice how the full tang daggers cost more than the plastic folders.
The MA knife is NOT a folder it is a dagger with a full tang,
Some similar priced daggers that cost from $240-$270.
http://www2.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_store.html?brand=&min_price=240&max_price=270&country=&sortType=defaultDe&a=fixed
Folders from $240-$270.
http://www2.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_store.html?brand=&min_price=240&max_price=270&country=&sortType=defaultDe&a=folder
Titanium knives costs more than cheap plastic Gerber junk.
http://www2.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_store.html?usrsearch=titanium%20&&sortType=priceDe&
The better the stainless/rust resistant steel, the more expensive it is, LM covers that.
Titanium costs more, LM has that covered.
The stronger the lock mechanism the more expensive it is, the LM knife is a full tang fixed blade.
So stop comparing apples to oranges.
Also consider that Miltner-Adams does have a good reputation for making quality knives that are respected by armed forces, that is priceless.
500 ? thats about 10 per state, its possible, especially if the concept of both the hybrid design and molded knives takes hold with enthusiasts and or the military.
What happens if molded knives become popular? Maybe other knife makers will also have at least 1 lqmt designed knife to satisfy consumers.
This 'simple' knife deal may give lqmt more exposure than Apple would, at least in the short term.
Thanks for posting.
I wonder if the thumb lever (with the "A" on-top of the "M") somehow unlocks the blade guard.
It looks small, like a neck knife, and priced similar too, maybe a full sized version will come out once Miltner-Adams see how well the lqmt knives are accepted.
In one embodiment, the final parts exceeded the critical casting thickness of the bulk solidifying amorphous alloys.
Electronic Devices
The embodiments herein can be valuable in the fabrication of electronic devices using a BMG. An electronic device herein can refer to any electronic device known in the art. For example, it can be a telephone, such as a cell phone, and a land-line phone, or any communication device, such as a smart phone, including, for example an iPhone™, and an electronic email sending/receiving device. It can be a part of a display, such as a digital display, a TV monitor, an electronic-book reader, a portable web-browser (e.g., iPad™), and a computer monitor. It can also be an entertainment device, including a portable DVD player, conventional DVD player, Blue-Ray disk player, video game console, music player, such as a portable music player (e.g., iPod™), etc. It can also be a part of a device that provides control, such as controlling the streaming of images, videos, sounds (e.g., Apple TV™), or it can be a remote control for an electronic device. It can be a part of a computer or its accessories, such as the hard drive tower housing or casing, laptop housing, laptop keyboard, laptop track pad, desktop keyboard, mouse, and speaker. The article can also be applied to a device such as a watch or a clock.
The gold and platinum BMG look interesting, Al is also used in several other BMG alloys.
12 Au Ag Pd Cu Si
49.00% 5.50% 2.30% 26.90% 16.30%
13 Au Ag Pd Cu Si
50.90% 3.00% 2.30% 27.80% 16.00%
14 Pt Cu Ni P
57.50% 14.70% 5.30% 22.50%
This is a good read about the Apple car project. Much further along than has been previously reported just few weeks back.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/03/13/project-titan-sixtyeight-sg5-inside-apples-top-secret-electric-car-project
Cause Apple is screwing lqmt?
And if CIP held the patents then others on this board will claim CIP belongs to Apple, so either way lqmt is screwed.
Very little difference from lqmt's patents of stoping crystallisation,
compared to Apple's patent for restricting crystallisation.
Is Apple doing everything possible to steal away the lqmt process?
Calling it crystallisation when they actually control temperature to stop crystals growing, isn't that what lqmt does, stoping the molecules from crystallising making them more evenly spread out and thus stronger. Variations in temperature can cause age hardening, lqmt process is partly based on temperature variation.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2015/03/apples-invention-regarding-the-creation-of-new-gold-alloys-for-the-apple-watch-edition-emerges.html
Today the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple titled "Crystalline Gold Alloys with Improved Hardness," that reveals the technology behind the process that creates the yellow and rose gold found in Apple's higher-end Apple Watch line called the "Watch Edition."
Apple further notes that without wishing to be held to any theory or mechanism of action, by controlling the temperature of recrystallization heat treatment to be at or close to the lowest temperature at which the a homogenous structure can be formed for a particular alloy, the alloy can be recrystallized by forming equiaxed grains having an average length of less than 40 microns or less than 30 microns. The resulting alloy has improved resistance to cracking than alloys with larger grains.
LM can be heat formed,
hmmmm an Engel mold press?
Engel already makes mold press machines for carbon fiber car panels......even though rigid carbon fiber would crack if molded just like the glass metal.
Yes lots of different formulas for bmg alloy.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=111575035
It seems investors have voted with their trades,
AAPL nose dived after Apple released price of the watch,
LQMT stayed up for the day, but still down for the month,
so where was the pump?
no dump ..... yet,
it will take analysts and tech bloggers a few days to report all the news announced yesterday before they start to take a closer look at the lqmt connection.
beryllium free.
12" mackbook contoured internals.
"jet cooled" in molds.
Before Apple compresses the gold they state that they melt it and cast it in a "hardening process"
no further information on what that "hardening process" is before they compress it.
Apple does state that the gold is mixed with silver, copper and palladium , palladium group of metals is associated with lqmt's original LM formula.
no ceramic or boride is used, as suggested with the light-weight gold ceramic matrix patent.
The aluminum alloy is "jet cooled" in molds, seems Apple is using CIP to make amorphous alloys before further processing them, mixing new technology with old technology.
Read the reply from Matt Martin, especially the last paragraph.
http://info.liquidmetal.com/blog/bid/399485/Liquidmetal-Technologies-Design-Guide-2-0-Now-Available
This is one reason why Liquidmetal alloys are pretty nifty; the recipes have been painstakingly tuned to intentionally 'confuse' the crystallization process so that the material maintains its liquid-like disorder. However, there are a host of amorphous metal alloys that have been discovered in recent years, and some of these alloys do contain large percentages of precious metals! Metallic glass alloys based on Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Palladium have all been designed, and some have quite remarkable properties in terms of strength, hardness, and ductility. In other words, it is only these amorphous precious metal alloys that could be used to produce the kinds of articles that you describe.
New Apple Watch films,
http://www.apple.com/watch/films/
For the aluminum, magnesium and zinc are added, then jet cooled in molds, (said "jet freezed" in the live cast)
The 18 kt gold is hardened with silver copper and palladium, no ceramic or boride etc.
It is poured into molds for a "hardening process" then milled, then compressed.
The steel is cold forged,
Seems like Apple has a different manufacturing process for each alloy, but the aluminum and maybe gold where hardened by jet cooling/freezing.
Yes its a good day today, i can't wait for tech bloggers to take a close look at the contoured inside of the new 12" macbook.
Where was the pump?
lqmt is down from the start of the month leading up to this Apple event.
They showed it in the aluminum watch video while Ive mentioned the manufacturing process.
Apple just uses lqmt patents and calls the metal anything they want.
lolz, Apple just announced they "jet freeze aluminum in molds"
Any metal can be a 'liquidmetal' if its can be quick chilled to keep its molecules random.
and lqmt has those patents :)
No video or info on how the 18ky solid gold is made.
The stainless steel is cold forged, tempered to make it stronger.
Not jet freezed in molds like the aluminum watch.
The aluminum watch is jet freezed in molds !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is not CNC milled :)
https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/gold-macbook-internals.png
and look at how contoured the inside is :)
Hublot has a gold alloy that is harder than tempered steel;
http://hublot.watchprosite.com/show-forumpost/fi-871/pi-5034408/ti-759858/t-/
To produce this fusion so requires temperature and pressure that would have been cause for concern for even Prometheus himself. At 2200 degrees and under intense pressure gold and ceramic (normally not the two materials you would expect to be fused together) are forced into a single metal.
The alloy is created by pouring gold into a baked boron carbide crystal lattice, which forms the super-hard alloy. It comes out of the moulds black - but then polishes up to a shine
Ive explains how the molecules in Apple gold are closer together, making it twice as hard as standard gold. And, in case you were wondering, Apple’s cold-forged steel is 40 per cent more durable than regular steel.
.....It's been rumored that Apple was able to achieve these metal strengths by using a liquid metal process that they've been working on for years.....
A special form of sintering, still considered part of powder metallurgy, is liquid-state sintering. In liquid-state sintering, at least one but not all elements are in a liquid state. Liquid-state sintering is required for making cemented carbide or tungsten carbide.
Ive did not say its not a CE, he said its a move away from what is traditionally understood as a CE.
“I do see that the Watch is a move away from what is traditionally understood as consumer electronics,” Sir Jonathan Ive said at a conference last year.
“I do see that the Watch is a move away from what is traditionally understood as consumer electronics,” Sir Jonathan Ive said at a conference last year.
you are what you eat
:)
Maybe, he mentioned that to get the $12-15 revenue they would need to run at full capacity, 3 Engel machines and 2 shifts, plus BMG costs, thats make a $4-7 net revenue ??
webcast time around 19 minutes start.
However, based on an analysis of parts that we have evaluated and are under consideration, we anticipate that revenue levels of $12 million to $15 million, which are achievable within the envelope of our current facility and workforce, would support a spending level of approximately $8 million.