Dendritic Cobalt
Advanced Metallurgy for the Saltwater Environment
- Extreme cutting and edge holding
- Total resistance to saltwater corrosion
- Fast sharpening on an ordinary whetstone
- Compass safe
Boye Dendritic Cobalt is a super-performing, non-rusting cobalt-based alloy that excels on tough fibers such as hi-tech rigging line, deck line, and net. Not a steel, it is a mixture of cobalt, chrome, nickel, tungsten, silicon, iron, and carbon. It cuts aggressively and keeps cutting. It is completely impervious to seawater corrosion, and is non-magnetizeable.
Each Boye blade is permeated by a dense, branching, "dendritic" network of hard carbide crystals (see photo at right). At the cutting edge, these carbide crystals produce micro-serrations, which can be felt with the fingertip and heard when the knife slices through rope. The crystals help the edge keep its shape and integrity over time (i.e. exceptional edge-holding) and enhance its penetrating power, for deep cutting action.
Each sharpening exposes a fresh set of hard carbide micro-teeth.
No comments:
Post a Comment