Bossie 308 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 My original FBBC order was recieved in Feb 08.I killed the Bastard Big Bastard and was within a 1/8 of killing the Huge when i ran out of stock.Got my new stock and planned on killing the Huge today. NOT !!!! Barely got a noticable kink !!! Does anyone know what the difference in cal is on these?Old stock was real shiny new stuff is kinda dark and spotty.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim71 Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 No experience with that recent a stuff but in times past the shinier bastards have all been easier and when John gets the dark stuff in it's always really rough. My stuff I've sent Eric has yielded 3 calibrations. First was the "easy" shiny bastards that hit 385, then was the dark stuff that hit 450 then some "medium" shiny ones that hit 420. Hope this helps! Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossie 308 Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 No experience with that recent a stuff but in times past the shinier bastards have all been easier and when John gets the dark stuff in it's always really rough. My stuff I've sent Eric has yielded 3 calibrations. First was the "easy" shiny bastards that hit 385, then was the dark stuff that hit 450 then some "medium" shiny ones that hit 420. Hope this helps! Tim It does help Tim thanks!! You got any shiny stock you wanna sell? Im so frustrated feel like i just went backwards 2 months !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GatorGrip Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 I have felt your pain brother back when I was bending regularly and was in pursuit of killing off the Insane Bastards with a clear crisp cert video. I ran out of the Insanes I was bending and ordered another batch to get a better video done and they come in crazy hard. Even though John Beatty tries hard to keep everything on an equal playing field we all know that steel yield strength varies and that is the luck of the draw BUT....... On the brighter side my friend once you can bend those then you will be stronger for the next batch for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alawadhi Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 No problem then. If you bend this huge bastard then you know you are much stronger than before (isn't this our goal in the first place ) and you will bend a shiny. I have a bastard than is harder than a hex or at it's same level. Not the new insane HARD hex though. The normal ones at 485 pounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthcarl Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Are the new ones dark and kind of rusty/spotted? If so that sounds like my batch. Eric calibrated a couple at 430 lbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Beatty Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 That CRS is like the older tough stuff, not that one batch that was crazy hard, but way harder than the shiny stuff. It's unfortunately luck of the draw, I get what my supplier gets. I like the shiny stuff better, that dark stuff always comed with a heavy coating of thick grease & takes a lot more cleanup time before I cut a lot of the time despite the thick grease, it has rust, to which I try to do quick polish with steel wool. The shiny has a thin layer of oil & cleans up quickly. I like to train with the hard stuff, as that makes more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightweight Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I just got mine and these are definitly harder than the im red that I tried. This was my first try with a bastard and it was very humbling, just got a small kink. Have to work with the square to get my strength up I guess. When I finally do get it I'll at least know it was a worthy bastard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossie 308 Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 I just got mine and these are definitly harder than the im red that I tried. This was my first try with a bastard and it was very humbling, just got a small kink. Have to work with the square to get my strength up I guess. When I finally do get it I'll at least know it was a worthy bastard. Yea im gonna send some out to get cald.I can almost get a 5 inch square and couldnt finish a Bastard with this stock.With the old stock i killed a bastard with only 2 weeks of training !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightweight Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 You'll have to bump this thread if you do get some cal'd. I'm interested in seeing what these are rated at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossie 308 Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 You'll have to bump this thread if you do get some cal'd. I'm interested in seeing what these are rated at. I bent a 7 inch today and it was as hard if not harder than the Huge with the old stock.I sent out some new and old stock to be cald today so we will find out soon Thanks Eric !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim71 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 No experience with that recent a stuff but in times past the shinier bastards have all been easier and when John gets the dark stuff in it's always really rough. My stuff I've sent Eric has yielded 3 calibrations. First was the "easy" shiny bastards that hit 385, then was the dark stuff that hit 450 then some "medium" shiny ones that hit 420. Hope this helps! Tim It does help Tim thanks!! You got any shiny stock you wanna sell? Im so frustrated feel like i just went backwards 2 months !!! Ha ha afraid not. I didn't have much of it. As a matter of fact I think my order was where John had to switch and put a couple of the new #450 dark ones. I really like the last shiny ones since they look really good and shiny but are a good solid 420. Noticably harder than the first "easy" shiny ones. Some of the dark stuff has a crazy hard crush too. I've got some CRS from a steel supplier that is crazy hard and it's suppose to just be 1018. Go figure. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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