Originally Posted by
ThermionicScott
I wonder if they decided that the 170mm length merited the investment in cold-forging, and almost no one would notice if they chose casting for the other lengths...
I don't think that's true, because both of my 180 mm sets have all the indications of being cold-forged.
I remember being disappointed when the cheaper-looking ones came out, a few years after the originals. I can't prove the cheaper-looking ones are "melt-forged" (cast) but they look that way to me. Even if the later one are just as good functionally (I don't know), they don't appeal to me visually. But then again, the older ones, the kind I like, are the ones that cracked... I don't know if the later ones had that problem, wouldn't have seen it personally since I never used those. Anyone seen instances of cracking in the later, cheaper-looking ones? Maybe the changes they made were specifically to address the known cracking problem, and those are the ones we should be seeking out!
Mark B