Contact Knife Steel Composition Chart Support

This is really the only game in town. A well written, easy to navigate app with useful and appropriate commentary. Pulls the so many many hundreds of current and recent steels into some order, so you can begin to understand what makes a good steel (why is lowly ol’ 420HC the chemical basis of many 21st century super steels? How about 1095 and D2, why are they still around? Read on). Not perfect, and necessarily incomplete. We wish Zvi would issue a true 2.0, we’d gladly pay for that!

So, when buying knives, many throw the steel types of the knives they are selling around as if they know what they are talking about. NOT! I pull up the app, never saying a word about such a comprehensive app I am reviewing and figure out wether I buy or walk. Most times, I am walking away. I also, in my own way, determine a price I am willing to pay for a knife post the app review. Sometimes, depending on the seller I may engage him with some verbal knife fighting, and get my price. Looking for updates to keep me looped in. Thank you kindly. Retired FLEO, Chicago, IL.

This is extremely useful so that you know the composition of the steel you are getting. I never believe the hype, unless it matches the facts, in which case it changes from hype to facts. “High carbon” becomes high carbon when the composition findings confirm that. Never buy a knife without knowing what it is really made of. It’s too bad razor blade makers don’t tell what steel they use, much less it’s composition. So far, I have found just one that does that.