These included steels like S60V, Elmax, and M390. Orange dots are PM non-stainless, blue dots are PMstainlessĮarly powder metallurgy stainless steels used high chromium content (17-20%) for corrosion resistance in combination with vanadium for wear resistance.
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However, spending all this time on writing about different knife steels eventually led to a series of epiphanies about possibilities in steel design that have not yet been explored. I had considered attempting to come up with my own unique steel compositions, but just wanting to do so doesn’t mean that you have something unique to offer.
It’s sort of like the difference between offering commentary on a football game and actually playing in one. However, this doesn’t necessarily qualify one to design a new steel. As part of this I write articles about the history of different steels including how they were developed and what gives them their properties in terms of composition and processing. It is a fun job but because of my original passion for knife steels I began writing for this website and doing research on the properties of various steels. I was hooked.Īfter ~10 years and 2 kids later I was working at United States Steel developing automotive sheet steels. I talked to Crucible metallurgists at every knife show I attended and even called them up frequently with many questions and they always did their best to answer. S30V was touted as a steel developed specifically for knives, and I was curious about what that meant exactly what properties were they trying to balance for a knife steel as opposed to tool and die, or high speed steel, injection molding steel, etc.
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Not necessarily as something I would do myself, but development of new products, knowledge of the metallurgy required to do so, the trial and error necessary to find an optimal balance, etc. As I began to be interested in knives and steel in my teens the idea of developing a new steel was very interesting to me. S30V was developed by Crucible and released at the end of 2001. Thanks to Saptak Dutta, Bill Clancy, Cap Hayes, Electro_Static, Coll Gomila, Kody Ekstrom, Nico, Tom Ewing, Ken Johnson, Brent Stark, Jesse Warren, Malachi Chou-Green, Luke Haag, Bill Harrison, John Geelhoed, and Julian Hamilton for becoming Knife Steel Nerds Patreon supporters!
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