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Knife steels

What each steel is for, how to heat treat it, what sizes it comes in, and what a blade's worth of it costs. Carbon steels for the forge; tool and stainless steels for the grinder and the kiln.

carbon steels

1084Hunters, camp knives, seaxes, kitchen knives, anything forged1095Stock-removal knives where you have a fast quenchant80CrV2Camp knives, bowies, kukris, choppers5160Bowies, kukris, camp choppers, swords, tomahawks52100Kitchen knives, hunters, bowies — any knife where edge retention and fine edge stability matter and the maker can control heatW2Hamon blades — tantos, kitchen knives, hunters, seaxes — and anything where a differentially hardened spine is wanted15N20Pattern-welded damascus (with 1084)

tool steels

O1Stock-removal hunters, EDC and kitchen knives, woodworking toolsA2Camp and field knives, big stock-removal blades, woodworking and shop tools

stainless steels

CPM-154EDC fixed blades, hunters, kitchen knivesAEB-LKitchen knives, fillet knives, paring knives, straight razorsMagnaCutPremium EDC and outdoor knives, kitchen knives for customers who will not oil a blade, fillet knives

Free: the one-page stock size chart

Bar sizes for ten common knife patterns, weight per inch for every standard flat bar, and quick heat-treat numbers for the usual carbon steels. Print it, tape it to the grinder.

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