and I am surprised I hit the knife steel nerd mark, since I am a networking engineer, and most of my experience is not steel related, so I guess lately I have been spending more time in the knife community channels, and frankly metallurgy I find the most fascinating topic of all the p...
chromium, nickel, molybdenum, etc. is added the steel can be cooled much more slowly, and when enough of those elements are added the steel will harden even when cooling in air. These steels are called “air hardening.”
. This book focuses less on fundamental metallurgy like the two above and more on practical information on specific steels. Because all of the information is scattered across the different steel types, you may never learn everything there is to learn from this massive book. You can focus on t...
S30V was developed by Crucible and released at the end of 2001. 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. Not necessarily as something I would do myself, but development of new products, knowledge of the ...