Stainless Steel Knives

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Stainless Steel Knives

Postby Lumpy on Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:03 pm

The knives I own are folding pocket knives that all say they are stainless steel (even my official Swiss). Any opinions on stainless vs. carbon steel? I don't care about tacticool so much as keeping a good sharp edge- my criteria is being able to easily shave fuzz sticks for camping tinder.
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Re: Stainless Steel Knives

Postby MaryB on Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:31 pm

In my experience stainless does not hold an edge as well, and is harder to use a steel on and touch up an edge.
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Stainless Steel Knives

Postby PhilaBOR on Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:26 pm

Which stainless steel are you talking about? 303? 440C? 17-7? S30V?
There are corrosion resistant steels that hold a great edge. There are also stainless steels that get dull cutting warm butter. I have a Spyderco with S30V that I can get razor sharp and takes a lot of abuse.
Google knife steel and spend an hour reading.
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Re: Stainless Steel Knives

Postby Lumpy on Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:56 am

This just in: Blade lights. That is, a knife that has a forward-facing LED light built into the hilt.
Inquiring minds want to know: :?: :?
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Re: Stainless Steel Knives

Postby Ghost on Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:54 pm

PhilaBOR wrote:Which stainless steel are you talking about? 303? 440C? 17-7? S30V?
There are corrosion resistant steels that hold a great edge. There are also stainless steels that get dull cutting warm butter. I have a Spyderco with S30V that I can get razor sharp and takes a lot of abuse.
Google knife steel and spend an hour reading.

I run Benchmades with the S30V it's definitely a good blade to get.
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Re: Stainless Steel Knives

Postby hopkins on Thu Sep 10, 2015 8:33 pm

Stainless steel is a rather generic term for steel with other metals added to increase its resistance to rusting and other forms of corrosion. To try to define the edge holding ability of "stainless steel" is like trying to define the taste of beer. Sorry if this is unsatisfactory, but facts is facts.
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Re: Stainless Steel Knives

Postby andrewP on Fri Sep 18, 2015 8:26 am

PhilaBOR wrote:Google knife steel and spend an hour reading.


An hour? That's if you just want the quick overview! :)
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