1095 vs 15N20, all things being unequal.

jdm61 said:
Erik, have Achim/Lohmann cooked more batches of 115W8? It really is great stuff, but the problem was that the only source was his "fun smelt"
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I don't know. Will check next Gembloux.
I have a bunch of cheap 02 coming anyway.
 
Well, Chuck over at AKS just won my business. I had a bunch of questions and he responded in the blink of an eye. I have been waiting for a reply from Aldo for over a week now. I still plan on getting my sealegs on the new grinder with 1084 but I did also buy the one last bar of 1.5 inch wide 15N20 they had in .120 stock... should make for some very nice EDC or small Kitchen blades :cool:
 
PNWJimbo said:
Well, Chuck over at AKS just won my business. I had a bunch of questions and he responded in the blink of an eye. I have been waiting for a reply from Aldo for over a week now. I still plan on getting my sealegs on the new grinder with 1084 but I did also buy the one last bar of 1.5 inch wide 15N20 they had in .120 stock... should make for some very nice EDC or small Kitchen blades :cool:
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AKS has 80CrV2 that they used to sell as 1080+. It is better steel than 1084 and heat treats easily.
 
PNWJimbo said:
Well, Chuck over at AKS just won my business. I had a bunch of questions and he responded in the blink of an eye. I have been waiting for a reply from Aldo for over a week now. I still plan on getting my sealegs on the new grinder with 1084 but I did also buy the one last bar of 1.5 inch wide 15N20 they had in .120 stock... should make for some very nice EDC or small Kitchen blades :cool:
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I think most people here are happy to deal with both guys. With Aldo, make a phone call. I'm a nobody hobbyist who barely buys any steel but calling NJSB has always been a pleasure. :)
 
scott.livesey said:
AKS has 80CrV2 that they used to sell as 1080+. It is better steel than 1084 and heat treats easily.
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I will have to do more research on this steel for my next order, thanks for the suggestion!

milkbaby said:
I think most people here are happy to deal with both guys. With Aldo, make a phone call. I'm a nobody hobbyist who barely buys any steel but calling NJSB has always been a pleasure. :)
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Yeah I didn't mean to come off so negative haha. I've just been a little frustrated with all of the sites organization of info so it was nice to get a prompt reply yesterday. I've actually read on other threads that Aldo is much more helpful if you just give them a call but as weird as this sounds I just hate calling people/companies. Email/Text communication is my go to... It was kind of nice to get a call from and chat with the guys over at trugrit over an issue with my 2x72 belt order the other day. picked up a few nuggets of wisdom on 10 inch buffers... maybe I will ring aldo next time I am considering steel from that site.
 
Trugrit definitely has good service. They won me for basically all abrasives business after calling me to double check I did intend to order two different sizes of belts when I ordered a couple hundred which were all 2x72 apart from one grit which was in 1x42. It's what I wanted to order, but it shows they care enough about their customers to actually keep an eye out for things like that.
 
jdm61 said:
Erik, have Achim/Lohmann cooked more batches of 115W8? It really is great stuff, but the problem was that the only source was his "fun smelt"
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He did a run of SC125 last year. A superclean 1.25 carbon steel for the hamonchasers.
 
erik markman said:
Achim Wirtz from Germany. I think he still has some SC125.
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My Ultrafort (maraging) steel supplier. Great guy and great steel selection! In Winter will probably be making me some tough Damascus with 50crv4 and 75ni8, if I recall correctly.
 
erik markman said:
115w8 takes a wicked hamon also.
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Erik, I have never used anything other than Parks #50 with the few 115W8 knives that I have made, so I didn't know until long after Toni gave me that first piece at Blade that is was a fairly shallow hardening steel, maybe like 1084. I'm glad I used 15N20 for that damascus that is still sitting on my bench. I will say that the sujihiki that I had at Gembloux in 2013 would make you bleed if you thought about it for too long and that was jus with a belt and buff sharpening at Claude's shop, no fancy water stone or anything like that. I have forged out a lightweight 9 inch by 5 mm+ fighter out of part of that little damascus billet and I think that the rest will be used for a Shigefusa style tall wa handle santoku.
 
Does anyone gave a link to this steel? My google searches come up empty.
 
Warren, I have a price list from Achim from 2015, I can email that to you if interested. Or you can email Achim Wirtz wootz@web.de. I need to talk with him again myself. I had ordered 115W8 from him a couple years ago, he's a good guy, give him a shout.
 
samuraistuart said:
Warren, I have a price list from Achim from 2015, I can email that to you if interested. Or you can email Achim Wirtz wootz@web.de. I need to talk with him again myself. I had ordered 115W8 from him a couple years ago, he's a good guy, give him a shout.
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See if he has any more!!!!
 
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