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I am wondering if anyone knows if there is an advantage to either Aldo's 1095 or Admirals 1095?
 
You know what you're getting with Aldo. Maybe not so much with Admiral?
 
my experience with Admiral's 1095 (and many other folks can corroborate)is that it came scaled with carbide banding issues. I was disappointed and decided not to make a blade from it. I have since gotten 1095 from Aldo, it is nice and etches to a velvet black in Ferric Chloride. I will not buy anything again from Admiral, their customers service sucks, they misrepresent their blade steels, and their product in my experience has been marginally useable at best. I have been buying steel from Aldo since he first started selling steel, and his steel and service have been excellent, he may take a day or three to get back to you if he is travelling to a hammer in, but once he is back the steel goes right out (yes he is actually a bladesmith not some big corporate giant that mostly sells architectural steel with a little bit of blade stock in the mix) Aldo is a great guy who got into selling blade steel because he found that nobody was supplying knifemakers with good steel.

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I have to ditto the not knowing what you get from admiral, I typically do not have anything bad to say but!!, I got a couple of bars of 1084, came on the invoice/shipping as 1060/1070 ?? When I heat treated it scaled like nothing I have ever seen befor, I HT some test blanks, good thing, because I could not get the temper to work at all, stayed as brittal as glass, finally found a temp that worked and finished a few blades. The decarb was so bad that I threw away all but one blade and all the steel, I just could not waste the time to finish these, I did finish one for myself and it seems to work fine but I could not justify selling this mystery steel.
 
Go with Aldo.

I once ordered some 1095 from Admiral, only to find that the bars were seriously bent. They seem to do OK if your order 5160 or ATS34; otherwise expect some problems.
 
Go with Aldo. Admieral has too much banding issues. (Looks like wood grain even at 800 grit finish,)
Aldo's comes with no scale and annealed. Finishes very smooth and throws a nice hamon on a clay quench. Aldo also doesn't kill you on postage
 
I recently ordered 24 feet of 1095 from admiral, and so far it's been very straight and clean, and given me no issues.

Maybe I'm lucky?
 
I may be wrong but I bet you'll see that banding people describe if you etch a piece of it in ferric. I know it was present in some I got from them. From now on its Aldo all the way.
 
I've been ordering 1095 from Admiral for a while now and have been extremely happy with zero issues so far. I sometimes had to wait 2 weeks before getting my order in (without tracking or notification) but lately I have been receiving everything in a very timely manner with proper notification of shipping info.
I've also ordered from Aldo with no real issues.
 
Same here..banding issues with Admiral, go with Aldo..We order all our steel from either Aldo or kelly Couples..
 
I've seen several negative posts about Admiral.

I've heard nothing but great things about Aldo.
 
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12' of 1095 and 2' of CPM154 coming from the baron :D
Does Kelly Couples have a website?
 
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