440 Stainless For a Dive Knife?

[lobo9er]

I agree if you have 440c use it. I have a knives of Alaska filet knife in 440c works great it has speckled after I left unattended after cleaning a couple fish and left in my tackle box for a while by mystake. Speckling was very minimal though.

 

[Gaston444]

Randall is proof. $400+ you can buy knives that will out perform Randalls in every way. 440B meh .

Oh yeah? Funny, but that is not at all my impression of $2000 customs in S30V or CPM154cm vs my stainless Model 12...

Also, I seem to remember a 440B Model 14 Randall that held up much better chopping a cinder block in half that an INFI Sasquatch... I must be misremembering how that went down...

But new steel names are better than old steel names, that is just fact you know...

Gaston

 

[lobo9er]

Oh yeah? Funny, but that is not at all my impression of $2000 customs in S30V or CPM154cm vs my stainless Model 12...

Also, I seem to remember a 440B Model 14 Randall that held up much better chopping a cinder block in half that an INFI Sasquatch... I must be misremembering how that went down...

But new steel names are better than old steel names, that is just fact you know...

Gaston

440b properties are well known do you believe metallurgy stopped progressing after 440b was created? In which way is 440b out performing s30v or 154 elaborate and are we comparing apples to apples, blade geometry and what not? I don't remember Infi vs randall so help us out with a link.

 

[lobo9er]

It was my fault for trolling to a degree and hi-jacking the thread if you care to continue gaston start a new thread other wise I will leave it here...