About Kabars cryo treatment on D2

[Technix]

Hello and Greeting from Austria to the knife community.

Recently i extended the knife collection with my first Kabar, i got myself a BK24.
I really like the look and handling of the knife, the sheath is rather mediocre, by chance i´ll make a nice kydex one.
I also wanted to handle some of the infamous D2 steel, it´s said to be a love or hate affair, but after beeing pempered by carbon steels in the past years i wanted to try something different. Well, i haven´t come to a conclusion jet, my sharpenig attempts with a water stone were quite a lost case, but i really love the corrosion resistance
But lets get to the actual point.
I read a lot about positive effect of cryo treatment on high alloy steels and wanted to make a experiment with dry ice/acetone and my D`Eskabar when i noticed Kabars specification of an cryo quench during the heat treatment process, at least on their stainless steel blades.
Is their D2 also regarded as stainless and therefore cryo treated? Would be nice, no need for me to risk frostbite :thumbup:

Bye

Niko

 

[Technix]

So.....no one? Looks the way i have do my one version of the (dry) ice bucket challenge.....

 

[OFFICIAL_KA-BAR]

Yes, D2 is considered a stainless. It is at a much higher Rockwell than our traditional Fighting/Utiity knives and requires either a diamond or ceramic sharpener.

-OKB

 

[Technix]

Thanks a lot, so i assume a cryo treatment was done allready during production and further attemps won´t bring noticable results...