AEB-L thickness for kitchen knife

[TLR]

Looking at ordering some AEB-L to try some kitchen/chef knife designs. Two questions-

1.) Does AEB-L from AKS tend to come with scale that needs to be ground off?

2.) If it does or doesn't what thickness should I look at?

 

[Robert Erickson]

The AEB-L from either AKS or NJSB that I've gotten has been clean. I like 0.09" to 0.10" for chefs and 0.078 for paring knives.

 

[Salem Straub]

+1^^^

 

[jdm61]

From what I was told a couple of months ago by the Man with the Plan from Voestalpine Strip, all of the AEB-L coming in today from that brand spanking new rolling million Austria is clean and smooth. I think that Chuck posted a picture of the first batch of the .192 stuff and it looked very nice. No nasty scale to be seen anywhere.

 

[TLR]

Thanks to all of you for the insight!

 

[DukeHarley]

All the AEB-L I've gotten from AKS has been clean and scale free.

Jay