Any carbon steel folders or small fixed blades?

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AlonzoMosely

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I want to try carbon steel. Are there any production folders made with carbon steel? (BM LE's are too pricey for me). Or how about smallish fixed blades? The BM Nimravus in M2 is too pricey, sportsmansguide won't ship me the CQB3s, so the Becker Necker was the best I could find, though I'd prefer a folder. Any suggestions?
 
Hi, this is my first message here.
If you want a carbon folder, why don't you try an Opinel? The classic models have carbon steel blades, a nº8 or nº9 should be quite useful.
There are lots of Scandi fixed blades made of carbon steel for a good price. Check out Ragweeds Forge. I have a Frosts 277 and an Eriksson 22, both are great working knives.
 
Anza makes a lot of small fixed blades with carbon steel. Their knives are made from old files. I don't own one, but have seen a lot of positive comments about them.
 
I agree -- try an Opinel for $4-8. The regular carbon blades have .9% carbon, and are reportedly about on par with 1095.
 
W.T. Beck said:
Anza makes a lot of small fixed blades with carbon steel. Their knives are made from old files. I don't own one, but have seen a lot of positive comments about them.
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I had the ANZA 719 and it was one of the greatest knives. I gave it to someone in another forum as a first fixed blade. You can't beat them really as far as fixed blades go.
 
Camillus makes the CM61 and the CM62 both of which have the same 0170-6C carbon steel blades as the Becker line. Nice folders, fairly inexpensive. Opinels (like Swiss Army Knives) are always a very sheeple friendly choice.
 
You can try Cold Steel, most of their folders are Carbon blades, and they have lots of small carbon fixed blades. My voyagers hold up, although they are not heavy duty EDC, and they have retained their sharp edges pretty well. You could buy a used one off of eBay, but make sure that you get a really good deal on it, because you might get one that was not just used, but abused.
 
You can still find some Schrade Old Timers with carbon steel.

A popular Old Timer fixed blade is the Sharpfinger.
And the Old Timer stockmans have always been popular too.

Good luck,
Allen.
 
and one more word of advice on carbon steel blades - patina is a good thing.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
You can try Cold Steel, most of their folders are Carbon blades, and they have lots of small carbon fixed blades. My voyagers hold up, although they are not heavy duty EDC, and they have retained their sharp edges pretty well.
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CS has a few carbon steel folders but the Voyagers are AUS-8A.
 
There are also small carbon steel fixed blade knives made by Blackjack, Bark River, and Marbles. I think all of these have convex ground blades, which require a different sharpening method from hollow and flat ground blades. You need to use a leather strop or a mouse pad with a sheet of sandpaper on top. This preserves the curvature of the convex edge.

Tops makes some small knives in 1095. I don't know what kind of grind they use.
 
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I loved you in "Midnight Run" Alonzo. ;)
 
Moore Maker (mooremaker.com) uses 1095 carbon steel in nearly all of its folders and a few fixed blades. These are quality knives made by Queen and Camillius.
 
Eye Brand, Boker and Henkels all have carbon slipjoint offerings. Case has some in their CV steel too. All are decent quality but it helps if you can pick through a litter of them to get the best fit and finish one. I went to carbon steels a few years ago and use it pretty much exclusively. For what I use and need a knife for (whittling and woodcarving) it hands down beats stainless offerings. With a bit of care, the corrosion aspect is not much of an issue.
 
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