Any info on the Benchmade H20?

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A recent thread about H1 got me to thinking about the BM version of a corrosive-resistant steel. How do these two steels compare to your normal steels for sharpening, edge holding, and toughness?

Compared to say VG10 or 1095.
 
dude, you might have better luck in general or benchmade's own forum.
 
x15tn is less corrosion resistant but according to BM offers higher edge retention. H1 is more corrosion resistent, and again according to BM has less edge retention. That is why the h20 fixed blade was switched from originally being H1 to x15tn.

If I'm remembering correctly Spyderco has said that their testing showed the edge retention between the two was very comparable and that H1 was significantly more corrosion resistant. But you may need to do more searching if you want to know if thats accurate or not, its been a while.

I don't think x15tn is work hardening either, so it seems logical that x15tn was just easier for BM to work with and suited their needs well enough.

My SE H1 Tasman Salt has very good edge retention, better than the 12cr13mov on my tenacious, and about where my Emerson A100 is (154cm, but softer than most people run it 54ish hrc I think)

I think Spyderco posted results on their SE H1 blades testing out at mid to high 60s on the edge.
 
I have a Pacific in H1 and a BM111H2OBLK. The H1 steel is different, very light, I find sharpening and edge retention kind of like 1095. Softer then a lot of the newer SS out there, but very serviceable.
The Bohler N680 is harder, and performs kind of like the 154CM as far as sharpening and edge retention.
I haven't tried any sort of rust tests with either of these.
 
I just picked one up here last month. Haven't really had a chance to test it all that
much but it's a very nice knife. Not as smooth an opener though as a regular griptilian
but locks up just as well.
 
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