Best source of 416 SS?

[Bob Lyon]

I'd like to get some 416 stainless bar stock and 416 rods for pins to use for bolsters. What's the best source?

 

[cdark]

i dont know the best source for but i have a question about 416. i noticed a note under the 416 ad in the koval catalog. it says that for greater corrosin resistance heat treatment is necessary. i just wondered what people who use it think about that, and do you do it? or you don't really need to bother?

thanks a million, chris

 

[Don Cowles]

1) most of the knife maker supply houses carry it

2) Tim Herman gave me my first chunk of it a couple years ago, and I asked the same question about heat treating it. He said he never has. I haven't either, and never had a speck of rust.

Don Cowles
www.cowlesknives.com