Calmax steel?

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I thinking of getting this steel since there are not so many exotic steel selling around here. Its seems to be a super tough steel with medium wear resistance.

Judge from the composition it seems to be very close to S7 steel with higher carbon and chromium content. The as quenched hardness is much higher than S7 too so I imagine that it might be even tougher than S7 at higher HRC like 59-60.

Anyone have try or have real world experienced on this steel?
 
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Where did you find this steel for sale.
 
You would want to ask Cliff Stamp or Kyley Harris (of cKc knives) about it. Kyley did a run of large choppers in it, and Cliff has used them extensively.

In NA it's not available last time I checked with John Steedman of BU (but that was a couple of years ago), and in Europe and NZ (where Kyley got his) sheets must be cut from giant blocks of it, so not very feasible for knives in most cases.
 
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