Camillus Steel-to soft?

[Max-Damage]

I noticed that camillus dosent harden steel above 59 hrc-i can understand that when it comes to 154cm or s30v,but why dosetn camillus push the carbon-loaded steel of the beckers some more?On other compamnies pages i noticed tha the carbon steels are hardened to 60 -62 hrc why dosent camillus do that?

 

[Terrill]

Just a thought but, I would say that Camillus works to produce what they think is the best. The concept of heat treating is a give and take. You consider the results you want and then harden to the point that matches those traits. Too soft and you can't hold an edge. Too hard and you can't resharpen. Too soft and the blade will bend, too hard and it will break. On top of that, you get to add in the tooling cost of working with the steel at different hardness levels.
But the nice thing about all of it, I don't have to think about it.
I can just take my Beckers out into the woods and use them forever and a day. Then after hours of abuse, if the need a tune up on the edge, it isn't hard to do.

 

[calyth]

I would think you wouldn't want a 60+ heat treat on your Beckers because steel can be rather brittle when it's harder. You wouldn't want your knife to shatter when you're just about to give it some rough work, would you?

 

[Jeff Clark]

The Becker line products fall into the "rugged use" class. You would expect these to frequently bump into some hard objects and you don't want the knife to chip or break. Since these knives are produced to sell at moderate prices they are not differentially hardened. In order to maintain toughness you need to back off a little from maximum hardness for blade alloy. To me 59RC is on the high side for the character of these knives. I question why they aren't 57RC? If these were hunting knife designs I would be looking for 59RC.

 

[Tom Carey]

I am with Jeff on this one. If you harden the edge on a knife that is going to be beat to H**L It's going to chip if the RC is above 59 for sure!


Regards,

Tom Carey