Can yall help me identify what steel this is?

[Tx Liz]

How does one decipher the code of what texture is what type of steel?
I feel dumb cause I just can’t identify the differences.
And some knives have a lot more spalting, where others have very little showing. There’s gotta be a secret to understanding this.
Below are two different knives- how do you identify which steel they are?
A little help here, guys?

 

[NoRest]

The first one looks to be A2. The other one is harder to tell from this pic.

 

[Tx Liz]

thanks! I wish there was a a chart somewhere for reference!

 

[jmgruber]

Don’t feel dumb.
Also - spalting can be different even if two knives are made from the same steel.

 

[Fiddleback]

First pic is A2. It features very well defined spalting.

#2 w the hammer texture is CPM154

 

[Mistwalker]

Don’t feel dumb.
Also - spalting can be different even if two knives are made from the same steel.

And some of the older O-1 can have more defined spalting and can look more like some of the newer A-2.

All the triangles in the hammer texture on the CPM154, Nitro V, and from what I can tell the AEB-L give them away. From what I am able to see on the website, looking at the one I'm in love with but can't afford ,the Magnacut seems to take the splating better than the other stainless steels, or Andy may have a different hammer texture for Magnacut.

 

[abraves]

And some of the older O-1 can have more defined spalting and can look more like some of the newer A-2.

All the triangles in the hammer texture on the CPM154, Nitro V, and from what I can tell the AEB-L give them away. From what I am able to see on the website, looking at the one I'm in love with but can't afford ,the Magnacut seems to take the splating better than the other stainless steels, or Andy may have a different hammer texture for Magnacut.

Just grab that Bushboot. It looks mighty lonely.

 

[Mistwalker]

Just grab that Bushboot. It looks mighty lonely.

LOL, Oh how I wish I could! It's a grail for a number of reasons, and would be great in wild medicinal plant harvest photos.

But the timing is just all wrong. My income just got reconfigured 4 weeks ago after being injured last Thanksgiving. I had to either go back to 5 days or drop to 3 so they could hire someone for 2 days. And I was only doing 4 days because 5 was too much and they needed the help. So I just lost $800 a month in pay, and I still have to pay $700 a month for two more years on my first ever auto loan for a jeep at age 58 when I started it two years ago, plus I just put tires on it.

Trust me, I have considered selling a Jericho II or a Randall #11 to fund it, but I just can't risk selling them only to have someone else buy it before I could get to it. There isn't anything else available I want that bad. I even thought about asking Andy if he would hold one of them till I got the BB paid off, but that isn't his business model.

Lol, the only reason I have the EMK knives you may have seen me use in the W&SS posts I do is because Ed and I go back several years, we're Bible study companions, and he loves me like a brother, so he will let me make payments... and I had more money coming in and could pay them off quickly

I'm working on finding a 3 days a week part time job on this side of the county, now that I know Alayna's class schedule for this coming semester. If it's meant to be mine it will still be there when I figure out how to fund it. If not, another Bushboot will come along eventually.

 

[Fiddleback]

Good eye on the magnacut.

 

[Mistwalker]

Good eye on the magnacut.

Thanks, I know you hate boring flats so I always watch to see what you come up with in that regard.