Carbon Steel folders?

Dannyc

Dannyc

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Hi guys!

Can anybody provide me a list of folders whose blade steel are made of carbon steel (not stainless)?

I know of the AFCK-M2, The CS Twistmasters, some A2 steel folders, and the D2-Extreme. But are there any other folders (either lockback or liner-lock) out there that I may have missed?

Any info on this is highly appreciated.
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Thanks!
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Dan
 
I'm not sure, but didn't Benchmade put out a Stryker in M2 as well?

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I have an AFCK and a Stryker in M2 steel, they are both VERY nice.

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I have a feeling that most knives available with carbon steel blades are going to be traditional styles. Case, Hen & rooster, Kissing Crane, Eye Brand etc. Something about the tactical mode that calls for stainless steel.
 
Excluding tool and Damascus steel models there are few lockblade carbon steel folders, a model that I am informally collecting; Old Timer Mustangs, Gunstock Trappers and Mighty-Mites, an Eye Brand lockblade Sodbuster, a couple of Case Copperlocks, a Camillus faux tortise shell lockblade, Opinels, CS Twistmasters, some Balisongs, and ..... I think that's about it.
 
Dozier has made some D-2 folders and shows them on his website.
 
Hey those are great selections, guys! Thanks..

I'm just wondering how come these aren't as popular as the stainless ones. I find that stainless folders need little or no maintenance, and I think I'm missing all the fun out of giving "attention" to my knives coz whenever I look at them, they are as I left them, clean and bright.
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My dad is somewhat old-fashioned, that's why I'm going to hunt down a folder with carbon-steel blade (and the suggestions are great, thanks again) to give him this Christmas, and maybe to add to my collection as well.
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Thanks again! I'll check them all out.
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Dan
 
Huh?
You guys quote M2 and D2 as carbon steels? Just because they are not stainless? IMO this is completely wrong! Carbon steels are by definition just that, an alloy from iron and carbon, with only minor other trace elements like silicium coming from the ore, not from the hand of someone in a steel mill. So it's just the 10xx-series steels and W1/W2 you can quote as real carbon steels. Maybe with one closed eye 5160 or 52100, but never ever a semi-stainless steel like D2 with its 12 % of chromium.


Achim
 
Just a thought, but some of the nicest carbon steel traditional knives i have seen lately are the new Camillus knives with the tortoise shell celluloid handles from A.G. Russell. Very cool old school stuff.
 
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I'll check out the Camillus knives, sounds good.
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Old school... that's the same term we use on racing engines that are of old designs.
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AchimW, you're probably right.. M2 and D2 aren't really carbon steels, but they aren't stainless steels either.
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Anybody made any folder using the 5160 steel?

Dan
 
Achim,

You're correct, M-2 and D-2 aren't technically "carbon steels". However, on the internet and in most knife magazines, the term "carbon steels" has come to be synonymous with "non-stainless steels", so alloy steels and the like are subsumed under the definition.

Joe
 
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