Carbon steel

[blade dude]

Does vintage schrade knife steel rust If it's not carbon steel? I want another carbon steel schrade and am wondering if non carbon steel ones rust.

 

[ConBon]

ALL steel rusts, but Schrade+ is stainLESS, so it won't develop any easily. The Uncle Henry I had was very easy to sharpen, and held a really good edge so I somewhat prefer Schrade stainless over Schrade carbon.

Connor

 

[GaiusJulius]

I have a Schrade-made Buck which is assuredly stainless, so they definitely used it back in the day...

 

[knarfeng]

ALL steel rusts, but Schrade+ is stainLESS, so it won't develop any easily. The Uncle Henry I had was very easy to sharpen, and held a really good edge so I somewhat prefer Schrade stainless over Schrade carbon.

Connor

Pretty much what Connnor said. "Schrade +" was 440A with a good heat treat up till the late 90's.

vintage Schrade knife steel

Not sure what you mean by "vintage".

You might ask on the Schrade Collector forum how early Schrade started using stainless. I remember getting a small Schrade stockman for my birthday in 1964. It was stainless.
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