Case, surgical stainless steal...

Grover_Cephas said:
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How's a blade with chrome vanadium steel "carbon steel"? :confused:
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CV carbon content is what? Around 1.9?
440C is around oh .9 to 1.2?

With CV you have to keep it lightly oiled at all times pretty much or it rusts, most likely due to the higher carbon content.. .

As for Case knives, their stainless is for show, the CV is for use and I love their CV knives, especially the yellow handle ones.
 
It is a high carbon steel with those ingredients (CV) added.

52100 is 5160 with added ingredients or as one metallurgist put it, 52100 is 5160 with 'attitude' since it has more alloy and more carbon and is generally thought to be tougher due to those additions. As I recall it is also harder.

5160 is 1060 steel with 1% Carbon added to make it 'deep hardening'. It can go on and on like that.

CV steel is no different in that respect in that it is one of the high carbon steels with something added at the request of Case to either make it harden better or to a higher Rc or to make it keep an edge better, or wear better or resist corrosion slightly better than before those elements were added.
 
Really interesting stuff. I may just have to grab one of these up to see how it performs. :D

How long has Case been offering these?
 
They have always had some knives available in the CV steel but they are not always the same models because like everything else they change things around now and then in their lineup.

I really would love to see Case come out with a Seahorse Whittler w/CV steel so someone could actually do some serious carving and whittling with one. Making them in that crappy steel as a Whittler is such a joke really. I have a Bulldog brand in high carbon steel that blows the Case away in cutting ability and edge keeping. Night and day difference really.
 
Of course there is always the more expensive and very limited production runs of Case-Tony Bose collaboration knives in ATS-34.
 
STR said:
They have always had some knives available in the CV steel but they are not always the same models because like everything else they change things around now and then in their lineup.

I really would love to see Case come out with a Seahorse Whittler w/CV steel so someone could actually do some serious carving and whittling with one. Making them in that crappy steel as a Whittler is such a joke really. I have a Bulldog brand in high carbon steel that blows the Case away in cutting ability and edge keeping. Night and day difference really.
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How about this one "ATS-34 Whittler 2005", ATS-34 isn't soooo bad, right? :p
 
That is a pretty knife. I have seen that one. I guess when I think of whittler I always think of the Wharncliff blade though. Like the Seahorse.

Thanks though.
 
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