Diefenthal...

mendezj

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Are any of you knife wizards familiar with Diefenthal knives from Germany? Some of their knives are advertised as having blades from D 2000 Surgical Steel, anyone familiar with D 2000, or is D 2000 just a devious marketing shot at D-2?

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had difenthal in 70s--all i ever saw was stainless ---quality was decent . all mine came in stag with lockbacks. in general i believe the germans for the most part have lagged behind in the stainless used in folders.
dennis
 
All I can dig up on D2000 is that it could be a variation on the 440C recipe. That's not fact, but an informed opinion and not mine.

Also, it seems that the company will not divulge information on it.

Not a lot of use, but maybe it helps a little.

David
 
mendezj said:
Are any of you knife wizards familiar with Diefenthal knives from Germany? Some of their knives are advertised as having blades from D 2000 Surgical Steel, anyone familiar with D 2000, or is D 2000 just a devious marketing shot at D-2?

Hey, thank you for reading, huh...
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Well, I looked on Zviad's interactive steel chart and couldn't find any reference to D 2000. (http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelchart.php) Zviad's handle around here is Gator97. That man has a couple of thousand alloy names in his database. He put a walloping load of work into it. Since "D 2000" isn't listed, chances are that it is a name Diefenthal applies to whatever alloy they actually buy.

I looked up a couple of descriptions of the the Diefenthal blades. They describe D 2000 as a razor blade steel with a hardness of 58-60. That's a bit soft for D2. And D2 is many things, but a razor steel ain't one of them. The properties are so different that I'd guess the semblance in name to D2 is happenstance. But who knows? I was never good at marketing a product.

Of course in looking up Diefenthal, I did get a look at their knives. Very, very pretty. Some fella over on that British knife site says the things are really well made. He thinks the alloy is similar in properties to 440C, though I'd not call 440C a razor steel either.
 
During the later part of the last century [which makes me feel like a fossil] I carried a lock back Diefenthal with stag scales. Pretty knife, never a problem with it. The blade was stainless, but it did its work well.

Eventually I moved on to lighter weight pocket knives. I still have the knife. It’s still a beauty.
 
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