Every knife in your collection transitions to one steel type. What steel would you choose?

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DangerZone98

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Just a fun (hopefully?) thought experiment. This goes for your choppers, folders, machetes, small fixed blades. What steel would you choose? Your blades retain their existing shape and cross section.

I’d be plenty happy with well heat treated 1095, 52100, or 3V.
 
Not playing that one.
If all my knives were the same alloy, some of the knives would then have an alloy with properties inappropriate to the use the knife was designed for.
I do not wish a machete and a high end hunting knife to have the same blade steel.
 
Low background steel(pre atomic bomb era), I would then sell all my knives for profit and get custom knives each made in the perfect steel for their use.

PS-if you didn't know if you have any steel or machinery from pre Atomic bomb era its actually worth quite a bit of money as its required to make some sensitive equipment modern steel cant be used for.
 
Workingsloth777 said:
S35vn... But I am mostly a folding knife collector so....
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True, S35VN’s a great steel. I’ve got a soft spot for carbon steels though. Super steels are great to have, but even something like 1095 would cover most of my needs. I’d probably want a stainless for kitchen use though.
 
Phoynix said:
Low background steel(pre atomic bomb era), I would then sell all my knives for profit and get custom knives each made in the perfect steel for their use.

PS-if you didn't know if you have any steel or machinery from pre Atomic bomb era its actually worth quite a bit of money as its required to make some sensitive equipment modern steel cant be used for.
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Interesting take!
 
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