Want to know others opinions on their favorites steels for folders if you can choose one you like best! You can pick one stainless and one non-stainless!
Depends on the use really. For beater EDC, something that cleans up easy is more important than something that takes abuse. AUS8 is great for light cutting. If I want tougher, I like S30V, but will disagree with the above and state my experiences with Buck's S30V have always resulted in unjustified chips. My serrations on my Vantage Force Pro especially are like glass. I'd say I received a bad model but I know lots of people who avoid Buck's harder steels.
CTS-XHP, N690co, Hap40 and CPM-154. I'm not to picky though to be honest. Spyderco'so Hap40, and N690co are two steels that impressed me a decent amount during pretty heavy use.
I like m390 the best, even more so than m4. For mundane daily tasks, I found n680 (not n690co) to be fantastic steel. I like it much more so than vg10/n690/vg10. I like it much more than h1 as well.
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