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Hey Owen..
You may not have one lie among them.. doesn't mean there is one truth among them either.. thats the problem with perception, and the problem with your perception based statement "corrodes easily"
Pehharps yours did rust.. perhaps you dont oil it enough.. I think the issue is you statement of "corrodes pretty easily" is what gets annoying.
My 7 CPM 3V blades have been used extensively on acidic foods, vinegar baths, normal use, cutting.. getting wet.. normal stuff with nothing more than basic maintenance, yet there is no patina, let alone rust on them.
so.. the question is.. Pretty easily compared to What? My 12c27 Stainless steel gets a patina faster than my 3v Knives.. I have 3v from Fehrman, Ranger, and Bark River. Not one of them can even form a patina in a 10 minute vinegar bath. other carbons like L6, A2, 1095 etc will form patina within and under 3 minutes. Many will get patina with a single cut of an onion. So Pretty Easily corroding is a crazy statement without adding boundaries of what you are comparing it to.
Busse INFI is Widely accepted as having amazing corrosian resistance on this forum. INFI is not a Stainless, but it sure acts like one in normal well maintained use.. Well.. so does CPM3V steel.. if it cannot for a patina in 10minutes with 100% white vinegar then its Stainless enough. in my book.
What you dont say is if your knife was in your house for 1 month, or 6 months. was it sitting in a leather sheath which acts as a dehumidifier and sucks moisture onto the blade.
You say that it corrodes easily and it sounds like it will rust in an eyeblink. I have Busse, Fehrman, Bark River among a number of other great blades in different steels. Mostly Carbon..
All carbon rusts.. this is correct. Patina is the first sign you get, before you ever get rusting of a damaging nature. I wont dispute that you may have had some rust on your fehrman.. but sometimes peoples perspectives are way out of kilter and the just dont realise the timeframes they are referring to.
The other simple fact that you, and others are forgetting is that you may see rust on a blade.. doesn't mean its from the blade rusting.. there can easily be fine surface particles of metal dust on a blade from sharpening or any other numerous reasons that can oxidise and rust in minutes and start effecting the blade.
The reality here is that 3V is listed as a highly stain resistant steel. more than D2. the proof is that this is correct. A statement saying yours rusted may not be a lie.. but is sure as hell is subjective and merits very little compared with the dozens of owners that dont sell them, and use them every day.
I'm not really interested in the Fanboy crap either. Thats the kind of swill people write to deflect from debating facts. Forget Fehrman.. Fehrman dont make CPM3V ... Crucible does.. We are talking about steels and facts when we talk about rust.. not brands.
If we are going to say that a Ferhman Rusts easily.. then we have to say that annecdotaly INFI must also rust easily.. as my resuslts in video recorded tests show them to be relatively equal in corrosian resistance.. they are both Carbon steels.
