Fill in the blank steel

[elkins45]

Fill in the blank:

"I love all these new super steels as much as the next guy, but for 99% of my knife uses the steel only needs to be as good as __________."

What steel is your 'good enough' steel?

 

[Sevorius]

Buck's 420HC and Victorinox's stainless still get it done for me.
For a fixed blade, good old 1095 has never let me down yet.

 

[gnw1209]

440c thats my minimum

 

[Sep]

Whatever steel SAKs made of.

 

[spidyman]

BOS HT'd S30V

 

[enderwiggin]

Aus 8, which I think is a fine using steel.

 

[H0B0J0]

I love my S30V, D2, M4, INFI, etc

but theres nothing wrong with 154cm for my EDC purposes. :thumbup:

My Benchmade 950 Rift can take a mean edge, and hold it.

 

[Roger999]

Victorinox's inox is fine for most of my uses.

 

[p_mcmanis]

154cm

My answer as well.

 

[Hawkings]

I'm pretty much in with the SAK group on this one.

 

[Redrummd]

420 HC as heat treated by Buck knives....

 

[zenheretic]

H1...........

 

[orca8589]

1095 with a good heat treat is still the best. I have a handful of knives in other steels, like AUS8 & the 440 series, etc., but all the newer stuff is just alphabet soup to me. I read up on every new steel that comes out, and the more I learn, the more I like good ol' 1095. :thumbup:

thx - cpr

 

[orthogonal1]

I've been satisfied with M2. Note that I don't do much chopping and such.

 

[A.P.F.]

Buck 420HC with the Paul Bos magic.

 

[bchan77]

154CM is good enough for 'high-end' knives for me; Buck's 420HC is quite respectable for ordinary men's working knives.

 

[Toyz]

+1 for 154CM and the Vic mix in SAKs:thumbup:

 

[PartialSerrations]

154cm for stainless, not CPM 154 and A2 for non-stainless

:thumbup:

 

[BJE]

I prefer 1095 myself, that includes Case CV and Boker's C75 in my book.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

440 stainless surgical steel is good enough for my swords.

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