Gran'pa Series question

[knarfeng]

The 2006 Catalog says the Gran'pa series was made with "carbon steel" blades. Would anyone happen to know which carbon steel? 1095, 1085...


Thanks,
Frank

 

[cookie9]

Should have been 1095...... unless we ran out of a certain size and subbed carbon V

 

[knarfeng]

Thank you, sir.

(I won an auction for a "two-blade pocket" Gran'pa. It was not so labeled, but I recognized it from the Catalog.)

Carbon V would be especially sweet. Of all the blade steels I have sampled (and I have sampled a lot of them), 0170-6C is the one that I find to have the best combination of the properties that I desire in a pocket knife.

But 1095 would be just fine.

 

[knarfeng]

I have erred. Looks like a Gran'pa, but the tang is stamped Remington. I know that Camillus made a series like this and the seller advertised it as Camillus, not Remington. Either way, I like it. here it is with a Camillus 3 3/4" trapper in non-stainless. (I like it, too.)