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Hello,
I kind of miss my Blur, and I see some good prices on Blurs popping up lately on the fleabay, but I can't always rely on the item descriptions to tell me what steel the knife's blade is made of. That's pretty understandable, since a lot of sellers a) just use a stock image, and b) probably just copy-and-paste their information from the manufacturer's website, so they'd reflect whatever steel the Blurs are currently made of, not necessarily what steel that particular knife was made of.
I know that there have been many different steels used on the Kershaw Blur over the years - 440A, 13c26, 14c28n, 420HC, S30V, CPM154, etc. I know that one can check the 'born-on' date stamp on the blade of a standard production Blur and use that to determine whether Kershaw was using 440A, 13c26, or 14c28n at the time that particular knife was made.
What I'm wondering, though, is whether the knife's appearance can be used to judge what steel the blade is made from. As with steel, it looks like the blur has undergone a few cosmetic changes over the years - at some point, they switched the sandpaper-style inserts to rubberized ones, and the blade grind seems to have changed from a pretty high flat-grind to what looks like a hollow-grind.
Assuming I can't discern / find out what date is stamped on the blade:
Would it be safe to say that this one is made from either 13c26 or 14c28? It seems as though the knives with the steeper, hollow-looking grind are what Kershaw is currently producing, although I'm not sure.
...while this one (which kind of seems to be the older style blade shape?) is more likely made from 440a? Is it possible that a Blur of this blade shape / handle design was made with 13c26, or are they all 440a blades?
My google-fu / the mystical search engine has yeilded nothing in this regard.
I kind of miss my Blur, and I see some good prices on Blurs popping up lately on the fleabay, but I can't always rely on the item descriptions to tell me what steel the knife's blade is made of. That's pretty understandable, since a lot of sellers a) just use a stock image, and b) probably just copy-and-paste their information from the manufacturer's website, so they'd reflect whatever steel the Blurs are currently made of, not necessarily what steel that particular knife was made of.
I know that there have been many different steels used on the Kershaw Blur over the years - 440A, 13c26, 14c28n, 420HC, S30V, CPM154, etc. I know that one can check the 'born-on' date stamp on the blade of a standard production Blur and use that to determine whether Kershaw was using 440A, 13c26, or 14c28n at the time that particular knife was made.
What I'm wondering, though, is whether the knife's appearance can be used to judge what steel the blade is made from. As with steel, it looks like the blur has undergone a few cosmetic changes over the years - at some point, they switched the sandpaper-style inserts to rubberized ones, and the blade grind seems to have changed from a pretty high flat-grind to what looks like a hollow-grind.
Assuming I can't discern / find out what date is stamped on the blade:
Would it be safe to say that this one is made from either 13c26 or 14c28? It seems as though the knives with the steeper, hollow-looking grind are what Kershaw is currently producing, although I'm not sure.
...while this one (which kind of seems to be the older style blade shape?) is more likely made from 440a? Is it possible that a Blur of this blade shape / handle design was made with 13c26, or are they all 440a blades?
My google-fu / the mystical search engine has yeilded nothing in this regard.
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