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Hello everyone, I've been forging and making knives for a couple of years now, I've been reading these forums for a long time, just taking in information and studying, I haven't participated in discussions here becauser I felt I havent got as much experience as some of the vets here, so I felt I wouldn't be able to contribute much help to others,. I have learned a lot from reading all fo the forums here, so thanks for that first of all. But what I need is some help finding good high end steels int he UK, I like to experiment with any type of steel so dont be shy and hold back your sources, I use high carbon steels, spring steels, stainless steels anything really if it's decent stuff. I have mainly been buying steel off Ebay, but lately there seems to be a drought of good stuff. I was about to grab some 80crV2 but some bugger grabbed the whole lot and now it's all gone, and I didn't get to try it out. Ebay is flooded with 02 which is alright I guess, but I'm looking for something a little more spicy than 02, if you know what I mean. There's a bunch of pre hardened spring steel CS95 etc, which is fine I use that for cheap machetes and camp choppers I make. I just can't seem to find any decent steel anymore. I'd really like to get my hands on some high end stuff, but ordering from places like Carpenter and Crucible int he states cost too much in shipping. If anybody here knows how to get some nice CPM stuff or similar over in the UK or a local dealer I'd love to know. I'm trying to step my game up right now and move from budget production to mid-high end stuff now that I opened an etsy shop last week. I can get hold of some Hitachi white paper steel here for pretty good price £25 a bar, but it's a laminated steel and to be hoenst it scares me lol, I've never worked with laminated bar stock, and the hard core is only 1mm thick surrounded by huge cheeks of softer steel, and I kind of want to move to doing more stock removal instead of forging, because forging just takes too long and I want to pump out a higher quantity of products. Not sure if I can work well with laminated stuff, maybe I'm just being paranoid and it's a piece of cake, but that 1mm core seems a bit risky, what If i grind too much away and the core vanishes haha then I'm left with 2 cheeks of garbag cladding and can't find the core. Anyways this message is draggong on a bit much now so i'll end it here, consider this my indroduction and opening post to the forums.
Feel free to link all of your steel suppliers and contacts here that sell high end steels and deliver them tot he UK for a good price, Carbon steels, tool steels, stainless all welcome. I make kitchen knives, tools, bushcraft knives, survival knives, machetes, all sorts, thinking of trying some friction folders for UK legal carry as well, so alls teel types are helpful. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum, it seemed like the correct one.
Thanks, Aaron
Feel free to link all of your steel suppliers and contacts here that sell high end steels and deliver them tot he UK for a good price, Carbon steels, tool steels, stainless all welcome. I make kitchen knives, tools, bushcraft knives, survival knives, machetes, all sorts, thinking of trying some friction folders for UK legal carry as well, so alls teel types are helpful. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum, it seemed like the correct one.
Thanks, Aaron
