Help please with steel choice???

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Hey guys I am looking at getting a new knife. Spyderco, kershaw or benchmade probably. Anyway I'm looking upgrading my steel, right now I have a mini grip in 154cm. So I want to upgrade from this. I've been searching and reading and reading but its all confusing too me. All right so im looking at d2, s30v, vg-10, and zdp-189. I like to push cut so I will polish out the blade as much as I can by stropping. I also will thin out the edge to 15 degrees, and 20 degree micro bevel. So which steel is upgrading from where i'm at?? Better edge retention, and so on.
Thanks for the help guys.
 
Those are all good steels. For what you want, I'd suggest ZDP-189. Spyderco has models in this steel. The Military is coming out in S90V, which is another very hard steel. You might also try a Fallkniven in its 3G laminated super steel.
 
IMHO, D-2 and S30V are truly superb steels. Both ae about the same degree of work to sharpen, and both hold an edge till hell freezes over.

ZDP 189 is a better steel, but it's Japanese only. Spyderco will soon be releasing a knife in S90V which is similar to ZDP 189, but made by Crucible in the USA, and the knife will be USA made as well.

E-mail Sal Glesser at Spyderco. He can advise you better than any of us. :p
 
Ben, though the two steels may get to the end together , they do it by different routes. S90V is a very high vanadium steel, whereas ZDP has 3% carbon, 20% chromium, and unreleased amounts of tungsten and IIRC, some Moly.

ZDP will probably take thinner edges without breakout, and is a bit easier to sharpen in my opinion. The S90V will likely be run at lower RC's. They are still super premium steels, but very high vanadium steels with their harder and larger vanadium carbides are a bit different even though the numbers of cuts you end up with might be the same. Joe
 
The Mastiff said:
Ben, though the two steels may get to the end together , they do it by different routes. S90V is a very high vanadium steel, whereas ZDP has 3% carbon, 20% chromium, and unreleased amounts of tungsten and IIRC, some Moly.

ZDP will probably take thinner edges without breakout, and is a bit easier to sharpen in my opinion. The S90V will likely be run at lower RC's. They are still super premium steels, but very high vanadium steels with their harder and larger vanadium carbides are a bit different even though the numbers of cuts you end up with might be the same. Joe
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Joe,

Thanks for the info.! :)

Ben
 
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