High Performance Carbon Steel

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Aerosmith101

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What are the highest performance carbon steels (excluding steels such as M4 since they're not technically carbon steel)
 
For what purpose? Thin slicers? Machetes? Competition Choppers? Skinning Knives? Swords? Razor Blades? All have different requirements.
 
My favorite users in the "bushcraft/hunting" category are customs by Daado of this forum in 52100. Easy to sharpen and holds a working edge well. Affordable too.--KV
 
Delta 3v from Carothers. Regular 3v from any reputable maker/company is no slouch either.
 
Highest performance? Well just speaking from my limited knowledge there's 3v, 5160, 52100, O1, W2, A2 and S7 just to name a few that are pretty high performance from what I've learned so far. I'm sure I've missed some other good ones though.
 
"Carbon steel." What, you mean simple low-alloy or pushed-to-the-limit stuff that has iron, carbon and all kinds of other additions? Or maybe stuff that rusts a bit due to lower chromium content?

I tend to think of carbon steel where carbon is the major alloying element by percent, at least for knives or readily hardenable steel. Yeah, manganese gets up there, but it is what it is.
 
DeadboxHero said:
1.2562, 26C3, CFV
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I just daydreamed of you doing folder blades for Todd Rexford, under a shared “B-Rex” mark.

“Zirc bolster, black timascus pivot cover, clip, and backspacer, and Rex 121, treated for stability, hardened to 68hrc, wearing a .010” bte grind, on .09” stock, with a hand rub finish.”

Every buyer, everywhere, faints simultaneously.
 
Aerosmith101 said:
I know it's technically a carbon steel but in my opinion it's kinda in it's own category
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And, technically, "high performance" is meaningless. Even if you tell us you want to use it for bushcraft/hunting.

High performance for what? Edge retention? Ease of sharpening? Toughness? Strength? Cost? Rust resistance?

People can tell you which carbon steels they like, but anyone who says one of them is "high performance", or worse "the highest performance," is saying nonsense.

It's like saying so and so is the "best" steel.
 
AshesFall said:
Highest performance? Well just speaking from my limited knowledge there's 3v, 5160, 52100, O1, W2, A2 and S7 just to name a few that are pretty high performance from what I've learned so far. I'm sure I've missed some other good ones though.
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So what puts these in the category of "high performance" and puts other steels out of that category?
 
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