Hot Knives in 20 Years?

I'd like to one day see knives that are all carbide/crystal. No soft ferrous matrix, just the hard stuff.

Like the ceramic knives of today, but tough enough for utility purposes, and user-sharpenable.
 
There could probably be a flood of cheaper 'n entirely disposable knife-like cutters; which could have trendier ergo handles doing away with as much steel as possible. I suspect there will come a time when there would be the use of non-steel razor blades for a shave.
 
same shape of blade (tanto, spearpoint etc..) but with different material like cheap alloy (kindda talonite/stellite but cheaper) or kindda synthetic silex with hight hardness and cheap cost.
Handle won't change that much (titanium, AL, steel or synthetic like new G10 but more resistant)
 
Disposable blades will be popular whether break off razors, or replaceable blades like tigersharp ( made with Gin 5 for those curious. Not as good as gin 1, but probably more damage resistant.)

The other way will be like Rockstead knives. A super hard HSS ( RC68? or something like that) with an apple seed type grind. They give you a device to put sandpaper on set at the right angle, and you just run it down one side only. No matching angles, or even touching the other side. The average user might not need to sharpen it for a year ( not you Yablanowitz, you're not the average user). Friction forged steel is another development of which we'll see more.

Sal, you might as well give in and order some cruwear or lescowear ( vascowear) and some T1 and get it over with ( can I have the first vascowear knife or T1 blade please? :) )

We need tungsten& moly carbides instead of ( as thom brogan put it) "those big devil worshiping vanadium carbides", though with diamond wheels you should be able to cut some S125V knives. Devil worshiping carbides or not I'd try it. :D . No sharpening for long periods of time which people will come to expect, or demand even. Of course that means selling them diamond sharpeners for when they do finally have to sharpen it.

That's the kind of new blades that will be popular. Tungsten alloys which aren't going to chip could work too in knives.Gems stones will never take the place of steel or alloys in knives other than speciality tools for pathology etc. Joe
 
Progress in ingredients will continue to accelerate with the approximate rate of all other technologies. We are already beginning to see steels that are breaking the bonds of the "rules" that ingredient charts dictate. This will continue; the will continue to blur in expected results vs. reality.

Liner locks will still be used, especially on "art" knives.
 
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