INFI steel comparison

Sure there is something out there like INFI.
Germans used it for plane-parts in WO2!
Anyway, nitrogen can be added to a steel. This is called gas-nitrating, I've seen them do it a lot with the gear-tooth-wheels-block (the thing with which you shift gear in a car).
The only problem is the heat-treath. Busse clearly figured out how to make the nitrogen in the steel work. If I could heat-treath it myself, I might get a load of steel and try it out, but I don't have this stuff.
Besides, I am for from convinced of the magical capabilities of INFI. HK makes gun barrels from it, Böker uses it under the name X-15. They used to make plain-parts from it, which now have been replaced by stellite 6K or even talonite.
I think busse optimized the heat-treath, bladeshape and blade profile. And off course, the way they sharpen their knives. But I am convinced, that a 52100 blade, made excactly the same way, and heat-treathed by Ed Fowler, cuts much better, and is overall much better except in corrosion-resistance.

greetz, Bart.


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