Is This a Species of W-2?

[MKP]

C = 0.7; V = 0.13. The carbon seems a bit low.

http://www.mehr-als-werkzeug.de/product/719625/Japanese-Vanadium-Round-Bar.htm

Edit: Before anyone advise me on using simpler steel such as Aldo 1084; I will say that I have no plan to do anything. My question is purely academic curiosity.

 

[jdm61]

No. W2 is a hypereutectoid (sp?) steel. That stuff is more like 1070 with a little bit of V added assuming it doesn't have any more alloying elements other than manganese.

 

[hammerfall]

10xx type of the japanese version has 0.1~0.2%v. if i remembered right there was a new law here in china a few years ago, ordered that all the plain carbon constructional steel produced in after 2005 should be added by 0.1%~0.2%v.

 

[Danbo]

Not high enough Carbon to qualify as W2. W2 Carbon ranges from .85-1.3, I believe.

That would make good knives, though; and, I'd like to have some.