I've Got a New Knife Coming

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Spyder59

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I'm going to post pics here when it gets delivered. It's going to be a fixed blade. I don't edc a fixed blade very often, but I want to, and I am anticipating a big change regarding this practice. I also want you to post your pics of new knives here with your initial brief impressions, positive or negative. That's what I'm going to do. So when my new knife gets here, hopefully within the next couple of days, I'll be posting up. You may ask why not wait until the knife gets here? Well, this helps me work out, share, and experience mine and other peoples excitement and anticipation of our new toys. Until then please contribute your experiences. Oh, and I am purposely not telling you what it is yet. It's a surpriiiiiiiiiiissse. [emoji41] I hope you don't think this is silly, but I can't help it. Hint: It has CPM20CV steel. What can you tell me about this steel.
 
Cpm 20cv is really good stuff, I think that's like a US copy of m390, though I've read that m390 was held to a slightly higher quality in its manufacturing phase.
 
CPM-20cv

It's like m390 (a Bohler-Uddeholm PM steel)

Litterally, just like it. It's exactly the same recipe, but made and wrapped in a pretty Crucible package.
 
strategy9 said:
CPM-20cv

It's like m390 (a Bohler-Uddeholm PM steel)

Litterally, just like it. It's exactly the same recipe, but made and wrapped in a pretty Crucible package.
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Yes, I heard someone say it's the chemical twin, whatever that means, because their are a lot of other variables at play when it comes to the properties of steel.
 
Thinking about using this new knife for the edc challenge. I'm supposed to get it day after tomorrow, Monday. I will say however it is a Bark River. They have so many cool knives that it was really difficult to choose. I'll update with pics when it arrives.
 
Spyder59 said:
Yes, I heard someone say it's the chemical twin, whatever that means, because their are a lot of other variables at play when it comes to the properties of steel.
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Yes. Metallurgically speaking, they have the same ingredients, in the same ratios, and both made using virtually the same PM (powder metallurgy) technology.

The differences will be from one manufacturing plant to another, techniques, tricks of the trade, maybe minute differences in alloying elements due to where they are mined, sourced, imported from... Like say if you and I both made the exact same cake from the same ingredients, but my milk and eggs came from PA, yours came from CA, maybe we used different pans, maybe one used a slight bit more oil, or flour, and our stoves were slightly held to different tolerances, end of the day, we'd still have pretty much the exact same cake.
 
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