Kershaw BOA with S30V... WHY?!!

[Krull]

Really? I always supposed S60V is better then new S30V... Could you educate me a little bit, please? Maybe I'm worry by misunderstood, and I received better knife then I expected?
Thanks!

Someone here on bladeforums said S60V is 440V with (I think) some small differences,I don't like 440V because it's super-hard which means-BRITTLE! I remember reading in Tac Knives that a 440V knife would edge chip if flexed on a on a brass rod all I can say: NO-THANK-YOU!

 

[nozh2002]

Someone here on bladeforums said S60V is 440V with (I think) some small differences,I don't like 440V because it's super-hard which means-BRITTLE! I remember reading in Tac Knives that a 440V knife would edge chip if flexed on a on a brass rod all I can say: NO-THANK-YOU!

Cliff Stamp sad once that same knife with same tester may sometimes pass sometimes does not pass brass rod test. Now Boa and other knives like this are not for fencing - I never hear any report of broken CPM S60V blades. And also nobody done brass test with CPM S30V - I doubt it will overperform A2 or 52100.

If Kershaw stop making Boa and Avalanche with CPM S60V - then we do not have superhard steel to choose anymore, unfortunately...

Thanks, Vassili.

 

[JoHnYKwSt]

My opinion is that more wear resistance is a step in the wrong direction. I agree with a previous poster that we do not need more wear resistance. Not enough emphasis is put on sharpening ease, the very reason why so many people prefer VG-10 to S30V. ZDP-189 seems to be going in the right direction--greater emphasis on hardness with chromium carbides rather than vanadium which makes for an easier to sharpen blade.