Looking for steel help

[TLR]

Anyone heard of F3000 tool steel from Germany? Any info, is it worth using for a blade?

I was given several large paper/guillotine blades from a friend who works for a newspaper.

The first is supposedly D2 although I'm not positive the woman on the phone wasn't just telling me what I wanted to hear to get rid of me.

The second has a carburized edge and the body is listed as F3000 german tool steel. So far google searches haven't really turned anything up. Trying to decide if it has any usefulness for blades.

Thanks for any insight or help.

 

[dluxhvac]

I live on the border to Germany and I have never heard of it. If you have a smart phone look for a app called ( knife steel composition chart ) it is loaded with steel info and you can search for any steel by name or country.

 

[samuraistuart]

I am not familiar with that steel myself, either. There is, of course, or should I say "there was", F3 tool steel. I've don't think you can get it anywhere in bar stock form, which is a huge shame. F2 and F3 steels would go over very very well with the kitchen knife community. Regardless, my guess is that F3000 is very high carbon tungsten tool steel. If that is the case....yes it would make an excellent slicing type of blade. LOTS of carbon and LOTS of tungsten. Again....just a guess going by F2 and F3 steels.

F2. Carbon 1.3 Cr .3 W 3.5 V .25 Mn .3
F3. Carbon 1.25 Cr .75 W 3.5