MA5MV Steel?

[Nomad333]

I found a nice looking knife, only thing is that I've never heard of the steel before.
It's a Mercury Pianure Hunting and Survival knife.
Never heard of them or MA5MV steel before.
Can anyone tell me stuff about this?

 

[The Mastiff]

http://www.metallvertrieb.com/uploads/katalog/WDB/martensitische/1.4028-Englisch.pdf

As you can see it's a stainless steel with some similarities to aus6a, or more correctly, is in that class of steels. . I've never tried it so I can't comment on it's performance.

 

[Nomad333]

Noone else has any experience

 

[Morales]

MA5MV ist just a proprietary name for the 1.4116, which is a well-known steel. It is a basic steel, nothing special about it, used mainly for kitchen knives. With a good heattreatment it is easy to sharpen, gets quite sharp and has great rust resistance.

 

[knarfeng]

MA5MV ist just a proprietary name for the 1.4116, which is a well-known steel. It is a basic steel, nothing special about it, used mainly for kitchen knives. With a good heattreatment it is easy to sharpen, gets quite sharp and has great rust resistance.

And 1.4116 is similar in performance to 420HC.

 

[DennisStrickland]

1.4116 is krupp alloy & if the mainstream is similar to the cold steel in my kitchen i certainly do'nt find this stuff interesting. if you give it an angry glance it goes dull.

 

[Gator97]

1.4116 is W-Nr standard name and X50CrMoV15 is the DIN standard name of the same steel.
Full or manufacturer(Ugine & Alz) name of the steel is Uginox MA5MV.
Basically it's the same steel used in most mainstream German knives, Henckels, Wusthof. Messermeister uses slightly different X55CrMoV15, although in practice it's not that much differnet -
X50CrMoV15 vs. X55CrMoV15 steel composition comparison.

 

[Nomad333]

Okay then.
Has anyone heard of mercury knives?

 

[knarfeng]

Okay then.
Has anyone heard of mercury knives?

Mercury knives, an Italian company that started in 1946.
I've never tried one, so I cannot comment on the quality.

http://www.mercurycut.it/jump/fast/k/en/eur/index/mm/default