Making of a Sheffield knife video

[GHEzell]

Whale oil - I don't know if it's still available but there was a thread on Swordforum with a member of the Wilkinson family. As I remember they used 1095 and quenched in whale oil into the 1940s.

Thanks for that Mete, I knew they used 1095 (or a steel roughly equivalent to it), but not the quenching medium...
I have to wonder about the smell of hot steel hitting whale oil, though...