Mighty Oak by Imperial

I believe the stainless steel used by imperial was a form of 440A while the carbon steel 1055.

What I know for sure is that all my imperial blades easily take a great edge.

 

Btw I was speaking about imperial knives in general.
I only have two imperial kitchen knives and the steel seems the same as what they used in their folders.

Imperial was a company of low cost " got it where it matters most " knives, their knives were not fancy but the blades are thin and slicy and they did a good job treating the steels they used.

 

Was Imperial part of Schrade? IIRC, Schrade used to use 1084 and I still have some that was bought from their bankruptcy sale by Aldo.

 

Imperial was owned by Schrade ( the companies became Imperial schrade in 1977 or so ).
The knives really had no crossover though, so while Im pretty sure Schrade used 1095 Imperial definately didn't.
My carbon steel Imperials are way easier to sharpen than any of my old timers

 

I still have like 30 sticks of 1 x 1/4 1084 that supposedly came from Schrade. It gets very black when you etch it.

 

I've always been told Schrade used 1095.

 

And I was told what Aldo got post bankruptcy/liquidation. They may have used both. Remember that any Schrade knife made after 2004 is not a Schrade. It's a Taylor/Battenfield-Smith and Wesson Holdings and it's made in China.

 

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Of course ( unless it's a left over blade assembled by someone who bought a bunch of them )