Mystery steel

[VTguy]

So my cousin just got one of the Henckels Cermax knives and we can't find exactly what steel it is made of just that it is a powder made steel, anyone know?

 

[VTguy]

Haha not a single one huh, well me niether

 

[JGarth]

Did you try doing GOOGLE searches on it.

 

[cybrok]

According to their website: "Special MicroCarbide Powder Steel "

So what I understand is that it's made from steel powder, like s30v for example, but it contains carbides. That's all they want you to know.

 

[VTguy]

yeah thats all I could get off the internet, after googling it

 

[Walt-FL]

It's a high carbon steel (0.96% to 2% carbon and high manganese content), molten, ground into powder, and compacted under high pressure. Don't ask me what the exact specs are, manufacturers come up with new phantasy names every day (INFI, etc.), if you look deeper in to it you'll see it's just steel. I'd really like to do a lab analysis on all of them, if it wasn't so expensive. The steel is, however, hard (!), somewhere over 64 rockwell, you'll probably need a diamond stone to resharpen it. Can't go wrong with Henckels either, they surely know what they are doing.

 

[cybrok]

ground into powder

Not exactly true.

Steel is melted, then they let a small "fillet" flow and throw a gas/water spray on it, wich makes those small balls of steel, as big as flour.

What is great with it is that you can make "out of equilibrium" mixes.

Powder metallurgy is really interresting But you can't make damascus out of it however.