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1095 is a published specification and it's one of the simplest modern tool steels available. Unless a manufacturer was out of spec the heat treating wouldn't vary enough from one outfit to another. Of course, that may not be the case with some high alloy steels, but with most steels they are all held within specifications so that industry can switch between manufacturers at will without retooling. It would be kind of hard to convince a lathe bit producer to buy 1095 from outfit A when they would have to rework their heat treating process and get no material benefit over outfit B.
 
AcridSaint said:
1095 is a published specification and it's one of the simplest modern tool steels available. Unless a manufacturer was out of spec the heat treating wouldn't vary enough from one outfit to another. Of course, that may not be the case with some high alloy steels, but with most steels they are all held within specifications so that industry can switch between manufacturers at will without retooling. It would be kind of hard to convince a lathe bit producer to buy 1095 from outfit A when they would have to rework their heat treating process and get no material benefit over outfit B.
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..hm. good point. I think I mixed up my thinking when I replied/questioned. ..thanks for the info tho.
 
I don't make a LOT of knives, but I make more springs than most people-hundreds of them. I use 1095 almost exclusively. I have never had one fail. That tells me as much as any laboratory testing.
 
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