One knife?

[JustinFournier]

using a high carbon bit allows the use of milder steel the rest of the head- saves money and time and helps avoid failures. A lot of time those decisions are purely process driven

The way they do it by hand and the amount of time it takes (in the video of their production process) to forge weld the second steel in there vs just using one piece, and the premium price I don’t understand how complicating the process and increasing the amount of time it takes would lower cost.

From their website:

“Two kinds of steel are used when crafting John Neeman’s laminated steel axes and knives. Blades of tools are made from high carbon content instrument steel. This material possesses fine resistance to wear, tenacity and hardness (58-59 HRC). While the back part of axes and back parts of knives are made from low content carbon steel that provides elasticity and protects from cracking the back parts of an axe.”

Seems to me it’s done for increased performance. As I don’t have anything from Liam to compare to, I can’t say there is a real world difference between the two in person. Geometry and the wood in question are going to make a huge difference. I can say my Autine forest axe holds an edge better then my GB small forest axe. I’ve used both since 2013.

 

[Lorien]

since this is a thread about knives in particular, I'ma bow out of this conversation regarding axes. No offense