Only one carbon and one stainless for the rest of your life, what are you choosing?

[craytab]

Carbon: 3v
Stainless: S35vn
Neither: H1

 

[Hickory n steel]

If anyone could tell me what these are made of I could answer the question for sure.


Well almost, the problem is in the traditional realm it's often simply about the knives and not what they're made of.
Can't live without Buck knives and cant live without Victorinox.
There's no choice with Vic not that I feel the need for anything else, but with Buck there is though I cant afford to buy everything in 5160 if it was available for every single model I love.

 

[schwep]

Reading the title I was afraid you were talking about knives, not steel types !

Carbon steel: 80CrV2
Stainless: 12C27

I would miss my Hultafors blades in SK5 though.

 

[primecut]

My choices are:

Carbon - 4V
Stainless - M390

 

[K33ncutter]

I have a fixed blade in 3V with a Bos heat treat. I’ll take that and M390.

 

[Ben Dover]

0170-6
S90V

 

[Black Oak Bladeworks]

CPM3V
VG10 for stainless.

 

[Smiling]

If I say D2 will count as carbon or stainless?

 

[fielder]

Stainless Aeb-l.
Carbon Delta 3v.

 

[Razor]

Carbon- 52100
Stainless- BG-42, M390

 

[elde66]

LC200N
M4

 

[jonnieb27]

M

LC200N
M4

M390
M4

 

[Fir Na Tine]

LC200N
3V
Honorable mention to S7 if my life depended on it and had to have a high carbon steel.

 

[kobold]

Maxamet/MagnaCut

 

[ferider]

I’ll get two CPM Cruwear knives, a folder and a fixed.

 

[PQGK]

440C or Aus8
Not as good and 154cm up, but easier to sharpen

 

[K.O.D.]

Stainless: 3Cr13Mov, or maybe Rostfrei, perhaps surgical stainless
Carbon: Chinese D2

 

[PNWhovian]

3V(Infi if I couldn’t get 3V)
S35VN

 

[qflite]

VG-10 and D2. Both no nonsense, proven steels.

 

[Chuck_Nunface]

M4 and s90v