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On a limited wood I would take the BG-42 anyday. The BG-42 blade will have a much nicer finish in the polished hollow grind. S30V doesn't polish worth a #@*!
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Purchase Choice: BG-42 or S-30V
- Thread starter deserthawk748
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My vote is for BG-42 I've used it for the last 3 to 4 years and I'm sold on it, But I have to admit S30V does hold it's own when it come to edge retention and toughness. Id love to test out a fixed blade with S3V and see how well it holds up in terms of toughness, Ive herd some good reports on S3V.
sorry,
but there's still no answer to the original question, which is essential to many of us prospective buyers... we've seen a vote on preferences, but little reasoned consideration of the pro and cons... for me, perhaps naively, the much higher Rockwell grade is decidedly more attractive, so while I admit that S30V may be the better steel, I wonder why the old BG-42 model shouldn't be superior if one has that feature at heart... collecting-wise, I wouldn't be interested in an outdated model, but what delights me in a blade is the hardness/sharpness more than the toughness (if you need toughness, you need a fb, in my view) , so in spite of being outdated, and ditched by Chris, the BG42 sounds better to me...
or is that a misconception? any reasoned analyses to that out there?
tristram
but there's still no answer to the original question, which is essential to many of us prospective buyers... we've seen a vote on preferences, but little reasoned consideration of the pro and cons... for me, perhaps naively, the much higher Rockwell grade is decidedly more attractive, so while I admit that S30V may be the better steel, I wonder why the old BG-42 model shouldn't be superior if one has that feature at heart... collecting-wise, I wouldn't be interested in an outdated model, but what delights me in a blade is the hardness/sharpness more than the toughness (if you need toughness, you need a fb, in my view) , so in spite of being outdated, and ditched by Chris, the BG42 sounds better to me...
or is that a misconception? any reasoned analyses to that out there?
tristram
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S30V is supposed to be more corrosion resistant than BG-42. I think investment wise, go BG-42. The supply of BG-42 will dwindle and those that value it may have to pay a premium to get a private party to part with a knife that can't be replaced. In my experience, both steels are very good and I would hardly refer to a BG-42 Sebenza as "outdated". I prefer as a using knife the S30V because it is a bit easier sharpen and it is a steel that was made solely for the knife industry. I also read somewhere that Reeve helped CPM develope S30V. 
