S35vn blade steel

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Hey guys I recently purchased a ZT 0452CF in S35VN steel and from what I can find it seems like an great steel for my needs. But I want to know a little more about the metallurgy of the steel. So is there anybody out there who can give me a little more detail on what it's like. Is it more harder like S30V or S90V or is it more wear resistant like a stainless steel? Like I said probably not such a big deal and probably going to be more than adiquate for my uses but I'm just curious on how quality the steel is after making what to me is a big purchase like this thanks.
 
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its really a great steel. its not the best by any means, but what steel is the best? its the most common steel now, and thats a good thing.

http://www.zknives.com/knives/articles/knifesteelfaq.shtml

http://www.zknives.com/knives/steels/cpm_s35vn.shtml

CPM S35VN(Crucible) - Crucible CPM steel. Developed in 2009. As I understand it is an evolution of CPM S30V steel. CPM S35VN has Niobium and Nitrogen in it, unlike CPM S30V steel. Currently it is quite popular with custom makers and several high end production knife companies use it including Spyderco, Rick Hinderer, Spartan Blades, Chris Reeve and many others. Overall, CPM S35VN is a bit tougher alloy compared with CPM S30V steel, according to Crucible documentation toughness increase was 15%-20%. CPM S35VN is more resistant to chipping as well. According to the same document from Crucible, there was no decrease in wear resistance, but as field reports indicate, CPM S35VN edge holding on abrasive materials including cardboard and rope is worse than that of the CPM S30V steel. Therefore, for the knives optimized purely for edge holding, and requiring good abrasive wear resistance, CPM S30V steel is still a better choice.
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A good way to think about S35VN is in terms of balance. There are steels that have higher performance in any given category over S35VN, i.e. edge retention, resharpenability, corrosion resistance, toughness, wear resistance, etc. There going to be a number of steels that will perform better in any of those individual categories over S35VN. However there are very few steels that can balance high performance and all those characteristics as well as S35VN does, except for third-generation powder metallurgy steels like M390, CTS 204P, CPM 20CV, etc.
 
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