Sebbie, what steel?

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EXFATBOY

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I just bought a used large reg Sebenza with no papers or box. Is there a way to tell the age/steel etc of this by sight alone? Is it hidden and revealed by stripping it?
I should receive it Tuesday so I'm wishing my life away at the moment!
 
IIRC, If you strip it, and there's an 'S' on the blade, then it's S30V, otherwise BG-42. If it's really old, ATS-34. And, I believe some early ones did go out with S30V, but without the 'S' on the blade.
 
You may also be able to go by the date on the inside of the scales.
 
If it says " C 97" inside the scales of a large regular Sebenza, what would you judge that to be?

ATS34 or BG42?
 
From Anne at CRK, very informative.

"The blade on your Sebenza must be BG42 - we changed from ATS 34 to BG42 in October 1996 and from BG42 to S30V in January 2002. The A99 marking on your handle slabs indicates that they were of the first batch of handles machined in 1999"

This was helpful to me, hope it works for you too!
 
EXFATBOY said:
From Anne at CRK, very informative.

"The blade on your Sebenza must be BG42 - we changed from ATS 34 to BG42 in October 1996 and from BG42 to S30V in January 2002. The A99 marking on your handle slabs indicates that they were of the first batch of handles machined in 1999"

This was helpful to me, hope it works for you too!
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Thank you. That was helpful. Looks like mine was the 3rd batch of BG42 done in 1997. I was hoping it was BG42, although all the possible steels are excellent.
 
I was also pleased to find it was BG42. Try do a search on "BG42" and find out what an incredible steel this is. Intended originally for bearing cases on jet engine thrust vectoring components.
So I think you can take "hard" and "temperature stable" for granted then!
 
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