Photos Show your low end steel :)

[Alberta Ed]

My Old Hic is definitely one of my duller knives, but it still works in the kitchen. The only time I have come across truly awful steel is at vacation rentals, which have the cheapest possible kitchen knives. Yet people still get by for a few days with them.

Have to agree the cutlery at vacation rentals is invariably crap, so I always take my own.

 

[Wolverine666]

The materials may not be high end but I still really like the knife.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

Crag,

Really diggin' this. Great blade shape and handle design. Well done

I'm being "pressured" from some of the guy's into start making/offering for sale here... I'm just finalizing some stuff and will be getting a craftsman membership soon....

So......... Maybe some day you too could enjoy one just like it? Haha

 

[Greggy]

2Cr in all its 99 cent per knife glory!!! Took 'em to the whetstones last night and they cut like champs.

 

[dogstar]

These are all the Buck knives I own (444, 309). Next purchase is gonna be a Buck!

 

[Daniel W]

My collection of low end steel but they are all sharp as heck and the home brews hold a heck of an edgeView attachment 1982976

 

[bigsurbob]

440C
recycled pic

 

[Andy the Aussie]

.....guessing it's 440 something..... bought it new in the 80s and it has dressed more deer than many will see in a lifetime (till 2012 it was what I took on every hunt). It is still always in my bag and honestly if someone said that is all you can use I would not shed a tear. I have other knives in gaucci steels I of course like better now but I NEVER felt under prepared.

 

[strategy9]

 

[Deino]

I'm not American, but their tools are just good. Gerber, Leatherman, Case and Buck, the American tradesman and huntsman icons. 420HC all the way.

 

[Kirk Raptor]

Sandvik 14C28N

 

[Gary W. Graley]

1066 carbon steel
I sharpened it up to a very keen edge!

G2

 

[Deino]

Here are some of my fixed blades.
The mora companion stainless is obvious 12C27.
My BPS knife is before they add the "Made in Ukraine" laser print on the blade, the spine has rough finish instead of smooth finish, easy to rust. However, it was cheaper back then. 1066, aka 65G or 65Mn, is a very cheap common steel used in Eastern Europe. Mine is low V grind (scandi), which honestly has bad cutting performance, unlike Gary W. Graley 's BPS full flat grind above.
The Kizlyar is in AUS-8.

I have a few other cheap knives, but they are made by cheap labours and not exactly cheap and low end materials.

 

[Another Shepherd]

I'll just put this video here while I try to find time to take some photos of my own knives.

 

[ShaiHulud]

I don't feel like going to my kitchen and taking pictures of my utensils

 

[dogstar]

How about some 1055 from Cold Steel? Mid carbon steel at its finest!

 

[coolbreezy37]

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[Knives&Lint]

 

[SomebodySomewhere]

Dang, that is style. Nice pics, too.

 

[Knives&Lint]

Dang, that is style. Nice pics, too.

Thanks brother!