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Chameleonbear said:
I have a question, I'm not sure if it is worth starting a thread for it or not so I'll just ask it here...

Why the Carbon over Stainless? Beckers are the only carbon blades I have. And while I do <3 my Beckers, why are they all carbon and not stainless? Is there some property to the carbon that stainless doesn't have?
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Edge retention vs hardness vs cost. 1095 is soft enough to take a beating without breaking, hard enough to hold a good edge, and cheap enough to mass produce at low cost. Stainless raises the price dramatically and you get one or the other when it comes to hardness with stainless in my experience, a blade that can't hold an edge worth a damn or a knife that is super hard but too brittle for a beating.
 
clich said:
Edge retention vs hardness vs cost. 1095 is soft enough to take a beating without breaking, hard enough to hold a good edge, and cheap enough to mass produce at low cost. Stainless raises the price dramatically and you get one or the other when it comes to hardness with stainless in my experience, a blade that can't hold an edge worth a damn or a knife that is super hard but too brittle for a beating.
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That makes sense... I knew there was some reason, I just didn't know and figured someone here would know. I had a feeling cost would have something to do with it.
 
Chameleonbear said:
I have a question, I'm not sure if it is worth starting a thread for it or not so I'll just ask it here...

Why the Carbon over Stainless? Beckers are the only carbon blades I have. And while I do <3 my Beckers, why are they all carbon and not stainless? Is there some property to the carbon that stainless doesn't have?
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in order to get performance parity to a carbon steel in edge retention, toughness, wear resistance, and lack of brittleness, stainless steels cost more -- raw materials, more expensive tooling (or more frequent replacement of cutters & abrasives), and the extra time in heat treat.
for example, a bar of 3/16" 1.25" 1095 48" long can be found in the $16.50 price range.
3/16 x 1.25 x 36" D2 $39, CPM D2 $45, S30V $57 --- for the S30V, that's roughly 4 times the material cost, plus all the increased tooling, labor, & HT costs.
 
A buddy from work just gave me a sweet piece of scrap black walnut :) It's about 9 inches long 3 inches wide and almost 2 inches thick. I have a few plans for this chunk, unfortunately I won't have any left over for becker handles :(
 
I saw the insulting remarks, and really think you guys are being mean, drilling the point and all. It's a heart wrenching thing to be called a tool.

EDIT: I realized I will be flamed... but ahh, screw it.
 
Murphnuge said:
A finely honed tool of hate and discontent to be used against enemies of freedom. Thanks for the recognition Moose!
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You are most welcome. If figured you would get it, but the others..........

they thought I was in insultin' ya.

Moose
 
I'm seriously considering dropping double the money to get a machax right now
 
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