Spyderco H1 or H2?

[hogflats]

I Spyderco H2 as good as H1 in there salt 2 knife. Can't seem to find any salt 2 in H1.

 

[Mk-211]

H2 is the replacement for H1.

H2 Steel - H1 the sequel - Knife Steel Nerds

H2 is a newly announced steel for Spyderco knives that replaces the previous H1 steel. How do the two steels compare?

knifesteelnerds.com

 

[Steely_Gunz]

I haven't seen any functional difference between the two. H1 and H2, for me, are steels used for a knife that I plan on using in and around salt water without much if any care.

Think a beach knife, fishing knife, or if I plan on opening a lot of corrosive chemicals directly.

Both have been mostly OK in terms of edge retention and all of them have been 100% in terms of see staining. I wouldn't be able to tell H1 from H2 if they weren't laser etched

 

[Dagoth_Blur]

I would lean towards lc200n if possible. It's basically aebl on steroids with no chance of rusting.

 

[Wowbagger]

I would lean towards lc200n if possible. It's basically aebl on steroids with no chance of rusting.

This

H2 is at least as good/same as H1
Fooling around I took a recently made (< a year ago) H2 Spyderco Salt 2 and thinned and reprofiled the heck out of the blade ~ 1.8mm at the spine ~ 10 thou behind the edge ~12 deg per side. It held up good enough considering this is H series steel.

In other words it did not roll over cutting quadruple wall card board.
It did not break or chip (like that would happen ) this is a pretty tough steel but not particularly hard. I just looked up in Larrin's book it tops out at 60HRC or less. Don't believe all the old / past posts about work hardening from grinding to 65 hrc much of that was hearsay and or poor hardness testing technique due to angled surfaces presented to the tester's point , or some such.

In any case just ask / see Dr. Larrin Thomas's high level science investigation of the hardness / grinding etc.

If you have not read how they harden/toughen it , it is worth reading about it on Larrin's site . . . I think that is where I saw it (not in one of his books I just looked).
Rather than all the heating and quenching business other steel alloys go through they take the H series in like 6mm thickness and roll the living crap out of it , COLD, until it is about 3mm thick ! ! ! !
[ that was only four exclamation points ; still somewhat sane ]

PS : yeah , like Mk-211 posted !
Follow the link about H1 for cold rolling.
sorry . . .