Steels for Throwing

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I don't know if this is the best place to ask this, but I'm trying to figure out if s30/35/60/90/110v are too brittle to be thrown into wood.

If anyone has any insight or experience, I'd appreciate it!
 
I wouldn't use any of those steels personally. With the right Heat treating any steel could be used, but the price of the steel and the heat treating required wouldn't really be worth it in terms of the quality you could get out of it, instead of throwing it which really beats the hell out of it. Think about it this way, those are cutlery steels, there isn't much cutting going on with most dedicated throwers.
 
carbon steels are the common steels used in throwing knvies. Like Blackeather has said, it is not worth paying top-dollar for an expensive steel on a knife that could be hitting rocks. Carbon steel beats these steals in terms of toughness, these steals were designed to have incredible edge retention. I would say that they could be thrown but they may snap after consistent use, as these steals are normally heated to a high rockwell hardness than a throwing knife. I am not sure on there performance when heated at a lower rockwell though.


There is a thread of a man throwing an esee junglas for fun (and an esee6) and the esee's held up wonderfully even with a high heat treat. I would say that it could take some damage but nowhere near the amount that a throwing knife copes with.
 
I'd almost have to say IF you really wanted to get a high end knife that could be thrown without damage, maybe a Busse with that INFI stuff would be your best bet, right?
 
Here's a bussekin flying - Swamp Rat Rodent 9, a very well balanced knife for throwing (if a bit large). It's SR-101, a modified 52100 ball bearing steel, ~1% carbon. It can handle the impacts and then some, especially given the edge geometry - it's a stout blade.

[video=youtube;iCphmLgvaV4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCphmLgvaV4[/video]
 
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