"Tactical"-style folders with carbon-steel blades?

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cypselus

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The title says it all: Does anyone make a good-quality (but not necessarily custom - I'd like to stay under $250) tactical-style folder with a carbon-steel blade? Preferably in something like A-2. I know BM made some D2 knives a while back, but I'm not so interested in those.

Thanks
 
those knifes have TITANIUM blades, thats a long ways from carbon steel. I remember reading other than not rusting and not showing up on detection devices ti blades aren't very good. the hardness just isn't there. ok I see some have steel blades, the first ad didn't. But is that right ti isn't all that great for a blade?
 
jill jackson said:
those knifes have TITANIUM blades, thats a long ways from carbon steel. I remember reading other than not rusting and not showing up on detection devices ti blades aren't very good. the hardness just isn't there.
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Veleno is right, there is an A2 version too.
 
and the price is a bit too high, I'm afraid. Does anyone know of any others? It doesn't have to be A2, necessarily, but carbon steel in any event.
 
Dunno what you want to spend, but the swordmaker Tinker Pierce makes some tactical folders, all with carbon blades.
 
This has always bothered me ,why use crap stainless when good cheap carbon steel is available. When a carbon steel is coated it is not in danger of rusting.
Bucks used to have carbon blades and there are a couple of oldtimer style knives that still do. I think it is an idea who's time has come.
 
Depending on what you call tactical , a Benchmade 710 in D2 or M2 should do it for ya , their might be some debate about D2 , dut M2 is deffinatly non stainless .

Chris
 
I hate the appellation "tactical" attached to everything, hence the quotation marks. Think of it as shorthand for a one-hand-opening, pocket-clipped lockblade. Much easier to say and write, despite the mall-ninja connotations.

The 710 sounds good. Too bad they don't make it in M2 anymore. Maybe someone has a plain-edge version he'd like to sell.
 
cypselus said:
The title says it all: Does anyone make a good-quality (but not necessarily custom - I'd like to stay under $250) tactical-style folder with a carbon-steel blade? Preferably in something like A-2. I know BM made some D2 knives a while back, but I'm not so interested in those.

Thanks
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You snub your nose at D2 and even prefer A2 over D2? Please explain.
 
You snub your nose at D2 and even prefer A2 over D2? Please explain.
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Put it down to ease and fineness of sharpening along with a degree of innate perversity on my part that causes me to relish using 80-year old tool steel as opposed to some variety of new-fangled powder metallurgy Japanese uberstahl. I've read too that D2 is somewhat brittle. I know Bladeforumsites take their steels seriously, and I have no desire to start a fight. :)
 
cypselus said:
Put it down to ease and fineness of sharpening along with a degree of innate perversity on my part that causes me to relish using 80-year old tool steel as opposed to some variety of new-fangled powder metallurgy Japanese uberstahl. I've read too that D2 is somewhat brittle. I know Bladeforumsites take their steels seriously, and I have no desire to start a fight. :)
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No fight from me...just curious.

D2 has been around for quite sometime and is surely not considered "new-fangled" in any way. As far as reading that it is brittle in one place and therefore preventing yourself the pleasure of actually using a finely made D2 piece of cutlery, I might suggest you ask the forum their opinion of the steel. You also might ask the most famous knifemakers in the US why they use more D2 than any other steel. A knifemaker that's been at it for about 40 years keep coming to mind....ah yes, Bob Dozier. I'm sure he'd be happy to expound on the virtures of D2. Quite frankly, I love the stuff and have NEVER had one bit of problem with it.

Regards
 
I've played with both Custom and factory D2 , good stuff . Never had any problems with Benchmade's D2 . Then again I'm no steel snob , seems to me , it's more about ergonomics and geometry .

Chris
 
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