Tool Steel

Walt2

Walt2

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I have a question for the makers who have been around for a good while. Which tool steel would you think this description fits: "chrome vanadium tool steel". I was told that a maker who is deceased described the steel he used in this manner. Thanks
 
Case knife company calls their carbon steel (non-stainless) by this name. This is the only reference I have ever heard of.
 
D2 also has Mo. L2 would fit. For an alloy steel it would be the 61xx series.
 
Could be 6150, but 6195 used to be used a lot for knife blades. I wish it (6195) was still available.
 
This maker has been deceased for several years. I have only seen one of his knives several years ago and that particular knife did not look like it was D2.
Wrong color. A person who owned two of his knives says that he called the steel "chrome vanadium tool steel" when he was asked what it was.
 
Well, I doubt I'd be of any help either way, but if you want to know what kind of steel this guy used, it would probably be easier to tell us his name. Maybe somebody around here is familiar with his work.
 
Email me at rdusek [at] texas [dot] net. I don't have the answer to your question but I do have contact info for Sammie Fischer, Cylde's son (who makes some fine knives himself.) I don't know if he'll know either but it's worth asking.

My dad's family is from Victoria and my dad knew Clyde in high school. If you talk to many folks, you'll find that almost everyone in Texas in that age bracket knew Clyde from somewhere or other.

rmd
 
I have also heard that Case's CV was 50100. 6150 would fit that description, as well, and I have seen allen wrenches in the Tractor Supply Co. catalog advertised as "6150 Chromium Vanadium tool steel".

Todd
 
At least some of Clyde Fischer's knives were (if memory serves) O-1.
 
Chrome -Vanadium steel would be 61XX series but these fall into the family of carbon or alloy steels. Chrome -Vanadium "tool steels" is a whole new ball game but D2would be the first to come to mind for a knife steel.
 
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