What steel are Queen Doctor's knives?

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stevekt

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I've seen some conflicting descriptions on the Queen Doctor's knives. Some ads say there are 420HC while others say they are D2. Which is it? Do they come in both steels? Does it depend on the scales, saptula vs. pen blade, or date of build?
 
They are 420HC, I have heard that some were made where the main blade was D2 and the spatula blade was 420HC, but I've not seen one that had the "PH-D2" on the main blade.
 
Okay thanks. I suspect some online retailers copied and pasted a generic Queen description. I've seen some ads that have D2 in the title and 420HC in the descripion!

Anyway, I'm going to order a cocobolo with pen blade. I like Queen D2 but 420hc means I won't have to go through the "Queen D2 New Knife Reprofiling Ritual".
 
I have some in ATS-34, 420HC and D2. The D2 and ATS are "limited editions" and the 420 examples are regular production.
 
Bastid, what scales are on the D2 and ATS-34? What is the secondary blade, pen, spatula, none?
 
The ATS-34 is brown worm groved jigged bone knife with a pen blade made in 1998.

I have two bone-stag both with pen blades one in D2 the other in 420.
 
The only Queens I have with spatulas are pearls. They are all 420HC.
 
I got my cocobolo Doctor's Knife in the mail yesterday! It's really nice but the "barb" on the small pen blade is pointy and sharp. Makes it really annoying to use the main blade as the barb is right where my index fingertip goes.

A bit of filing with a ceramic stone helped but I do wish Queen would round off some of their corners a bit. My Country Cousin also has a really sharp barb while my similarly styled Case Sodbuster Jr. has smooth rounded corners.
 
Let me guess was Knife Center a culprit? Well a quick look shows D2 in one of their descriptions of a Queens Doctor. They have good prices but can’t be trusted on the descriptions.
 
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