KnifeSteelNerds: How to Heat Treat Nickel Knife Steels
Knife steels with significant nickel additions are surprisingly rare, though there are a few key steels, especially “low...
Knife Steel Nerds
Knife Steel Nerds: What is M390MK Knife Steel?
Microtech announced that they would begin using M390MK steel in an Instagram post on January 14, 2023 [1]....
Knife Steel Nerds: Metallurgist Juha Perttula
Juha Perttula has a doctorate in metallurgy and he has published several studies in scientific journals on heat...
Z-Tuff and CD#1 – The Toughest Knife Steel?
The first of these steels to be released was Carpenter’s CD#1 around 2004 [1]. The “CD” stands for...