NJ. Steel Baron: On the Closures of Crucible and Buderus
2025 has been a year of heavy transitions in the world of high-performance steels. Earlier this year, Crucible...
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KnifeSteelNerds: CPM-3V – Still the Best High Toughness Steel
The thing most don’t know about CPM-3V is that it is a powder metallurgy version of an older...
KnifeSteelNerds: Is 1084-15N20 The Best Pattern-Welded Damascus?
Early Bill Moran pattern-welded Damascus used O1 and mild steel. Moran and other 1970s and 1980s-era Damascus smiths...
Can Artificial Intelligence Design a New Knife Steel?
I’ve had multiple people over the past couple years send me steel compositions that ChatGPT came up with....
KnifeSteelNerds: Cold forging of Knife Steel
I already have a separate article about the mechanisms behind cold forging and rolling, so I will not...