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Originally Posted by MK2750
Please go ahead and tell us where you are finding premium steel for under $200 in a hand crafted knife. I am in the market for a new blade as I am worried about losing a couple of that hold sentimental value. A decent pocket knife with S30V or S35V is generally over a $200 budget.
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In a handmade knife you probably won’t be, but in reality if you did find one for that much or even twice that much odds are the knife maker didn’t heat treat the steel themselves anyway. Most knife makers don’t have a long list of steels they offer their knives in, usually only one or two, that is because they don’t have the recipes. Knife makers like to work with 1095, O1, be cause they are easy to work with. The newer “super” steels like S30V, S35V, 3V, Cruwear etc are far harder to work with.
Point is folks buying a custom in these newer super steels, are probably getting a semi production knife in the end.
Ken