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Old 01-10-2022, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken3134 View Post
I order a Crotts Semi skinner that was for sale on the Arizona Custom Knives website. It’s out of CTS-XHP steel not the D2, so hopefully he has the heat treatment figured out. Should be an upgrade if so.

I really didn’t know I needed another knife, buts thanks to this thread I realized I I do. I’ll have to cull the herd here…….
He will have it sorted. CTS-XHP is the PM version of D2 which gives you a cleaner, finer grained steel with smaller carbides. I’ve never used it but from everything I’ve read it should be better then ingot d2.

Congrats on the knife, you should be very happy with it.
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