Re: Steel question



On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, the wharf rat wrote:

	I'm interested in some of the CRKT models.  They have interesting
designs but the blades are stamped and/or machined out of 420J or 440A
which I've always thought of as well crap...

It isn't great, I have used it. It is similar to other low carbon stainless, they wear fast so on some materials like carpet the edge degrades quickly.

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