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    Posted: 12 June 2003 at 16:59
what would be regarded as the best steel in a production (read: non-custom-high-$$$$$$) knife?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 June 2003 at 04:37

Hey Tas,

I may be able to get you a custom knife for pretty cheap if you were interested. Production knives seem kind of expensive. The town manager (kinda like a North Eastern Mayor) is into knife making. he made me and my brother knives for our birthdays.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 June 2003 at 12:47

NH -

here in lewistown we ahve a town manager too. not sure if it the BEST system, but it is no worse than any other, probably. so far the town looks to be doing pretty good!

i'll have to think about taking you up on your offer! my opinion is that one can never have too many knives! i've got about a dozen "pocket" knives (kids kep "borrowing" them, then returning them long after i thought they were long gone and replaced them), one very nice victoronix (sp?) swiss army knife, a schrade hunting knife, a buck hunting knife, a USMC ka-bar, and an m4-bayonet. do i have MORE than enough? probably, could i use another one? hell yes!!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 June 2003 at 14:59

You may have a town manger, but do you have a board of selectmen and a Town meeting??????

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 June 2003 at 15:07

heh heh - not exactly......

a few city councilmen who meet daily for coffee at the yogo inn.....

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Well, if they get the job done, and done well, than that is all that matters.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 June 2003 at 08:33

I've always preferred a high-carbon blade, not stainless. The newer stainless steels are supposed to be far better than some of the old stuff, but I'll still stay with the plain tool steel high carbon blade. They've served me well or a lot of years.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 June 2003 at 09:13

Howdy Gents:

Well, for production knives, I like Case, especially the Case XX Select.  Their stuff is surgical steel (I think thats what they call it).  Whatever that is.  I just assumed it was some sort of stainless steel. 

As for custom knives, I still have a year and a half until I get my Randall, which had a 36 month waiting list.  Oh well, that gives me time to save the cash.

I think Randall started out making knives from old files.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 July 2003 at 14:25

Tasunk;

ATS34 seems to be the steel of choice lately for the better production stuff.

If the carbon steel is what you like, Dillon Has Cold Steel's SRK for $58.90, probably will be on my wish list for X-mas or something.

Natchez has the new Puma Hunter's Pal for about $65.00 + S&H, I have a Puma.  Nice knives.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 July 2003 at 18:00

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  ATS34 is good stuff, got a benchmade made out of it.  These are vacuum forged steel.  Very few impurites. 

The case xxx's I have, I picked up in Germany while I was in the military, they are really high carbon, nice stuff but it can be a bit brittle.  I don't know steel that well but I can tell from how they sharpen how good they are.  Case xx's (old ones) are chromed, they're softer then the xxx I have but still hold a edge a good long while.

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