Heat Treatment & Steels

 Heat Treatment

 

The heat treatment of my blades is extremely important to me. I do all my heat treating in house and utilize  methods such as cryogenic treatment at liquid nitrogen temperatures as well as extended thermic cycling in order to ensure maximum quality.

I also enjoy constantly testing and experimenting on new materials and heat treatment protocols which I sometimes document on Youtube. If you are interested in that, find a few links below!

 

Available Steels

  • Vancron Superclean 
  • CPM Rex 121
  • S390 Microclean
  • S290 Microclean
  • K390 Microclean
  • Z-Wear
  • Z-Max
  • CPM-Cruwear
  • Z-Tuff (Tougher than CPM 3V at higher hardness)
  • Uddeholm Caldie (So called "matrix steel"; can hold extremely thin geometries)
  • S7
  • 1.2562 (German version of Aogami Super, but with a little more tungsten)
  • Apex Ultra
  • Aogami Super
  • ZDP-189
  • Vanax Superclean
  • Nitrobe 77
  • Nitro-X7       
  • M398 Microclean
  • RWL34
  • Damasteel
  • Damacore

 

Others on request!