It seems to me that the combination of those two steels would give you very high fine edge stability like they do when used by themselves. Razor people sure love that. My question is does the tungsten in the 115W8 give you more abrasion resistance than razor people might like due to potential difficulty on honing? We are talking pretty significant amounts of carbide formers , chromium and tungsten, in that fairly hyperuetectoid composite.
Quote Originally Posted by Buddel View Post
You are right, 1.3505 is similar to 52100. The contrast between this steel and 1.2442 is very low. This steels are the black and the dark grey steels on this razor. We call it widow damascus. For that reason we put a very little of 15Ni20 in this steel. That are the few small silver lines on this razor. It was a test, how it comes out. But it is only so less of this steel in the razor, that it is not important for the characteristics of the steel. So I forgott to tell it. Sorry.