Hi there,

I'm getting it from Bohler Uddeholm here in SA, the steel is manufactured by Bohler. If you google around for knives made from the steel you see quite a lot of love for it, and yes it's regarded as wear resistant yet machines well and polishes wonderfully. It can be hardened way past 63 and so should take a lovely edge and truly keep it for some time. It's a high carbon PM steel - here's the spec sheet on it for those interested: http://www.bohler-uddeholm.co.za/eng...ish_040403.pdf

I don't see any razors made using this steel, as indeed there are hardly any custom knives made with it either, but so I'll report back on how it works out for me little down the line. I'm currently working with N690 stainless, and so this will be a nice carbon steel to throw in the mix, will see how it goes...

Cheers,
- Mike