Thread: New knife

What steel is in this one?

Great choice in my opinion, I have a few Benchmade's and they are top notch for sure.
My spring assist is my daily carry knife.

Originally Posted by ScottGoodman

What steel is in this one?

The steel is CPM-S30V. I read a bit about it after seeing your question; supposedly a good stainless steel but can be a bit difficult to sharpen. Made by Crucible Industries.

Try setting the bevel on a 1k dmt type hone then go to a 1k water hone. I found that edge is pretty usable and lasts a while. I’ve gone up to 12k and everything in between on diamond pastes but the edge life isn’t that great though it can take an extremely fine edge.

Bench made is a great blade, ive got a few. Nowadays I’m carrying my Al Mar mostly, but I got a Toggle Lock from Joe Carlton, it’s sweet also. Sorry John, but I,m not in the camp of putting anything more than. A 1k edge on any working knife, that includes kitchen knives. That will cut anything clean. Now that Al Mar is VG 10 holds an edge in the oilfield cutting everything from sacks to wire and occasionally hacking anything in my way ( Scott put me on to it ).

Now i have got to get you onto Elmax steel!

Dont get me wrong, I still love vg10 and probably always will.

Another steel I am messing with is m390, really close to Elmax.

I agree, a 1k diamond edge is all I mess with any more.

Well, the m390 is pretty much the same to elmax from a users point of view. The knives, a LUDT (elmax) and Stitch (m390) are both microtech. Feom my point of view, the LUDT carries better simply due to weight...the Stitch is a proverbial tank.