Quote Originally Posted by welshwizard View Post
Steel manufacture in Sheffield declined steeply towards the end of the last century. I think some special steels are still produced. Sheffield Forgemasters still appear to be in business.
I think any cutlery and knife production is probably using imported steels.
A couple of years ago there was a thread on Sheffield steel and someone posted that even back in the heyday of Sheffield razor making some of the steel was imported from Sweden to Great Britain. I have no idea if that is accurate. I have always found it interesting that in the twentieth century German razors frequently were stamped with something like 'made with Sheffield Steel' while Sheffield razors were sometimes stamped 'ground in Germany' or 'Hamburg Ground'.