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All else aside, at worst, you have a lot of material for making good tools and such. Might have some folding knife blades hiding in the block of D2 if you are so inclined. :D My experience with US...

You have to figure that 4140 makes very nice anvils and should make nice hammers and tools too. It gets plenty hard enough to whoop up on stuff, just not hard enough to slice real fine. It also works...

D2 has half again as much carbon as 1095, enough chrome to make it almost "officlally" stainless steel and a fair bit of other alloying elements like vanadium and moly. it requires an austenizing...

D2 is an air harding steel commonly used in knives, but it supposedly works better when you go off of the "factory spec" HT which gives BIG carbides. The old joke about D2 was that it takes a crappy...