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Hey maybe he just liked really shiny knives with 1% - you are of course correct - did it from memory (not a good idea these days!) and it was indeed, irrefutably and absolutely .02% :fim: (unless his...

That's what I thought.

No worries. As far as I am aware (and I was wrong about the molybdenum!), silver steel was invented 1820-ish by Michael Faraday whilst workin on improving steel used in surgical instruments. AT THAT...

well that's snobbery or I've never heard it. I'm a middle aged company director. How much junior to you is that? Do you think that all we've ever done is rattle round this forum?

Wrong - Michael Faraday invented it and silver was added at a 1% ratio, now replaced (sometimes) by chrome or molybdenum.

Silver steel and high carbon steel are more or less the same thing - these days chromium is added rather than silver, hence the term 'chrome steel'. This is done to reduce or eliminate polishing...