M390 Super Steel Knife

Carbon is essential in all blades and knives it gives more toughness durability to the blade knife but the carbon as a component is susceptible to corrosion.
M390 super steel knife. View details buy. Adds a little extra. Us 37 95 123 37. Bohler m390 stainless steel is one of the recent wave of super steels heralded by knife makers all over the world.
Make offer quality mnandi titanium handle wood inlay m390 steel blade pocket folding knife new benchmade 485 valet m390 super steel plain edge knife axis lock g10 handles 174 25. It has characteristics of high hardness and excellent corrosion resistance. Zdp 189 averages around 64 hrc but some knifemakers are able to. Zdp 189 by hitachi is another of the newer super steels containing huge quantities of carbon and chromium that result in ridiculous levels of hardness.
M390 is also not that easy to sharpen. M390 is also not incredibly. Preferably under a very fixed angle. New user coupon on orders over us 4 00.
See knives with m390 steel. Bohler m390 is widely revered as being the best all around knife steel which has led top companies to widely utilize it in higher end knives. 4 ease of sharpening. Gives extra hardness to the steel and keeps air bubbles from forming in the melting process.
M390 exhibits excellent edge retention corrosion resistance and high level toughness. M390 prefers diamond coated stones or ceramic options. M390 was developed by bohler in the late 1980s as a modification to k190 which in turn was a powder metallurgy version of d7 tool steel. The steel saw little use in knives until latrobe steel copied m390 and sold it as 20cv which then became popular with several production knife companies.
Us 51 99 169 00 27. M390 powder steel hrc61 knife making steel blanks knife diy blade steel bar blanks 5 0 store. That is to say. Bohler m390 steel introduction.
This means you re going to get a very fine edge that retains it sharpness even through hard use with little to no. You won t get very far by using a simple arkansas stone. The answer in general is yes is a high end tool steel that brings high hardness wear resistance edge retention and decent corrosion resistance if you re a knife user you would know that s perfect for every usage but as i always say it s not the best steel the best one depends on your usage in all k390 knives would be so great for hard cutting and last edge situations for.