It should be a lot quicker than both M390 and S30V to reprofile the edge area - they both have 3-4% Vanadium - AEB-L has none.TkoK83Spy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:29 amI like mine a lot, but after a day of use at work it always needs some loving for that hair popping sharpness I won't leave the house without :)
The grind angles on each side of the knife are quite different so I don't even use the Sharpmaker when touching up. I free hand with the rods, which works..but takes longer than I like.
This is supposedly a tough steel, but I'm thinking of reprofiling to 15dps using the CBN rods in the Sharpmaker. I did it with an M390 Para 3 a couple months ago and took me around 4 hours total. Do you think this knife would be more of the same, in that ball park?
It’s a low carbide, relatively low wear resistance steel.
It is probably run slightly harder than M390 and almost certainly harder than S30V, but the HRC number is the matrix hardness, not the carbides.
It shines in thin, refined edges. Larrin says in his Nitrogen Steels article that it is the toughest knife steel he has tested.