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Wow guys, thanks for the feedback! I didn’t expect it to be so fast, encouraging, and well-informed. Leave it to the Spyderco forum crowd to bring the steel enthusiasm!

Some things I think should be noted that I forgot to include originally:

• All knives were sharpened to 17dps

• Vanadis4E felt gummy on the sharpening stones and (by all accounts), the steel should perform better

• Being that the Vanadis4E is on an old ZT, I suspect the heat treatment is not optimal and some flexible damaged metal clung to the apex and refused to be deburred - though it could also be my fault, with the hundreds of variables present in hand sharpening

• I have had somewhat better results chopping wood with 1095 CroVan and 80CrV2 than 1095 proper, it should be noted that not all 0.9ish% Carbon carbon steels perform similarly

VandymanG wrote: ↑

Thu May 30, 2024 11:39 pm

I’ve seen that chart before but with you pointing it out and his video showing similar results I get it even more.

Now that I think about it, this chart from @Larrin is more appropriate since "edge retention" doesn't matter for this particular discussion. You can see that NitroV and Magnacut cross over between 62 and 63 HRC.