Hey /k/ what's your preferred knife steel for your needs?

>>29458839
my favorites are elmax and cpm3v

My edc is Sandvik 14C28N and it's a well made knife, I like the way the steel performs and it's more than adequate for my uses.

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>>29458839
Anything properly heat treated.so definetly nothing from zt.

440c and s30v.

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S30V

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I haven't ventured into higher end knives yet, most of mine are mid level 8Cr13Mov steels

>>29458839

I like steels that will take and hold an extremely high initial sharpness, and which work well at low edge angles:

ZDP-189
CPM-M4
HAP40 (Japanese steel similar to M4)
Aogami Super Blue
High hardness 1095 and 52100

These all work well for my EDC use.

>>29459487
sup drake

>>29459896

Sup?

>>29459954
You could freehand a butter knife on a granite slab and shave with it. You the edge mastah.

>>29460382

Ha, well, not quite! To be perfectly honest, none of the stuff I do is particularly technically challenging.

The challenge is figuring out the methodology because so much of the information online about sharpening ranges from misguided to deliberately counter productive.