What about all the old sab blanks that are out there, I have been wanting one my self. 100 year old carbon freshly ground with proper modern heat treat, sounds nice to me.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Car...321?pt=Collectible_Knives&hash=item2334629921
I have a couple if you want one. They need heat treating. Belated x mas /congrats on new job.
What about all the old sab blanks that are out there, I have been wanting one my self. 100 year old carbon freshly ground with proper modern heat treat, sounds nice to me.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Car...321?pt=Collectible_Knives&hash=item2334629921
Hundred years old with a full tang?? In these days they had a rat tail. Full tang has only become common in France after WW2. And of course the common story on today's carbon being recycled.
Have you seen this thread Colin?
http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showthread.php/5913-WIP-custom-carbon-Sabatier
The ebay add (and don't get me wrong I know these guys are known to sometimes stretch the truth) says they are from a factory that was closed and abandoned for 100 years?? Now for what I have read they didn't start using recycled steel really at all till the late 1950's to make knives?
Now for my own hypothesis (or just pulling out of my but) old iron doesn't patina the same way that recycled steel does? Recycled steel just turns darker shades of gray never truly gets that deep black patina? Again I base this statement on pure observation, having done no true research or reading into it.
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