What is your favourite steel to sharpen?

[Blank Blades.]

What’s wrong with it?

I think he's just joking about people not being big fans of pm tool steels here.

I mean I would say for the majority of the users here, that is a fair assessment of their preferences.

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

How can you even say that on this forum?

 

[Blank Blades.]

Stop commiting kitchen knife thought crimes!!!

 

[Deadboxhero]

Some Color etch metallography I did of CPM 15V.
Cream colored vanadium carbides in a blue matrix of tempered martensite.

CPM 15V edge at high magnification. Carbides have been exposed from matrix with sharpening technique, this increases aggression. Carbides are ~3um average size.

CPM 15V with high polished edge under high magnification, carbides have been cut and polished flush with matrix ; better push cutting.

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

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Some Color etch metallography I did of CPM 15V.
Cream colored vanadium carbides in a blue matrix of tempered martensite.

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CPM 15V edge at high magnification. Carbides have been exposed from matrix with sharpening technique, this increases aggression. Carbides are ~3um average size.

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CPM 15V with high polished edge under high magnification, carbides have been cut and polished flush with matrix ; better push cutting.

C'mon now, show the edge you got. BESS 42 was it?

 

[Deadboxhero]

C'mon now, show the edge you got. BESS 42 was it?

That was CPM S110V.

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

That was CPM S110V.

Oh yeah that's right.

But this wasn't.

 

[Blank Blades.]

Oh yeah that's right.

But this wasn't.

Always thought that saya was the coolest thing.

I want to make one like that with some vintage micarta I have.

 

[SABOL BROTHERS]

That was CPM S110V.

Free hand or guided system? What was the edge angle?

 

[Rangen]

Outdoors55 demonstrated how to (not) sharpen S110V on the most-reviewed knife sharpener on Amazon.