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Knives made with m390 steel.
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Carbon steel generally made for rough use where toughness and durability is important.
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M390 super steel is manufactured by bohler uddeholm.
M390 exhibits excellent edge retention corrosion resistance and high level toughness.
When you produce a larger knife you need a type of steel that is a lot tougher something m390 simply does not excel at.
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Gives extra hardness to the steel and keeps air bubbles from forming in the melting process.
Common in survival knives and machetes.
Types of steel that closely resemble böhler m390.
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The general lack of m390 in knives was presumably because bohler was more focused on selling the steel to the plastics industry.
Based on bohler communication the m390 steel is composed of.
It saw limited use in some european custom knives such as this knife by dietmar kressler made in 1999 6.
It uses third generation powder metal technology and developed for knife blades requiring excellent corrosion resistance and very high hardness for excellent wear resistance.
Carbon is essential in all blades and knives it gives more toughness durability to the blade knife but the carbon as a component is susceptible to corrosion.
The most popular carbon knife steel is 1095.
The trade off is being more prone to corrosion given the low chromium content.
Its brother n690 is then a much better option.
They take a sharp edge and are relatively easy to re sharpen.
K390 bohler uddeholm is a high end cold work tool steel made by bohler high in vanadium which makes it very tough steel with great wear resistance used in the knife industry high end and premium knives cutting tools and cold forming operations.
Bohler m390 is widely revered as being the best all around knife steel which has led top companies to widely utilize it in higher end knives.
Dietmar kressler knife in m390 made in 1999 6.