Nitrogen-Alloyed Knife Steels

[supracor]

Sanyo has a series of Nitrogen-alloyed superhigh speed steels and Hitachi has some Nitride-based sintered ultrahard materials.
Of course also Bohler-Uddeholm N-steels are intriguing.
It would be interesting to try them :)

[Stuart Ackerman]

Doc
my knife is 5mm thick,but the other two will be surface ground thinner, maybe 3mm?
I cannot buy any more round bar N680 cheap enough, but I do have a 8 inch slice of X15, which Boker used for a while. 6mm thick, but also can be thinned out.

[Xplorer]

In this article I cover the basics of nitrogen-alloyed knife steels....

https://knifesteelnerds.com/2018/09/17/ ... fe-steels/

Larrin, this was a great article...once again! Thank you for sharing the results of your research.

Chad

[Larrin]

Sanyo has a series of Nitrogen-alloyed superhigh speed steels

I’m not familiar with those. Can you provide a link?

[Stuart Ackerman]

I searched for Nitrogen, and only found Nickel based high speed Sanyo products.

The charts should show N, not Ni...

http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/pr ... 201712.pdf
http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/pr ... 201712.pdf
http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/pr ... 201712.pdf
http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/pr ... er2017.pdf

[The Meat man]

Another great article Larrin. I'm looking forward to the one about H-1.

[pdptrow]

I wonder if Spyderco would do a Mule Team. They haven't done damascus with Nitrogen steel.
https://knifenews.com/damasteel-impleme ... ore-dc18n/

[Naperville]

Sign me up for high hardness, high corrosion resistance, and any bit of toughness that can be squeezed out!

100%

[SF Native]

I wonder if Spyderco would do a Mule Team. They haven't done damascus with Nitrogen steel.
https://knifenews.com/damasteel-impleme ... ore-dc18n/

That’s cool. I’m interested. Some sprints in steel like this could be great.

[supracor]

I’m not familiar with those. Can you provide a link?

http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/pr ... er2017.pdf

I've tried to search some other information on the SPC X series, but Sanyo, like all the japanese steel manufacturers doesn't say so much about their "special products".
In practice they say nothing, but when you see a steel with a working hardness of 71 Rc it must be something serious.

[Larrin]

Ok I see. It's also interesting that Sanyo does vacuum induction PM steels.