Ok, so I normally use D2. Recently a buddy of mine requested a custom knife out of 1095. Is 1095 as easy to work with or easier than D2? I am going to be making the knife via stock removal, and flat grinding the blade using a homemade jig.
Thanks for the help.
You would have to look at the wear resistance charts for both steels.The one I've heard the most complaint about is CPM3V.
1095 generally works much easier then D2.
The 10XX series seem to be the easiest to work for me. 1095 being high carbon is a bit tougher to hit the hardening and tempering perfectly. It takes a bit of soak time at the proper temperatures to get all that carbon to distribute evenly in the matrix prior the quench sequence.
Thanks for the info guys. As I do not do my own tempering I don't have to worry about correct temps and quenching ( I would like to get to that point at some point). Lets see what happens.
TBRA