Thread: Svord Curved Skinner

Originally Posted by Shelley

Vastly superior? Not sure, I'm partial to O1 but I think steel is just steel until it's tempered, and it's the skill of the tempering (quenching, annealing etc), which makes one blade, as opposed to all steel, superior, I find sweeping statements quickly become undone. Those Enzo's seem nice but not really my style, good price but.

Unless its 440c steel, average at best, shit in my view.

just so everybody is on the same page as to heat treatment of knife blades

quenching is fast cooling of the blade after it has been heated to a certain temperature for a prescribed time to make the blade hard but brittle

tempering is a heating of the blade to a lower temperature for a longer time to make the blade slightly softer but tougher
this can include a deep freeze cycle

annealing is heating a previously hardened steel to a prescribed temperature and cooling slowly at a fixed rate to make the steel soft

as thar has said a great steel coupled with a great heat treat makes a far superior knife
cheers john