Is 1095 High Carbon steel a good steel to use for an everyday carry knife?
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Is 1095 High Carbon steel a good steel to use for an everyday carry knife?
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Aaah … no …
Do you need to carry it in your pocket? Do you need to cut bread with it? Open an envelope?
Hope you like the taste of metal and you don’t mind rust stains on your clothes and documents. Also hopefully you have a nice industrial sharpening system at home.
Just use a decent stainless for edc.
High Carbon is good for swords or bushcrafting.
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Yes, it’s fine for that. Obviously you need a sheath that will keep it dry. But it’s a great everyday knife if taken care of properly.
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If you mean a little folding pocket knife as your EDC go stainless steel.
If you want a blade that will work for you when you need it, 1095 or similar is great. A little care prevents any possible rusting, it will sharpen easier, and is tougher that most any stainless steel.
Just be careful choosing a 1095 blade because some manufactures have a hard time properly heat treating 1095 to specification, and some 1095 makers have a hard time using repeatable and reliable processes and materials during the manufacturing process. The problem is that the specifications for 1095 are too loose. So different batches of the steel can vary widely. That’s why I don’t use 1095, it’s too hard to verify consistency of the alloy.
A great high carbon steel for your EDC knife is 15N20, a high carbon, high nickel steel. The 2% nickel content makes this carbon steel ALMOST stainless. It’s very tough and can be heat treated to 60 on the Rockwell hardness scale without worry of chipping.
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If you are prepared to clean, dry, and oil your 1095 knife regularly, then 1095 is a fine choice for an every day carry pocket knife.
I’ve been carrying a Schrade “Old Timer” 340T pocket knife since the 5th grade. I’m on my third one of that model since then (about 1978–79). The first one wore out and loosened up, and since it was my fathers before it was mine, I retired it (I still have it). My second one had a brief life of only a decade or so before it slipped out of my pocket at some point. The third one has been in my pocket since the mid 90’s.
It has some stains, and a few pits, but since I clean it, and keep it sharpened and a bit of oil in the hinge, it serves me well. It sharpens easily, and stays nicely sharp. Being a little pocket knife, I don’t use the blades to pry things, or split logs, or anything. 1095 makes a fine knife – except for the disadvantage of not being “stainless”.
If you’re NOT going to take proper care of it, then 1095 is not for you. If wiping it off when you use it, and blowing the dust bunnies out and oiling it once in a while are too much for you, then 1095 isn’t the right steel for you.
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Why not check out an authoritative web page on something like this:
How Good is 1095 Steel? – Knife Up
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