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Old Timer steel question .
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 1:51 pm
by cbnutt
On a old timer USA knife i was looking at they still have the box , it says "high carbon steel " would that be the old normal carbon that patinas , wanted to make sure i wasnt getting stainless , i had read in latter years they switched to it in the last old timers ? Thanks .
Re: Old Timer steel question .
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:34 pm
by catspa
I don’t have boxes for hardly any of my knives, but broadly speaking Old Timer was Schrade’s carbon steel line and Uncle Henry was their stainless equivalent. There are perhaps a few exceptions, but I would assume “high carbon steel” means 1095 or something similar. If it was stainless, I think the box would say stainless.
Parker
Re: Old Timer steel question .
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:57 pm
by ea42
Do you recall what the box looked like?
Eric
Re: Old Timer steel question .
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 5:15 pm
by cbnutt
trapper box.jpg
ea42 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:57 pm
Do you recall what the box looked like? Tried to add pic , didnt seem to work .
Eric
Re: Old Timer steel question .
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 5:18 pm
by cbnutt
Re: Old Timer steel question .
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:43 am
by garddogg56
1095
Re: Old Timer steel question .
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:05 pm
by btrwtr
Shouldn't honing steel need to have a hardness greater then the blades it is dressing? Not sure what the steel used is but since 1095 can only be hardened to about 58 rockwell I doubt it would be in that form alone. Maybe 1095 impregnated with carbide or some other harder metal.