The description is incomplete. These blades are san-mai and so they're made of a homogeneous core steel sandwiched between two layers of the pattern-welded/damascus cladding.
From the color of the etching it looks like 440C is also being used as the core steel but 440C is not usually taken to 62 HRC with the highest I've ever seen it sold at being 60 HRC. Either 440C is NOT the core steel or these knives are going to be crazy brittle without the additional edge stability that normally comes with higher hardness. There's a reason why you don't normally see steels like that taken so high; they just can't take it. 1.4125 is just another name for 440C.
The steels used in the cladding doesn't matter a whole lot unless one is not stainless and the other is so it would still be nice to know what they are.
So yeah, what's going on Massdrop? Did anyone actually verify the details for these products?
readehxI would recommend the Zhen knives that were here a few weeks ago, the vg-10 knives as vg-10 is a truly amazing steel and outclasses 440c in every way
From the color of the etching it looks like 440C is also being used as the core steel but 440C is not usually taken to 62 HRC with the highest I've ever seen it sold at being 60 HRC. Either 440C is NOT the core steel or these knives are going to be crazy brittle without the additional edge stability that normally comes with higher hardness. There's a reason why you don't normally see steels like that taken so high; they just can't take it. 1.4125 is just another name for 440C.
The steels used in the cladding doesn't matter a whole lot unless one is not stainless and the other is so it would still be nice to know what they are.
So yeah, what's going on Massdrop? Did anyone actually verify the details for these products?