The long 1475" clippoint scimitar looking blade is constructed from 1095 CroVan steel, a material that KaBar seemingly uses in just about all of its main catalog of products and rightfully so, it provides an excellent bang for your buck and a considerable upgrade in durability from the standard 1095 steel, specifically in corrosion resistance Overall, this is an excellently6y Even the lowly 440a has a decent carbon content (65 75) That's certainly high enough to qualify it as a blade steel It's more carbon than Sandvik 12C27 and 5160 and few people say those two are too soft to make good blades I'm justAnother peak toughness for this steel is when you temper to achieve 6566hrc This informations are not my observations, are from reading what my steel
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