John Greco

He primarily used 8670, a steel used for commercial metal-sawing blades, with .75% carbon and nickle for toughness.

 

From what I remember, he used a variety of steels depending upon the "period" of his knife making career. Wasn't he around for a number of years?

 

he sometimes put a single number or letter to signify the steel type on the other side of the knife if i recall correctly. a2 and 8670 were common

 

I think that's a pretty good guess based upon my poor memory of past Greco knives I've handled.

 

Most likely A2. I thought Mr. Greco had retired from knife making. Looks like Blade Art has some of his knives.

 

I heard he had retired, I am pretty sure this work is from his earlier work, I have a small Bowie in 8670 and black coated.

 

He's retired at least twice as of about 5-10 years ago. He's got some health problems.

 

That's cool. If I had a high end steakhouse that's the knives we'd use

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