Armour Plated Knife making steel !!!

[Battle Creek Knives]

Was out in the Ozarks for about a week or so, while there I went to Branson Silver Dollar City...

Was in the knife shop fondling a beauty of a knife, similar to a paring.. asked him what type of steel their smith makes these from..

he spouted off a bunch of numbers and added in armour plated steel in the mix..

I was totally in the dark so simply handed him back the knife without questions, as there were others in the store waiting..

Armour Plated Steel ????

Is this as much of a crock I think it is, or is there something more I need to learn about?? Armour plating doesn't seem like a good mix for a knife?? but again who am I to judge.. I only use the easy oil quench stuff.. not sure of its armour content

 

[thegeek574]

I am going to go out on a limb and say that he is a crack. i have done a lot of research on the topic of steel and the only thing that sounds like that is surgical stainless.

 

[zerogee]

Most armor plate steel actually has a fairly low carbon content (usually under 0.4%). What armor plate suppliers actually supply is material that meets certain performance standards -- a lot of the secrets are in how the steel is heat treated to get relatively high surface hardness combined with high structural strength and ductility of the body of the steel plate. Neither the typical formulations, nor the heat treatment used would make a good knife steel.

 

[james terrio]

Is this as much of a crock I think it is...

Yes.

Armor plating would make a terrible knife.

He may have meant an "armor plated" blade which I can only assume means you take good steel and coat it in one of several ways. Which is perfectly viable, but certainly not a specific kind of steel.

Using terms like "armor-plated" tells me the guy is either entirely full of crap or trying to hide what he does and make it sound like a big secret, which means... he's almost entirely full of crap.

 

[hammerfall]

the "armor plated" he was talking about sounds like expolsion welding to me. basically its a fairly cheap way to weld 2 alloy together especially suitable for alloys that hard to weld such like stainless, it usually provide good welding quality. i have seen several stainless damascus steel was massive producted this way. some factory use this way sandwich one piece of s7 between 2 layer of stainless.

if he mean armor plate used on tank or aircraft, then i am not sure.

 

[artificialj]

Armor plated steel, cause, you know, steel needs something to protect itself with.

 

[Nebulae]

it is possible but highly unlikely that the steel is T1 which is a good HSS, and also the name of some armor plating. different alloys.