Buck Strider 880 with BG-42 Steel Blade...

[Addicted_to_Knives]

Dear members,

Recently I got this very interesting early 2000s Buck Strider 880 knife for my collection... It just looked amazing, very tactical and superb. I did not know much facts about this knife to begin with..

The most interesting finding was about the blade. The blade material said: BG-42. I have never heard of such blade steel or seen in knives - steel called BG-42. Did some research... As it turns out due to aerospace demand for it (jet engine parts & pivots) this steel disappeared from the main street knife market..

I want to find more about this mysterious blade steel. Has any members here had any experience with it? What's your overall impression of it?

 

[basetta70]

Also CRK used this steel.
Nice steel if hardened >60.
Of course nowadays you can find out probably something better.

 

[cchu518]

it was popular for a short time but other steels from Crucible Industries took the world by storm with their Vanadium cocktail steels which are still industry standard today.

 

[dirc]

it's a great knife steel, similar to cts-b75p (which btw, was used by olamic and zt in the past ; )

http://zknives.com/knives/steels/bg42.shtml

good amount of moly & vanadium ; ) & it's stainless