What is 1065 Steel? Is it good?

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What's the word on 1065? I understand it's lower cost but what is it comparable too? Is it usable or garbage for blades?
 
1065 should be a very tough steel, medium edge durability and very easy to sharpen.

Since it was a hypoeutectoid steel it will need higher temp range on heat treat and longer soak time.

Not a very easy steel to begin with compare to something like 1084 or SK5 though.
 
I'm not familiar with "1065". But yes, a simple steel with .65% carbon would be quite tough and would be fairly easy to harden sufficiently. In case that was a typo... I'm very familiar with 1095, and it certainly makes good knives.

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I understand anything as low as 1025 is really good.
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Not exactly... although I'm not familiar with "1025" either. Steels with less than about .4% carbon are pretty difficult to harden enough to hold a fine edge.
 
The only place ive seen 1065 is on cheap budk knives where it says "1065 surgical stainless" Is this what your referencing to? If so, its not actually 1065, just cheap Chinese mystery steel.

If your actually talking about 1065, it would be a great in a large knife.
 
From what I"ve seen 1065 is sort of an esoteric, cheap, hard-use steel that sneaks in and out of some of the lesser known knives. Toughness seems to be the main thing with it. I see it mainly in outdoor knives.
 
Showler said:
What's the word on 1065? I understand it's lower cost but what is it comparable too? Is it usable or garbage for blades?
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Hello I am not the smartest knife guy ever however I believe that I have the shortest possible answer to 1065 surgical steel and what it means to me this is the simplest answer I have 1065 surgical steel is a moderately-priced surgical steel that might cost unfair amount of money if not handled correctly that is specifically designed to be inferior in every Major Way relevant in comparison to 440 a stainless type of Steel whereas 1065 surgical steel is not in the stainless category and it not surgical stainless either and it is specifically designed to be not as good as 440 a type of stainless in every single way except for two and the two ways that it is slightly better than 440a are as follows one
 
Stupid bum said:
Hello I am not the smartest knife guy ever however I believe that I have the shortest possible answer to 1065 surgical steel and what it means to me this is the simplest answer I have 1065 surgical steel is a moderately-priced surgical steel that might cost unfair amount of money if not handled correctly that is specifically designed to be inferior in every Major Way relevant in comparison to 440 a stainless type of Steel whereas 1065 surgical steel is not in the stainless category and it not surgical stainless either and it is specifically designed to be not as good as 440 a type of stainless in every single way except for two and the two ways that it is slightly better than 440a are as follows one it is extremely resistant to rust chemicals flash contamination hazardous materials and other debris that you would not want it and does not require any oil or cleaning solvents because it's surgical however and not stainless Surgical 2 it kills bacteria virus mold fun G and microbes very well I'm not very smart
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Stupid bum said:
Hello I am not the smartest knife guy ever however I believe that I have the shortest possible answer to 1065 surgical steel and what it means to me this is the simplest answer I have 1065 surgical steel is a moderately-priced surgical steel that might cost unfair amount of money if not handled correctly that is specifically designed to be inferior in every Major Way relevant in comparison to 440 a stainless type of Steel whereas 1065 surgical steel is not in the stainless category and it not surgical stainless either and it is specifically designed to be not as good as 440 a type of stainless in every single way except for two and the two ways that it is slightly better than 440a are as follows one
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Welcome to the forum.

A friendly word of advice - there is no need to resurrect 7 year old threads. :)
 
Showler said:
What's the word on 1065? I understand it's lower cost but what is it comparable too? Is it usable or garbage for blades?
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It's a decent choice for swords but not much els, it's a medium to high carbon steel capable of hrc 59 to 60, poor wear resistance and rusts very easy..

Toughness should probably be close to l6 or a little less. Great for differential heat treat though and hamons show really well with this steel.

Personally for a long sword I'd pick 5160 or ztuff over 1065 though, 5160 being the cheaper option of the two.
 
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