Spyderco just needs to put some black & yellow striped G-10 on the PM3 along with some LC200N steel to make a Caribbean Junior...
Other than that & H1, it looks like S110V is the best, according to this Spyderco thread from 4-16-2017:
https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=74221
Re: Corrosion Resistance Ranking of Stainless Steels
Postby
PayneTrain » Sun Apr 16, 2017 6:07 pm
My subjective rankings from another post a little while ago:
10: H1, LC200N (based on Surfingringo's report), glass. These things can't rust. Go ahead and try.
9:
8: S110V (really stainless, only managed to get rust spots by leaving joint compound on it to dry, and even then it wiped right off)
7: S90V/CTS-20CP, CTS-XHP, CTS-204P/CPM 20CV/M390
6: VG-10, S30V/S35VN, 440C, Elmax, CTS-B70P, GIN-1, 440A, 12C27, 154CM
5: AUS-8, Cruwear, ZDP-189
4: D2, PSF27, Sleipner
3: M4, 1095, 5160
2: Super Blue (rusts in humid weather if not protected)
1: My car (results possibly skewed by New England's liberal use of super-salts on the roads
)
I may split the 7's and put the M390 variants above the S90V variants based on super scientific sweat testing, but I think it's largely splitting hairs. Other than that, these are still my opinions/absolute truths.
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