I haven’t been very active here but looking for opinions from users as opposed to the makers from other groups I belong to. My older brother is a pretty active member around the Campfire and has been beating me up about making knives from stainless. Over my ten plus years of making I’ve made all of my knives from high carbon steels (primarily 1095 and W2). Now that I’ve started making more EDC/Pocket Utility/Pocket Hunter blades, I’ve more interesting in a more stain resistant steel. It just so happens, I have quite a few plates of A2 that I’ve had in inventory for quite a while and I’m thinking of sending them out to waterjet.
What is you guys (end user’s) opinion of properly heat treated A2 blades? If I push forward with these, I’ll be sending them out to either Peter’s or Bos for heat treat.
