Bushcraft Knives Carbon vs Stainless Steel, What’s the best for you

Bushcraft knives come in many shapes and sizes. With many different philosophies on blade shapes and handle shapes. But there is one fundamental division that runs through all these different choices: carbon steel vs stainless steel. We explain how these two choices relate to each other.

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Knives used in this video:

Carbon Steel Bushcraft Knives

Stainless Bushcraft Knives



Tool Steel Bushcraft Knives

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00:00 Intro
00:19 Carbon steel
01:09 Stainless steel
02:02 Tool steel
02:48 Conclusions

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[AYellowPepper]

My 2 Cents:
Tool steels lean more toward the stainless properties in Brittleness, D2 is a steel that can be on both sides on the spectrum, be carefull with it.
My favourite general steel is Sandvic "14c28n" and its brother "Nitro-V" by most tests is Extremely stainless, has a good ammount of edgeretention and is so finely made that it can also be very tougth! :)

[DaryooshF.Sh.P-vqmu]

For normal people who use knives here and there without being in love or obsessed with blades I suggest stainless, for those otherwise only Carbon steels. Latter group see beauty differently, enjoy maintaining their knives and know how to treat and respect a lovely carbon blade. 🔪

[knifesharpeningnorway]

Aebl is actually tougher than 1095 and good bit more than o1 while still being considered stainless. New magnacut is a good do it all good edge retention and toughness around 4v levels and stainless is near perfect like lc200n. Probably one of the best steels out there

[richardrudy]

Excellent video bud, I appreciate it very much. Thanks.