Thread: Top Quality Hunting Knives

A couple of good steels for balancing better edge retention without becoming a pain to sharpen are 14c28n, rwl 34/cpm154, s45vn. All fairly available to makers here.

You can take a step up in edge retention with the like of s30v, elmx or further again, but they do start to become a little more nigly to sharpen properly if you aren't reasonably well versed in the art.

John makes a lovely knife, have a scroll through the show me your knife section and check out some of the work on there