Global steel production has peaked in 2021 and it's stagnating ever since. Is this just another minor hiccup or an ominous sign of a much bigger crisis in the making?
I noticed crucible steel just went bankrupt again. They made the best particle metallurgy steel for knives so if anyone wants that ultimate survival knife better buy up that 3V and Magnacut quick while bars are still floating around. Last time crucible went bankrupt I made some money hoarding some new old stock carbon V knives which was just coldsteels marketing name for a decent but primitive Sharon steel that was just a small chromium and vanadium addition to 1095. Hopefully European company that does advanced steels will buy crucible and start it up again or take on the production of advanced formulas that depend on particle metallurgy in their own plants. Though I suspect the steel industry in Europe is going to be struggling equally or moreso if they don’t have economic energy supply.
If we lose this third generation particle metallurgy tech it will be interesting example of collapse . I had thought about just buying these steels by the ton in case of such a scenario and becoming the knife baron but it hit out of nowhere, makes more sense than hoarding gold in a crazy collapse scenario. The knife business is just a drop in the bucket so the industry won’t operate around making these things available to consumers, the fancy steel is just a side thing they do, but the meat and potatoes of their business is for automotive and other industrial applications .
China doesn’t have replacement for this as far as I know. So if USA and Europe lose the tech it’s just a lower level of complexity… if the price for the auctioning in bankruptcy goes low enough it could make sense to purchase crucible just for the specialty metal production and you would have some semi monopoly , if bohler uddelholm also succumbs to the European deindustrialization.
Worst case scenario I think we will still have 14C28N available which is a decent formula that works as a regular ingot steel, though it doesn’t have any vanadium or niobium carbides so it tops out in wear resistance earlier than the good CPM grades.
Depends on what you will be using the knife for and how much your budget is? i wouldn’t go thicker than 3/16th, ive found all that does is increase weight and make them less able to slice because the thickness gets in the way, and if you fuck up a knife that thick its because you are using the wrong tool for the job.
I noticed crucible steel just went bankrupt again. They made the best particle metallurgy steel for knives so if anyone wants that ultimate survival knife better buy up that 3V and Magnacut quick while bars are still floating around. Last time crucible went bankrupt I made some money hoarding some new old stock carbon V knives which was just coldsteels marketing name for a decent but primitive Sharon steel that was just a small chromium and vanadium addition to 1095. Hopefully European company that does advanced steels will buy crucible and start it up again or take on the production of advanced formulas that depend on particle metallurgy in their own plants. Though I suspect the steel industry in Europe is going to be struggling equally or moreso if they don’t have economic energy supply.
If we lose this third generation particle metallurgy tech it will be interesting example of collapse . I had thought about just buying these steels by the ton in case of such a scenario and becoming the knife baron but it hit out of nowhere, makes more sense than hoarding gold in a crazy collapse scenario. The knife business is just a drop in the bucket so the industry won’t operate around making these things available to consumers, the fancy steel is just a side thing they do, but the meat and potatoes of their business is for automotive and other industrial applications .
China doesn’t have replacement for this as far as I know. So if USA and Europe lose the tech it’s just a lower level of complexity… if the price for the auctioning in bankruptcy goes low enough it could make sense to purchase crucible just for the specialty metal production and you would have some semi monopoly , if bohler uddelholm also succumbs to the European deindustrialization.
Worst case scenario I think we will still have 14C28N available which is a decent formula that works as a regular ingot steel, though it doesn’t have any vanadium or niobium carbides so it tops out in wear resistance earlier than the good CPM grades.
Yo man, I remember you from SSC/The Motte back in the days. What a shithole reddit turned into, glad to see you are still going and hopefully healthy.
Can you recommend a brand and thickness for the 3v and Magnacut knives? Stay well.
Depends on what you will be using the knife for and how much your budget is? i wouldn’t go thicker than 3/16th, ive found all that does is increase weight and make them less able to slice because the thickness gets in the way, and if you fuck up a knife that thick its because you are using the wrong tool for the job.