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Originally Posted by fishnguy
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The big brother of that ^ knife is currently on sale in CPM 3V for a great deal of $169.99 at Blades Canada (plus $10 or so for shipping):
https://www.bladescanada.com/Cold-St...Ex-Sheath-36CB. For CPM 3V, this is a pretty good deal (usually VG10 or whatever else they are made of sell for that much). This one should cut sausage and carve tent steaks without any issues. It will split wood too, but I would still use an axe for that, haha. The sale is until Feb 3.
CPM 3V is one of the toughest steels out there, has better edge retention and stain resistance than all low alloy steels (what is usually referred to as “carbon steel”). Needless to say, it still needs to be taken care of (such as do not leave wet, etc).
Edit: Just looked it up and the estimated hardness is 58-60 HRC, which should probably put it at or about your average D2 knife in terms of edge retention, but 2.5+ times as tough as that same knife.