420 steel. Looks fine, but don’t count too much on a decent edge for long.
Rockwell 50 is fairly soft for blade steel.
I don’t touch anything less than 57/58 for cutting edges.
OK for a utility pocket knife though.
Problem is that nowadays, all these “surplus” joints just sell mil-style new crap.
I got this nice cotton “army shirt” (damn, forgot what they’re called… the shirt equivalent of cargo-pants) that just ain’t made anymore. My washer did a number on it, started ripping at the seams from the propeller, and any more washes and it’d probably come out in pieces. New crap is poly-blend, not cotton. Hell if I can even find any all-cotton ones anymore.
Damn, way back, you could to pick up a pair of army boots and who knows, find part of a blowed-off toe inside or something. Now? Might as well just order some boots from REI or somewhere.
Just for s&g, I was looking for… think it’s Swiss camo: white, black, and red, made to look like fall foliage in snow or something. That pattern was tres kewl. Surplus? Yah, you could pick up one, probably. Now? Forget it.
Ah, just goggled it. Swiss Alpenflage. Dunno any authentic… probably made in China nowadays.
Yeah, the real stuff is hard to find now a days on the open market. Like you said, much of it is cheap knockoff stuff. . Certainly not what you could easily get 30 years ago.
I’ll ask around & see if anyone I know has an original SOG they want to part with… or knows of one. Don’t hold your breath though. But I’ll PM you if I locate one.
Nah, I saw plenty. Got Ka-Bar knives and the like, but I was hoping for an original.
There was a cheap and pretty decent fixed-blade I got a while ago from GB. “Knife with sharper” was the description. Holster’s a POS, but the knife is pretty decent.
Thing is, neither one had the “sharper” included. Pffft. :confounded: