Bladesmithing: The Top 4 Steels Every Beginner Should Know 

Pops Knife Supply, Maritime Knife Supply, New Jersey Steel Baron, Alpha Knife Supply, Jantz Knife Supply, are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Industrial scrap yards or auto shops sometimes have large bearings or medium carbon steel shafts too. I've been working with 52100 from a 105 kg roller bearing assembly that came out of a massive industrial lathe.

It's good to see that you've gained so much more confidence in your videos Nils, much respect sir

ordered from Ground flat stock GFS in the UK a couple of times, nice people and it was fast but now with brexit it takes far longer so last time I switched to Eurotechni went smooth

Very informative and helpful video!

Here in the US if you need knife or edge steel. Jantz Knife Supply, or Pops Knife Supply keep good stocks of high carbon steels. In Canada Maritime Knife Supply does the same. Maritime will also ship to the US. New Jersey Steel Baron does have the best selection of any tool or knife steel I know of. The first three I mentioned also stock quench oils

Mycket bra upplysningar, du förklarar mycket bra. Din info är nerskreven i min anteckningsbok, bra jobbat Nils 😊

Love this type of teaching and Thanks, Your English is better than my is as I'm from the "Hillbilly " area of the USA . I just was advised 10 95 and I'm thinking close to your 1075 .My first time buying new steel and probably should have done it sooner but I was getting spring steel free. Great job teaching Sir Thanks

Very good of you to share information like that, what you have said will be a big help to anyone starting out 👍. Regards from Down Under.

Hi Nils. Just came across this video and wanted to add that McMaster-Carr is also a great place to get all different steels even in small quantity. I've bought from them, blacksmiths supply and Centaur Forge for other blacksmith things/goodies. Hope it helps~

Always great info thanks. next ime im in your area It would be great if I could visit with you , I really enjoy your vids and how you explain how to do projects my son and I r3ecently did an axe from your vids abvout the folding style ax since we dont have a power hammer it made that project very doable and it came out pretty good for our first try.

Excellent review of suitable steels, and tips to decode the numbering system. Since I'm in Sweden, your hints where to buy from were helpful as well. Cheers.

Great video! Pops knife supply is a good site for some steel as well, and normally a bit cheaper. However if they are out of your steel you can be put on a notification list to be notified when they get it in stock.

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Great video ! Yes Eurotechni is a great place to buy steel !!!

Very informative and helpful, thank you, Nils!

all of these are great, steels, especially 1075 for sword/axe making, but if you want to make small(ish) knives, 1084 is the best imho. it's a simple high carbon steel that sits right at the eutectoid point and has the highest amount of carbon that you can have in a steel without having to be super careful about how you work with it. 1095 for example is beyond the eutectoid point, so it's quite a bit harder to work with, even though it only has a little bit more carbon. more about how heat treatment works here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6jQ4y0LK1kY.html&ab_channel=RealEngineering working with 1080/1084 steel here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TBIiWwawKSY.html&ab_channel=RedBeardOps

Great video. Very well explained and every information video. Thanks so much. Can't wait to see more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God Bless.

My favorite is Pop's Knife Supply in the USA. Also Hudson Tool Steel for some things. I am a beginner also great video.

Saw the Titel and thought : C45, Springsteel, C75. So I totaly agree. I'm still using them a lot.

Hi Nils, thanks for the video mate it was very informative. As it happens I already have a LOT of 5160, in the form of car leaf springs, for when I get started which hopefully will be soon. The one thing that I am having a little bit of trouble with is finding a form of foundry cement in Australia that is equivalent to cast o lite 30 Li and ITC 100. I swear a light bulb came on in my head when you mentioned the word "equivalent"... I don't know, we have a new puppy, it's been a ruff week LOL 😳 😅 Thanks again Nils ⚒️👍👍

for absolute beginners s235jr (st37) is just about good enough for everything. even for simple knifes...(yes you can cold work or case harden it). for me, reforging old hammerheads into little hatchets is my focus know due to the lack of heavy machinery. high carbon steel tends to be too much for beginners in terms of forging and heat treating temperatures.

Very helpful and informative!

There is also Abrams Steel. They are in Germany but they also have places in other european countries. I used to buy 90mcv8/O2 steel there

Exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks bud

Great information mate.

Meget brugbar information, tak. Stål er noget af en jungle at finde rundt i.

Har du prövat smida och värmebehandla 2541 till hårdare ändamål, typ eggverktyg? Det är ju ett seghärdat stål och bearbetningsbart från fabrik. Mvh

But 1095 is soooo goooddd lol but understandable not suggesting it

Du sa att man kunde åka till metallsoptippar men jag hittar inga,vet du var det finns några bra?

O1 is not pleasant to forge. H13 is also not fun.

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