What is RWL 34 steel?
RWL34, a steel made by powder metallurgy RWL34 is a steel manufactured by Damasteel®, a Swedish company that masters the principle of powder metallurgy to perfection. This very particular technique consists in making steel by sintering, contrary to the traditional fusion technique.
How hard is Damasteel?
It has incomparable toughness and strength combined with excellent edge retention and corrosion resistance. This allows for a very user friendly Damascus steel that is made to be abused. Excellent edge retention and corrosion resistance.
Where is Damasteel located?
Söderfors
Damasteel is a modern, trademarked as well as patented powder steel process of making damascus steel. Damasteel (also the name of the company) is located in Söderfors, Sweden, a village with a long history of forging damascus steel.
What is Damacore?
Damasteel’s stainless Damascus patterned steel, Damacore® DC18N is a powder metallurgy-based steel with three different alloys. The Damascus patterned outer layers consists of RWL34™ and PMC27™. They are both variants of martensitic stainless steel with a minimum of 13 percent chromium content.
How good is RWL 34?
RWL34™, a martensitic steel with exceptional properties Its design guarantees solidity, hardness after quenching and purity at all times; It is particularly resistant to corrosion; The cutting edge is maintained over time, and the quality of cut does not weaken; It is easy to work, grind and polish.
What is Damasteel made of?
The center core consists of N11X™, a high nitrogen alloyed steel with distinctive properties. The Damascus patterned outer layers consists of RWL34™ and PMC27™. These three alloys combined in Damasteel’s process gives the Damacore DC18N® unique and exceptional properties that combines beauty and function.
Can you forge Damasteel?
The method. The traditional Damascus patterned steel is produced by welding two types of steel in typically seven layers. Then one forge out and fold the piece repeatedly until one gets over one hundred layers in their piece.
Is Damasteel hard to sharpen?
It is therefore not that surprising that some people ask if you can sharpen a damascus steel blade. The answer is short and simple. You can easily sharpen a knife with a blade made from damascus steel. In fact: there is no difference between sharpening any other knife and sharpening a damascus steel knife.
Is Civivi Damascus real?
DON’T BE FOOLED. While this knife looks nice, IT IS NOT DAMASCUS. This knife is laser etched to look like Damascus, but is not true Damascus steel.
What is Vanax steel?
Uddeholm Vanax SuperClean is the long-awaited response to the market’s need for steel that is both strong and stainless. Combining the corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steel such as AISI 316L, with a hardness of 60 HRC and the wear resistance of a cold work tool steel, opens up new opportunities.