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KA-BAR Knives Fin Folding Tanto Serrated Knife List Price: $67.27 Sale Price: $22.30 You save: $44.97 (67%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Description KA-BAR Knives, Inc. has been around since 1898

Mtech ChainLink Tactical Folding Pocket Knife with Aluminum Handle List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $4.64 You save: $5.35 (54%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Description The Mtech Extreme Tactical Folding Knife is a designer, collector's knife built for all-purpose utility, ideal for camping and outdoors use. Measuring 8.75 inches overall, the knife has a sharp, 3.75-inch blade forged of high-quality 440 stainless steel that folds into a precisely cut handgrip with a melt...

Gerber 31-000752 Bear Grylls Survival Series, Folding Sheath Knife List Price: $42.50 Sale Price: $18.45 You save: $24.05 (57%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Description The product of collaboration between Gerber and survival expert Bear Grylls, the Folding Sheath Knife is a compact knife that folds for easy storage and portability. A dual-sided thumb stud makes for easy one-handed opening...

M-Tech Folding Knife Stiletto Black List Price: $10.00 Sale Price: $3.88 You save: $6.12 (61%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Description 3 1/2 Inch Black Stainless Steel Blade Black Aluminum Handle Quick Opening Thumb Stud Pocket Clip Included 5 Inch Closed Length

Spyderco Tenacious G-10 Handle Folding Plain Edge Knife List Price: $54.95 Sale Price: $29.99 You save: $24.96 (45%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 6-10 business days Description The mid-sized Tenacious knife has a black G-10 laminate handle, milled with prolonged, fatigue-free cutting in mind. Tucked inside are skeletonized steel liners which increase the handle's rigidity and strength without adding non-functioning weight or bulky thickness...

Buck 110 Folding Hunter, Lockback Folding Knife List Price: $69.00 Sale Price: $34.99 You save: $34.01 (49%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Description The 110 Folding Hunter--Buck's signature knife--originally debuted in 1962, making it a good year for knife safety. The Folding Hunter is equipped with a nail-notch lockback design that opens easily and closes safely during any activity, ensuring that the knife never goes out of style...

Smith & Wesson CKTACBSD Tactical Serrated Drop Point Knife, Black List Price: $17.24 Sale Price: $11.35 You save: $5.89 (34%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Description black 3.5 in. 7Cr17 high carbon stainless steel blade with 4.6 in.posite handle. Includes thumb knob liner lock and index flipper

Kershaw Ken Onion Leek Folding Knife with Speed Safe Description The Leek series includes some of Kershaw's most popular knives, and the K.O. Leek serrated folding knife is no exception. This particular knife features a distinctive design by celebrated knife maker Ken Onion, who created the SpeedSafe ambidextrous assisted opening system...

Smith & Wesson SWFR2S Extreme Ops Knife with Coated Tanto Blade and Rubber Coated Handle, Black List Price: $33.17 Sale Price: $17.62 You save: $15.55 (47%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Description 3.3 in. 7Cr17 high carbon stainless steel blade with 4.5 in. special coated alluminum handle. Thumb knob liner lock and pocket clipATTRIBUTES Blade Detail: ComboEdge Blade Length (inches): 3.50 Blade Material: Stainless Black Carry System: Pocket Clip Handle Material: Black Rubber Coated Lock Style: Liner Lock Overall Length (inches): 8...

Smith & Wesson SWBG2TS Border Guard 2 Rescue Knife with 40% Serrated Tanto Blade, Glass Break, and Seatbelt Cutter, Black List Price: $34.66 Sale Price: $17.94 You save: $16.72 (48%)   Eligible for free shipping! Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Description 4.4 in. 7Cr17 high carbon stainless steel blade with 5.6 in. aluminum handle. Thumb knob safety belt cutter glass breaker and liner lock. ATTRIBUTES Blade Detail: ComboEdge Tanto Blade Length (inches): 4...

Is VG-1 Stainless Steel any good in a folding knife?

I've been looking for lots of info on this steel. Cold Steel uses it now in their knives replacing the AUS-8 steel. I was hoping somebody had a knife with this steel who could give me some real first hand knowledge not just numbers. Thanks!

So, I found your question interesting because there isn't alot known about VG1 steel yet. I happen to have a Calphon Kitchen knife made from VG1 and so far it has done fine, maintained a pretty good edge significantly longer than the AUS6 counterparts that I have in the kitchen with no issues of corrosion and takes a polished edge quite well.

I have quite a bit of experience with VG10 and out of curiosity have done some cutting comparisons. They aren't quite fair because the VG10 knives are field knives in comparison to a kitchen knives, but the VG1 specs as being softer than VG10 by a couple of points and performs that way, getting dull somewhat faster than the VG10. I haven't gone into checking imbrittlement because I don't want to chip out the edge of one of kitchen knives, but in looking at the chemistry it should be comparable to AUS8 steel.

Finally, one of the things I have liked about VG10 is that it takes an extremely fine edge, because the vanadium helps to provide uniform carbide distribution. I have done some work with polishing tape on the edge of the kitchen knife in comparison to the field knife and anecdotally think that the VG10 takes that super fine edge better. That's very subjective though.

Now, you specifically are asking in relation to AUS8 steel. So, I have a good deal of experience with that steel as well, but wasn't doing that comparison directly. However, across the different tests that I ran the VG1 performed quite comparably to AUS8 and fell somewhere between 440B and 440C. That is somewhat subjective as well as the knives I have in 440C have different edge geometry which effects how they cut.

However, overall, I was reasonably impressed with the VG1 steel performance. I probably wouldn't hesitate to pick up a field knife in VG1 to do some experimentation with sometime.

Thinkingblade

P.S. Oh, the tests I did? Well here is an approximate list:
- Cutting single ply cardboard from hair shaving sharp. (cereal boxes)
- Push cut through defrosted raw steak.
- Polished edge cut through notebook paper, cigarette paper, kleenex (none of them did that well at that level)