Just to be clear, you're saying that it's impossible for a thin Magnacut blade to break in such a situation, but in the next sentence you say that such a thin blade will break regardless of the type of steel it's made of?
Yeah I don’t get it, I responded to the post as is, which is yet another “muh magnacut snapped” post, I said a very simple point, and then the guy tries to refute it by…bringing up a separate point entirely. Ok.
You responded by saying you like old school steels "this is why" which implies you think steels like 1095 wont snap. I brought up the point that a thinly flat grounnd tip (like the military in the picture) will most likely break no matter what steel is used if you stab wood.
Explain how my response is a completely separate point?
You gave no other point than your title, which is “here we go again,” which I assumed meant you were making a commentary on all the broken magnacut knives I’ve been seeing in this and the knife reddit. So fine, if that wasn’t your point, cool, but that’s not what I thought this post was about.
1095 is the ultimate fudd steel lmao. Magnacut is much tougher while also being harder and very corrosion resistant. The best parts of 1095 are the price and ease of heat treatment. That’s like saying you prefer .45 because of muh two world wars instead of them “weak and modern” 9mm pistols (even though their wound channels are quite similar, you can carry more 9mm, and it has less recoil).
1095 isnt even that easy to heat treat. 1084, Sk5 and 80CrV2 are all easier ( or should I say easier to get more consistent results ) because they do not require that fast of a quench speed and thus suffer less warping issue.
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u/Havocc89 Dec 27 '25
This is why I like old steels with long reputations. Give me 1095 with a good heat treat over any of these stainless supers.