Knife metal
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A knife metal is a metal, usually consisting of steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...

 or stainless steel
Stainless steel
In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French "inoxydable", is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 or 11% chromium content by mass....

, that is used to construct a knife
Knife
A knife is a cutting tool with an exposed cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with or without a handle. Knives were used at least two-and-a-half million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools...

 blade
Blade
A blade is that portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with a cutting edge and/or a pointed tip that is designed to cut and/or puncture, stab, slash, chop, slice, thrust, or scrape animate or inanimate surfaces or materials...

. Below is a list of various steel types for knives and their characteristics.
name. stainless? common? reference.
AUS-8 yes. very common. SOG website,blade magazine.
AUS 8A yes. common. BLADE magazine.
CPM S30V yes. common. BLADE magazine,kershaw website,spyderco website.
CPM 154 yes. fairly common. BLADE magazine,kershaw website.
154 CM yes. common. BLADE magazine.
440C yes. fairly common. BLADE magazine,spyderco website.
440A yes. unfairly common. spyderco website.
standard stainless. yes very common. BLADE magazine.
N690Co/cobalt vanadium no. uncommon. BLADE magazine,spyderco website.
8CR14 yes. uncommon. SOG website.
vg-10 no. very common. SOG website.
san-mai no. very uncommon. SOG website.
420 yes. common. spyderco website.
6cr12MOV no. uncommon. spyderco website.
7cr13 yes. common. spyderco website.
7cr17 MOV no. common. spyderco website.
8cr13 MOV no. uncommon. SOG website.
420j2 yes. very uncommon. SOG website,spyderco website,kershaw website
OU-31 no. rare. SOG website.
AUS 6 no. very uncommon. spyderco website.
3CR13 yes. uncommon. kershaw website.
12c27 sandvik yes. common. sandvik website.
13c26 sandvik yes. uncommon. sandvik website.
14C28N sandvik yes. uncommon. sandvik website.
19c27 sandvik yes. uncommon. sandvik website.
6c27 sandvik yes. common. sandvik website.
7c27M02 sandvik yes. common. sandvik website.
12C27M sandvik yes. very uncommon. sandvik website.
7CR13MOV no. uncommon.
AUS6A yes. very uncommon.
420HC yes. uncommon.
cpm-d2 no. very uncommon.
elmax© no. uncommon. kershaw website.
M390 yes. very uncommon.
cobalt special no. very uncommon. spyderco website.
52100 no. extremely uncommon. spyderco website.
9CR18MO no. uncommon. spyderco website.
ats-34 no. uncommon. spyderco website.
ats-55 no. very uncommon. spyderco website.
aus-10 no. uncommon. spyderco website.
BD1 no. very uncommon. spyderco website.
CPM-S35VN no. very uncommon. spyderco website.
CPM-S90V no. very uncommon. spyderco website.
CTS-20CP no. uncommon. spyderco website.
cts-bd1 no. very uncommon. spyderco website.
CTS-XHP no. uncommon. spyderco website.
gin-1 yes. very uncommon. spyderco website.
gin 1 no. Extremely uncommon. spyderco website.
MBS-26 yes. common. spyderco website.
MDS yes. extremely uncommon. spyderco website.
super blue no. rare. spyderco website.
d2 yes. common. spyderco website.
H-1 yes. very uncommon. spyderco website.
3cr no. uncommon. spyderco website.
o-1 no. uncommon. spyderco website.
ZDP-189 no. uncommon. spyderco website.
CPM-M4 no. uncommon. spyderco website.
CTS-BD30P no. uncommon. spyderco website.
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