Steel History - The First Stainless Steel Was for Knives

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One of the saddest chapters in steel history involves that great man who is mentioned in the book and on the website you posted: Benno Strauss. He was a pioneer of stainless steel working for Krupp of Germany and he was put into a death camp during the Nazi takeover of Germany, and he died. Later on Germany gave an official apology and named a street after the man.

Here is some info on him:
It is in German but you can translate it

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno_Strau%C3%9F

That is very good history on Bearley and the original stainless steel knives.

Is this true? A custom knife maker told me that one of the main reasons why many knife users were not trusting towards the use of stainless steel blades in serious work knives until the s was because up until the s and s, most stainless steel had a bad reputation for being poor at edge holding and was more fragile, and it was in the 60s and onwards that more robust stainless alloys began to be developed that could stand up to the use in knives and cutting tools. How true do you think this is? They claimed that the Swedes and Finns began to produce better quality stainless steel blades and then others followed, with Japan and the USA and Germany and so on and so forth, and then he claimed the famous custom makers like Bob Loveless and a few others began to bring quality stainless into the market, and those combined efforts helped to improve stainless steel in the eyes of knife users.

He claimed that if you had gotten ahold of say an average stainless steel bladed hunting knife made around the s or s or even into the 50s, the quality would have been so low when it came to edge holding ability that you would have quickly gone back to carbon steel.
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THANK YOU Larrin! Wow in some ways you and I think alike. I read that steel history book, and it has become one of my favorites.One of the saddest chapters in steel history involves that great man who is mentioned in the book and on the website you posted: Benno Strauss. He was a pioneer of stainless steel working for Krupp of Germany and he was put into a death camp during the Nazi takeover of Germany, and he died. Later on Germany gave an official apology and named a street after the man.Here is some info on him:It is in German but you can translate itThat is very good history on Bearley and the original stainless steel knives.Is this true? A custom knife maker told me that one of the main reasons why many knife users were not trusting towards the use of stainless steel blades in serious work knives until the s was because up until the s and s, most stainless steel had a bad reputation for being poor at edge holding and was more fragile, and it was in the 60s and onwards that more robust stainless alloys began to be developed that could stand up to the use in knives and cutting tools. How true do you think this is? They claimed that the Swedes and Finns began to produce better quality stainless steel blades and then others followed, with Japan and the USA and Germany and so on and so forth, and then he claimed the famous custom makers like Bob Loveless and a few others began to bring quality stainless into the market, and those combined efforts helped to improve stainless steel in the eyes of knife users.He claimed that if you had gotten ahold of say an average stainless steel bladed hunting knife made around the s or s or even into the 50s, the quality would have been so low when it came to edge holding ability that you would have quickly gone back to carbon steel.

Also, pictures of knives don't hurt noone, thus it'd be wonderful if you can post a pic of some earlier stainless knives, either from the time stainless was a sort of trial material or when they picked up more.

Cheers,
Žan

I was wondering, did American cutleries try stainless steel on knives earlier than, say, Sheffield or elsewhere in Europe? I know Americans tried it out pretty much as soon as it appeared yet it didn't do all that well with the customers and really cought on only decades later, after ww2. I get the impression that it then got more of a hold in Europe than in America. Where I'm from anything with "rostftei" stamped on it is synonymous with "German quality" and automatically well regarded, with carbon blades kind of going out of fashion almost completely with your average Joe. On the other hand it seems carbon steel has persisted in America more or at least longer. Do you think this is true or do you have different thoughts regarding this matter? Feel free to elaborate, although this shouldn't be based ony what you personally preffer more.Also, pictures of knives don't hurt noone, thus it'd be wonderful if you can post a pic of some earlier stainless knives, either from the time stainless was a sort of trial material or when they picked up more.Cheers,Žan

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