One of the newer steels catching on, CPM-15V steel has a colossal amount of vanadium carbides in it. Vanadium Carbides are extremely hard and add a lot of wear restistance to a steel. Before, adding this much vanadium to a steel would have made it extremely brittle, but with the addition of the Partical Metalurgy process and changes in how it is forged and heat treated, the vanadium carbides are small enough to give the steel reasonable toughness. You can compare the toughness of CPM-15V to the very popular CPM-20CV and M390 stainless steels.
CPM-15V is a non-stainless high carbon steel.
Typical Chemistry:
Carbon (C) 3.40%, Manganese (Mn) 0.50%, Silicon (Si) 0.90%, Chromium (Cr) 5.25%, Vanadium (V) 14.50%, Molybdenum (M) 1.30%, and Sulfur (S) 0.07%. You can see Crucible's data sheet for CPM-15V here. Below we will show all knives available for sale with CPM-15V.
