A quick check of AG Russell's web site shows more than thirty different steels that are used in knife making. Perhaps the best known of these has been known for years as "surgical steel". The rest of the world calles it 440C.
As a knife maker you have to choose a steel that you can grind and still be hard enough to hold an edge. As a knife user, some of knives that I have used with great success have been one version of 440C or another.
What is the point of all this? 440 is a good steel for a beginning maker to use. There are better steels of course, but it is a good place to start.
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