Very interesting results, I sharpened mine with diamonds and the edge came out extremely aggressive I was very impressed with its sharpness, I also laid the edge pretty far, I'm impressed with these results, I'm curious how well it does at low angles, and if it would do great at low angles or if it might result in micro chipping
.I bought a Chis Reeve green beret clone in DC53 and it is awesome. Cuts just like between a cruwear and 5160 spring steel.Small grains makes DC53 a cutting machine.
@@allthingsknives From your data and testing the knife steel did well at that HRC compared to some at 61+. This steel is tougher, holds it's edge longer, and has smaller carbides than D2. Only downside is it is more prone to rust.
@@allthingskniveskeep in mind dit isa budget blade. You get up to 63-64 and sharpening will be a pita for beginner sharpening, and they will th7mb down the knife.
Looking at the chemical formula, DC53 is a steel that gets my attention. It looks like a tough tool steel that can hold an adequate edge. I think the lower chromium in the steel makes it easier to heat treat, and it is not a powder metallurgy steel. Both of those criteria help keep cost down.
Definitely compare it to Civivi, they probably have the best Chinese D2 going. My CJRB has preformed good too but overall I’d have to say Civivi has it dialed down.
I first saw the steel on a sitivian knife and am curious about it. Certainly looks better than budget steels. I would reccomend cleaning your ceramics, i use brasso. Its instant clean. And the makers of ceramics do say they are impervious to chemicals and theyre harder than the silica abrasive in it, ive had that debate before lol.
I was curious about this steel. I wish it was as corrosion resistant as 14C28N. Then I would classify it as a super steel especially if they could treat it to 64hrc
I would say even w/ more corrosion resistance not a super steel but a very good ingot steel. It’s not really super in any one way. Like even middle of the road super steels excel in at least one area. Take cruwear for example a great all around steel like Nitro V but it’s wear resistance is a lot greater and it’s toughness is amazing. Not especially corrosion resistant (just enough) and sharpening although easy needs some experience.
If it was corrosion resistant that still wouldn't put it in the class of super steels. Dc53 is a solid preforming budget steel but that's about all it is.
Speaking of geometry, you should try sharpening the edge at 22-25 degrees and then see how that does. 17 degrees is very shallow for how you tested the blade. It takes higher molybdenum content to sharpen at such an acute angle.
Cool review. But the whole point of a good stainless steel is that the manufacturers have to stand on their heads to make it perform as good as carbon steel (which is impossible) and at a much higher cost. DC53 is even less "stainless" than D2 - it has to perform better - otherwise what is the purpose of it?
@@allthingsknives It was a very interesting and informative review. I remember how in the good old days in my country they would find a huge suspension spring from a truck and make a knife out of it that would go through a tin can like through butter and would almost never need sharpening. Of course it would rust like hell so you had to take care of it. Have you ever tested a good carbon steel knife? Would be interesting to get the numbers.
@@vrokhlenkoBPS knives - Ukraine knife company. They use 1066 with a good heat treat. Super tough and edge retention like a higher carbon % steel. Evidently it’s sourced from old Soviet spring steel. Great bushcraft and hunting knives at a great (
@@undertow2142 The absolute best soviet steel was used in the spring of kalashnikov sub-machine gun or rifle - whatever you call it. Its abbreviation was "K40NXM". It was a very complex alloy that last time I checked (about 20 years ago) was 400 USD per kilo and impossible to source in Ukraine due to an almost complete collapse of economy. In the soviet times it was not available to the individuals - my father tried to get it for a custom speargun he was making. There is no such thing as "spring" steel - there is a spring temper. In the ussr individuals tried to make knives from the trucks' shock absorbers - it was a high quality carbon steel that rusted like crazy.
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Cruwear is the powered metallurgy version of DC53. Crucible used this steel in development of Cruwear. Very similar except Cruwear has more vanadium.
Shows in the higher amounts of wear resistance
Very interesting results, I sharpened mine with diamonds and the edge came out extremely aggressive I was very impressed with its sharpness, I also laid the edge pretty far, I'm impressed with these results, I'm curious how well it does at low angles, and if it would do great at low angles or if it might result in micro chipping
If I had to guess, the Rockwell would need to be increased to increase edge stability, but this steel could do it
They are coming out with a 3.5 version
.I bought a Chis Reeve green beret clone in DC53 and it is awesome. Cuts just like between a cruwear and 5160 spring steel.Small grains makes DC53 a cutting machine.
Awesome! I like the knife. Steel is ok. I have a few Chinese DC53 fixed blades. The sharpen great though.
Always sharpened easily
DC53 is very similar to Bohler Sleipner steel +/- a few elements here and there but very close to each other. Both can go up to 64 HRC.
I wish they ran it that hard, but they only went up to 58-60
@@allthingsknives From your data and testing the knife steel did well at that HRC compared to some at 61+. This steel is tougher, holds it's edge longer, and has smaller carbides than D2. Only downside is it is more prone to rust.
@@Tkz9000 yeah not too worried about corrosion here in Arizona
But +/- a "few" elements changes the steel a little to more.
@@allthingskniveskeep in mind dit isa budget blade. You get up to 63-64 and sharpening will be a pita for beginner sharpening, and they will th7mb down the knife.
Looking at the chemical formula, DC53 is a steel that gets my attention. It looks like a tough tool steel that can hold an adequate edge.
I think the lower chromium in the steel makes it easier to heat treat, and it is not a powder metallurgy steel. Both of those criteria help keep cost down.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this does.
Me too
Migueron is making some nice knifes, the front flipper Jerad over at Neeves Knifes just got is amazing.
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Lol I've never even heard of DC53 😂 great video man.
It’s on the new Miguron Knives, that’s a newer brand
@@allthingsknives very cool man..I learn something new every day 🙂
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Definitely compare it to Civivi, they probably have the best Chinese D2 going. My CJRB has preformed good too but overall I’d have to say Civivi has it dialed down.
You said it right the first time, Silicon not silicone.
I first saw the steel on a sitivian knife and am curious about it. Certainly looks better than budget steels. I would reccomend cleaning your ceramics, i use brasso. Its instant clean. And the makers of ceramics do say they are impervious to chemicals and theyre harder than the silica abrasive in it, ive had that debate before lol.
I was curious about this steel. I wish it was as corrosion resistant as 14C28N. Then I would classify it as a super steel especially if they could treat it to 64hrc
I would say even w/ more corrosion resistance not a super steel but a very good ingot steel. It’s not really super in any one way. Like even middle of the road super steels excel in at least one area. Take cruwear for example a great all around steel like Nitro V but it’s wear resistance is a lot greater and it’s toughness is amazing. Not especially corrosion resistant (just enough) and sharpening although easy needs some experience.
If it was corrosion resistant that still wouldn't put it in the class of super steels. Dc53 is a solid preforming budget steel but that's about all it is.
@@EDCandLace Yeah but I looked into it and it's supposed to be tougher than D2 and a lot easier to sharpen so that's unusual but in a good way
That knife, from what I've found, is made from 14c28n... ?
Speaking of geometry, you should try sharpening the edge at 22-25 degrees and then see how that does. 17 degrees is very shallow for how you tested the blade. It takes higher molybdenum content to sharpen at such an acute angle.
Sorry. My hearing is bad. I cant tell what you are saying that the knife make and model are.
Can you please tell me?
How is this steel with rust?
It’s coated and with that no problem sent it to a friend from the south and it was fine there
Cool review. But the whole point of a good stainless steel is that the manufacturers have to stand on their heads to make it perform as good as carbon steel (which is impossible) and at a much higher cost. DC53 is even less "stainless" than D2 - it has to perform better - otherwise what is the purpose of it?
It performed better than most D2 in terms of edge retention felt similar in terms of everything else though
@@allthingsknives It was a very interesting and informative review. I remember how in the good old days in my country they would find a huge suspension spring from a truck and make a knife out of it that would go through a tin can like through butter and would almost never need sharpening. Of course it would rust like hell so you had to take care of it. Have you ever tested a good carbon steel knife? Would be interesting to get the numbers.
@@vrokhlenko not yet but it’s in the works
@@vrokhlenkoBPS knives - Ukraine knife company. They use 1066 with a good heat treat. Super tough and edge retention like a higher carbon % steel. Evidently it’s sourced from old Soviet spring steel. Great bushcraft and hunting knives at a great (
@@undertow2142 The absolute best soviet steel was used in the spring of kalashnikov sub-machine gun or rifle - whatever you call it. Its abbreviation was "K40NXM". It was a very complex alloy that last time I checked (about 20 years ago) was 400 USD per kilo and impossible to source in Ukraine due to an almost complete collapse of economy. In the soviet times it was not available to the individuals - my father tried to get it for a custom speargun he was making. There is no such thing as "spring" steel - there is a spring temper. In the ussr individuals tried to make knives from the trucks' shock absorbers - it was a high quality carbon steel that rusted like crazy.
Why would you use a steel your not sure of!!?????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Damn that makes no sense. Looking forward to results!!
I like the results you got. Somewhere, out in the ocean 🌊 most likely, is the Velona I ordered almost 8 weeks ago. 😞.
That’s sucks I feel it