Knife Material Guide

[bent1]

Found this interesting, especially the blade materials section.

Knife Blade Shapes Guide - Drop Point, Tanto, Kukri, and More | Blade HQ

Read as we explain all the most popular knife blade shapes available today. We show pictures and talk about the benefits of each blade shape with examples.

www.bladehq.com

 

[spicy_boiii]

Completely non-scientific, but I like to look up the percentages of the different elements in a particular steel and compare them to something I'm intimately familiar with.

Same for scale and liner material, etc.