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1095 annealed high-carbon knife steel billet
Knife Blade Steel 1095 Annealed High Carbon Steel for DIY Knife Making Blade Steel Billet Bar Blanks
$10.66 CAD
Steel Billet: a steel billet in 1095 on the knife making shelf. 1095 is simple high-carbon steel. It will patina; keep it oiled. A bar or sandwich billet for forging or stock removal. This is steel, not a knife. Normalize, grind, and heat-treat before you call it a blade. Match the size on your platen before it ships.
- Listed as
- Knife Blade Steel 1095 Annealed High Carbon Steel for DIY Knife Making Blade Steel Billet Bar Blanks
- SKU
- KV-121
- Steel
- 1095
- Listed type
- steel billet
- Finish
- 1095 carbon steel billet
- Category
- Knife Making
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Product details
About Steel Billet
Annealed 1095 bar stock, not a heat-treated blade
This card is Steel Billet — “Knife Blade Steel 1095 Annealed High Carbon Steel for DIY Knife Making Blade Steel Billet Bar Blanks.” Steel listed: 1095. Condition named: annealed. That means it is soft enough to saw and grind; it is not a finished knife and it will not hold an edge until you heat-treat it.
SKU KV-121. Finish: 1095 carbon steel billet. 1095 is simple high-carbon steel. It will patina. Oil it in the shop. It is not stainless, not Damascus cladding, not M390.
Bar blanks are for stock removal or forging after you cut them to length. The listing does not print a millimetre cross-section in the JSON spec table; match the photos and the supplier title. Annealed 1095 will rust in a damp Canadian basement faster than the stainless kitchen knives on the other shelf — wipe it.
This is the cheapest way on this shelf to own blade steel, and the most work. If you wanted a finished chef’s knife tonight, leave the knife-making aisle. If you wanted to grind a camp knife, stay. Priced in CAD, adults 18+, tracked from The Knife Vault.
What annealed buys you
Annealed 1095 files and drills. Hardened 1095 fights a file. If you skip heat-treat, you have a grey metal ruler, not a camp knife. Normalize, grind, quench, temper — the listing does not include a heat-treat oven.
- Steel: 1095, annealed, high carbon, for DIY knife making as titled.
- SKU: KV-121. Form: bar / billet blanks.
- Not a folding knife, not a kitchen set, not handle rivets.
After it is a blade
Oil 1095 in use. A wet sheath will rust it. Sharpen with a file and a stone; diamond is optional, not required. Priced in CAD, knife-making shelf, adults 18+.
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