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About CPM S30V (Crucible Powder Metallurgy steel)  This is no
ordinary knife. The steel listed above is the only steel
expressly formulated and made for knife blades so far. It is
made by Crucible Steel Corp. in Pennsylvania, a speciality steel
firm for the process industry.  Nothing is normal about this
steel. It is not made by melting/rolling/forging as a normal
steel would be, but rather by the molten mix in the blast
furnace being forced thru ceramic injector spray nozzles into a
room where the mist of steel particles cools before it hits the
floor. These particles are then scooped up and compressed under
heat and pressure into the steel you see.   Why do this?  It
turns out this method of steel making allows alloy percentages
in the basic iron/carbon melt that are far above what could be
used before, since doing so by normal methods would only cause
the extra alloys to precipate back out upon cooling.  This means
relatively large percentages of