1095 Steel Flat Stock for Knife Making-Annealed High Carbon Steel,Flat Steel Bars,12x1.5x0.12,4 Pack

Nice clean precut lengths Just right to make into a knife or a tool. 1095 is easy to. Work with... easy to harden and easy to temper. It makes fine knives that take a wicked edge . Good small parts for machines.... good tools... and treatment is snap. Im happy and this works well

The good thing about these is that they do come well packaged. All four pieces are wrapped at once in the paper though, so nothing between each piece of steel. VERY light rust prevention oil (almost imperceptible), but it is there. All four pieces do measure 1.500 by 12. They are not quite 0.12 thick, though. My measurements ranged from 0.1145 - 0.1180 thick across each piece. Do not make the assumption that these are 1/8 thick because they are not. two of pieces seem to be quite flat, but two of the pieces have a bend and will require flattening. Overall, I cant say not to buy them for the price, but know what to expect when you receive them.

Remember, this is high carbon steel, so measures will need to be taken to keep it from rusting. Other than that, it is good knife blank material.

Good steel! Personally, I think they’re best to cut up and layer for some pattern welding, which is how I’ll be using them. They’re awfully thin at 1/8, but if you don’t take anything off the spine, you could make a decent smaller blade. They came clean, oiled to prevent rust, and wrapped in moisture-proof paper. Really happy with these blanks.

Steel was carefully and securely wrapped in oil paper. A few scratches on some of the bars. The dimensions (see pictures) are slightly less than the 12 x 1/2 x 1/8. Two bars were pretty straight, but the third one had a slight bow. These bars are going to be cut, ground, heat treated, etc, so none of theses things IMHO are major issues, but I point them out for anyone who is relying on specific dimensions for their project.

My son bent a piece in half with his bare hands. He tried to forge one of the pieces into a knife, but it was too thin to work with very easily.

I had no trouble getting this uo to temp and making a knife, it hardened very well with no cracks. great quality

This seems like good metal. I dont know how to verify its properties, but as I use it more, Ill update this if anything changes. Came wrapped well enough. You can see it was not cut up carefully, the ends are still rough with burrs, but not terrible. Couple dings here and there, but nothing that will cause a problem. Dont expect perfect pieces. So far I like it, would recommend.

These were nice and flat with accurate dimensions. They were wrapped in oil paper and were also oiled with a smooth clean finish. Pretty good for flat stock.

Quality metal ready to be turned into a knife