2003 S&M Premier - what steel?

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2003 S&M Premier - what steel?

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Anyone know what steel was used for the 2003 Premier series? No indication on the tangs or the box

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420HC.
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Railsplitter wrote:420HC.
Thank you very much!
My stag railsplitter is marked stainless but I couldn't find anything on this one.
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Rotten wrote:
Railsplitter wrote:420HC.
Thank you very much!
My stag railsplitter is marked stainless but I couldn't find anything on this one.
You're welcome. If memory serves me correctly, the Premiere Series were all SFO's for Clarence Risner and I believe they were all 420HC. I'm also under the impression that the "Queen Steel" label on the box means 420HC.

None of that is carved in stone. Just what I seem to remember.
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Railsplitter wrote:
Rotten wrote:
Railsplitter wrote:420HC.
Thank you very much!
My stag railsplitter is marked stainless but I couldn't find anything on this one.
You're welcome. If memory serves me correctly, the Premiere Series were all SFO's for Clarence Risner and I believe they were all 420HC. I'm also under the impression that the "Queen Steel" label on the box means 420HC.

None of that is carved in stone. Just what I seem to remember.
Makes me wish someone saved a copy of the queen website before it went down. I loved surfing through it reading.

I did contact Austin, Clarence Risner's grandson, and he did confirm that all of the Premier series knives were SFO for his grandad. Didn't think to ask about the steel though.
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Re: 2003 S&M Premier - what steel?

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the original "Queen Steel" was 440C.
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