Nitro-V Stainless Blade Steel is a premium cutlery grade steel that meets the needs of the ever-expanding, knife making craftsman. It can be custom-tailored to customers’ wants and needs. As a martensitic stainless steel with chromium-based chemistry, it optimizes the best qualities of AEB-L but with an enriched formula using Nitrogen and Vanadium. This combination creates a new ferroalloy that offers exceptional edge performance, high hardness, and extreme corrosion resistance for a broad range of applications, especially marine and wet environments. Now with many boutique “super steels” readily available, Nitro V provides a reasonably priced, high-performance option that matches a knife maker’s needs, regardless their styles, niches, and customers. Nitro V is specifically formulated to suit the cutlery industry, but it is tough and versatile enough for pocket, kitchen, hunting, fishing, and tactical knives. For Nitro V Heat Treatment Recipe follow this link: NITRO-V STAINLESS BLADE STEEL - HEAT TREATMENT RECIPE