Heat Treated Knife Blanks for Knife Making

Heat treated knife blanks for knifemakers: ground, hardened and ready for your handle. Each blank starts as a laser cut profile, is ground in our Istanbul workshop, then heat treated at Voestalpine, the mill behind Böhler and Uddeholm steel. Choose by steel below, fit your scales or block, and finish the knife. Blades ship sharpened unless you ask otherwise, and laser engraving is free.

Knife steel chart

The ratings compare our own steels with each other.

The hardness is published

Look at how blade blanks are usually sold and you will notice something missing. “Heat treated.” “Hardened.” “Consistent hardness.” Almost nobody prints an actual number.

We do, on every product page: 1.4116 at 54-57 HRC, N690 at 58-60, AEB-L at 60, Sleipner at 60-62, Elmax at 60-61, Vanax at 60, M390 at 60-61, Vanadis 4 Extra at 63-64. That number matters more than the steel name; a soft premium steel underperforms a properly hardened budget one, and you cannot tell them apart by looking.

Why we can print it

We buy steel directly from Voestalpine. After laser cutting, our blades are hand ground in our own workshop on belt grinders using jigs made for each profile (a few full flat models are CNC ground), then the ground blades go back to the mill for heat treatment. Industrial vacuum furnaces, documented cycles, and a cryogenic step for the powder steels. No scale, no decarburised layer, and the same hardness batch after batch.

Choosing a blade

Browse by steel: stainless, powder metallurgy or carbon and tool steel. Every blade ships sharpened or unsharpened, your choice, with free laser engraving of your name.

Buying for a workshop or a store? As a knife blade supplier we also take bulk orders and make your own designs: see wholesale knife blanks. For the rest of your knife making supplies, see handle materials, pins and liners.

New to this? Start with turning a blade blank into a finished knife.