Quote Originally Posted by hoezap View Post
Thank you very much for the links Boyan Silyavski, however i can see both of your links talk about USA and not UK so may be in UK there are different roles... Thank you very much indeed again for your support

http://www.masteel.co.uk/armour-steel.htm
steel composition


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/n...wcased-at-dsei
look at google for bainite sword, so you will see how its done

most of the steels for one or another reason have been used in knife making/ a broad term which includes swordmaking too/ , so here is a very full interactive table of steels with their chemical properties for reference:
http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelchart.php

In this world they love to use "super" names but at the end of the day all will be some typical tool steel with sth little changed for added benefit. I looked at the american steel data and more or less it seems typical high carbon steel