Custom hand knives are precision cutting tools made from high‑carbon, stainless, or PM steels and shaped through grinding and heat treatment. Used in packaging, leather, food, plastics, and industrial trimming, they provide durable, accurate manual cutting performance.
Custom hand knives are manually operated cutting tools engineered for specialized industrial, craft, and processing applications. Their manufacturing process typically involves precision blanking or forging of the blade profile, followed by heat treatment to achieve the required hardness and toughness. Grinding and honing operations define the cutting geometry, including bevel angle, edge radius and blade curvature. Common blade materials include high‑carbon tool steels, stainless steels, powder‑metallurgical steels, and carbide‑tipped edges for high‑wear environments. Handles are produced from wood, polymers, aluminum, or composite materials and are ergonomically shaped for safe, repetitive use. Tooling for production involves CNC grinders, waterjet or laser cutting systems, heat‑treatment furnaces, and surface‑finishing equipment. Custom knives are widely used in packaging, leatherworking, food processing, plastics trimming, rubber cutting, textiles, and general maintenance tasks where controlled manual cutting, precision, and durability are required.
BÖHLER K390 MICROCLEAN is a high-alloyed, high-performance cold work tool steel manufactured using powder metallurgy. This material has the highest alloy content in the group of cold work tool steels with high vanadium content. The high alloy content gives this material outstanding wear resistance. At the same time, the powder metallurgical manufacturing process creates a uniform matrix with finely distributed primary carbides. Among other things, this leads to good material toughness. BÖHLER K390 MICROCLEAN is a problem solver for applications requiring extremely high wear resistance and compressive strength.
Read MoreBÖHLER K890 MICROCLEAN is a high-performance cold work tool steel manufactured using powder metallurgy. It features good toughness, very high compressive strength and excellent fatigue strength. This favorable combination of properties can avoid chipping damages to tools. BÖHLER K890 MICROCLEAN is not only used in cold work applications, but also in mold making.
Read MoreBÖHLER M390 MICROCLEAN is a corrosion-resistant, martensitic chromium steel produced by powder metallurgy. Due to its alloy design, this steel has very high wear resistance and good corrosion resistance. In addition, BÖHLER M390 MICROCLEAN is approved for food and beverage contact.
Read MoreBÖHLER N695 is a corrosion-resistant steel with 17%Cr and Mo-addition in the form of bars, wire, forgings, and forging stock. These products have been used typically for parts in general engineering and cutting and non cutting, medical applications , e.g. chisels, knives, osteotomes, scalpels drills, retractors, spreaders, tongs, balls, rollers, needles and rings for corrosion resistant bearings requiring hardness from 58 up to 60 HRC and resistance to wear, corrosion, and oxidation depending on parts design and application but usage is not limited to such applications.
Read MoreUddeholm Vanadis 8 SuperClean sets a new standard for Powder Metallurgical Tool Steel. The technological advancements makes this cold work tool steel superior to its predecessors. The unprecedented combination of extremely high wear and chipping resistance paired with improved machining properties raises production rates and reduces costs. Benefits Lower price per produced part Longer tool life Predictable Production Standard specification AISI D2 / AFNOR de type Z230VCD8.5.4
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