Knife Engineering: Steel, Heat Treating, and Geometry

One of the best books I've brought I like fact books and it's full of useful information

One of the best guides ever

Excellent source of knowledge, easy to understand and provides a lot of in depth knowledge for those that want to really understand different types of steel.

This is the full version and not the truncated Australian version that the publisher decided to shorten without the authors consent. At 428 pages this is very comprehensive and well written. Often I find PHD’s can produce text that start off fluidly and soon stray into PHD level script. Dr Larrin Thomas communicates consistently and at a level I can understand. I wasn’t aware of this book or Larrin until Onur Caglar diesineveryfilm YouTube and Instagram recommended it. I ordered and was pleasantly surprised by the wealth of subject matter from a highly credible expert. Check out knifesteelnerds on Instagram.

I have been interrogating Larrin's website for a few months and the wealth and bredth of knowledge within his site is staggering. What this book does is lay out that content in an easy way to understand and, most importantly in a structure and format that takes you on a knowledge journey so that you don't need to keep referring back and forth. For anybody that is interested in why certain steels behave in their certain ways or, why one type of steel seems to perform better or worse dependent upon its use etc., then this book will be a fascinating read for you. Superb!

I have not read this book from cover to cover but have instead used it as a reference for specific steels and for garnering information on certain topics. Larin knows his stuff and continues to develops his theories. Highly recommended

Cracking book full of useful information broken down into terms the layman can understand! Also written by an absolute Gentleman!!

The Magnum Opus of accessible knife steel information.