4 Pack 12x1.5x0.12 1095 Steel Flat Stock with Strict Quality Standards, The Perfect Knife Making Steel for Professional & Hobbyist Use, Annealed High Carbon Steel for DIY Knife Making - by TITGGI…

Really nice clean steel. Each piece is wrapped individually and nicely packed together to protect during shipping. Very clean which produced very nice blades.

So yeah, steel arrived in good packaging, nicely oiled so zero corrosion. It was also perfectly flat, unlike the last 1095 i bought from a different supplier. I traced out a pattern went to rough cut the excess steel and watched as annihilated the diamond edge on an expensive Diablo Metal cut-off wheel i love using. I grabbed a good Nicholson metal file and it skated right off the steel. I just started making knives and while my little diy forge is great for heating a knife to non-magnetic for hardening, i just dont have the ability to heat it for the duration and temp level in order to do a proper anneal. I guess its time to step up and make an annealing box or maybe even build an oven of sorts.

The blanks I received were well packaged and look good. Today I tried to cut one to make an iron for a wooden hand plane. The steel I received was not annealed and was not workable. Im very disappointed.

Actual dimensions were 12 (almost exactly), x 1.493 x .160. So it wasnt quite as wide as advertised. However the corners were cut very square and werent rounded over like other steel I have used in the past. This means I can push the spine all the way to the edge instead of losing some width to compensate. So even though this is 0.007 too small, the usable billet of steel is the same effective size as others I have used. All three pieces are exactly the same as each other, so clearly a consistent product. Packaging was great & all were unblemished & rust free. Pretty happy overall.

Very lightweight I was surprised I great item for making knives

Steel checks out. Straight as a line, and came in individually wrapped papers with plastic lining, that was bundled together with several layers of plastic wrap that was then put inside a soft pack. No rust, you cant ask for more care than that.

The product is good, its 1095. No cracks or scratches on it. 1095 forges easily and is good steel, thats about all I can say, as it just a billet.

Each billet has a pretty decent curve to it. Surface finish is nice, but as a knife maker this bend kinda screws me over.

This is advertised as a 4 pack but only had 2 in the package.

Product is not annealed. If they lie about that in title, than the steel quality can not be trusted. Do not purchase!