Spyderco Salt Knives

H-1 is an extraordinary Japanese steel that uses nitrogen instead of carbon to create its steel matrix. The result is an austenitic steel that does not require heat treatment, gets harder and tougher with use and is absolutely impervious to rust! Spyderco's Atlantic Salt combines this amazing blade material with a sheepfoot folder design to yield a versatile mariner's knife that is completely at home in the water...

Myth becomes reality with the Spyderco Pacific Salt rust-free knife. Conventional wisdom used to be that a knife with a powerful edge will rust. That's because steels that don't rust are usually unable to hold a cutting edge for any measurable amount of time...

Spyderco's Tasman Salt folder combines our exclusive H-1 steel with a Hawkbill blade design to yield an exceptional mariner's knife. H1 is an extraordinary Japanese steel that uses nitrogen instead of carbon to create its steel matrix...

A commonly known rule of cutlery is that the less susceptible a blade is to rust, the less likely it is to be able to hold an edge over time. Thanks to a forward-thinking Japanese steel foundry, however, that's no longer the case...

This distinctive curved cutting tool has a claw-like tip that originated in the marine/commercial fishing industry. Hawkbill blade is made of H-1 steel, which is a precipitation-hardened steel containing nitrogen instead of carbon, which cannot rust.