[Brother Jeeter]

My previous post was a very generalized thumbnail sketch of Steel and the making of it. However there are only so many ways of making Steel, such as Open Hearth, Basic Oxygen and Electric Furnace. They are different ways to product the same thing, Steel! There are only so many additives that will positively impact the alloy. 'Get you what you want' so to speak.
I am relatively certain that Steel production is pretty standard across the industrialized world. What I am getting at is that the businesses that sold the blanks that Razor manufacturers used, DIDN'T use Mild Steel, Drawing Quality Steel, or some "Mystery Grade" of Steel! It WAS definitely some grade of HIGH Carbon Steel. It HAD to be, in order to be hardened by heat treating. What the other additives were, is anybody's guess, without an analysis. Probably Manganese, maybe Vanadium, possibly Chromium, or Molybdenum. I don't know. Each of these metals will produce beneficial results in the Steel. I am not a Metallurgist, so I am not an expert in 'Steel recipes' but I don't believe the Steel producers were shooting in the dark. They knew what they were doing and they could make the product the customer wanted. If not, their replacement could.