Who heat treats the Strider knives?
Paul Bos performs a UNIQUE to Strider heat treat on all Strider Knives.
The hardness for S30V is 59.5/60RC

Strider Knives, Inc. performs the heat treat on their Damascus blades.

Update 9/8/05
Per Mick Strider:

"We don't use Paul on ALL of our gear any longer.

When they (BUCK) made the move up to the new place, there was half a year with no heat treat. Paul founded the place we use here, and we still use his procedure. We just can't ship every knife to our ol uncle hot fingers any longer....

So rather than bother with the stamping of the knives he actually does....we just stopped stamping the logo."