We're having a miscommunication, I'm not here to scold you.salimoneus wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 12:34 amFirstly, I literally covered every single point you made in my initial post.Deadboxhero wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:57 pmThese steels have the same chemistry, any nuisances will come down to differences in how you sharpen, and how sharp they are when you started. Next is whatever hardness range your exact knife is at. So until thats ruled out, its silly to argue about something that's basically the same.
The same steel will have batch to batch variation as well within a tolerance.
So don't argue about things that are basically statistical scatter.
Secondly, I'm not arguing anything. I'm just looking for data and opinions from people with actual real world experience. You are free to believe everything is the same simply because the composition says it should be equivalent, but I prefer to dig a little deeper. I'm just overly curious to a fault I guess.
But thanks for your thoughts and the scolding.
I'm just sharing my opinion and experience which may come from a different place with what I've gotten an opportunity to learn.
There's not really a good way to communicate tone in a forum post, so give people the benefit of the doubt.
In my post I'm just trying to be direct and concise, So, my apologies if it comes of as scolding, if it was directed that you or anyone specifically I would have quoted your/there post to mine.
I think its important that people aren't mislead that between m390, 20cv or 204p, one is better because there are other variables that are more important for why one is testing above the other, so it would rob people of the truth.