>>1120014>You need to get into the "super" steels to get any noticable difference.no, you don't. Pic related. 1095 steel, with edge retention that laughs at super steels.
Having a very good heat treat, with the right geometry (means using very little force to actually cut) works a lot better, than the steel itself.
Case in point - I recently did some chopping with my scandi grind lt wright (a few planks that needed to go from "square" to "sharp enough to stick in the ground" during a recent HFT shoot, and chopping was the expedient way to do it) - knife was still paper-cutting sharp afterwards (and by "paper-cutting sharp" I mean cutting standard post-it notes slowly, and with minimal force).
