>>263770My comments were more "general case" than "those exact knives there are better than Helikon".
Yeah, mo' hype = mo' money, but thing get hyped up for a reason.
Sure, you can probably make a good 440A Knife and because of the all hype of other metals it might be cheaper than an O1 Knife, but hype in general comes up for a reason.
Carbon steel takes less effort than stainless steel to get to a particular hardness, so a stainless steel knife of the same cost probably has a lower hardness.
My point? The hyped up metals, in general, require less effort and as such will be cheaper than those harder to work with.
I didn't say that expensive knives had the ultimately perfect cutting geometry, did I? I'll come back to Helikon, because I've personal experience with these knives. They have TERRIBLE cutting geometry. I've also got a Karesuando wolf; the blade angle is a bit too wide for my liking and as such it's a bit of a pain to use for carving things. I'd still take the Karesuando knife, purely based on geometry, any day of the week over the Helikon.
>cost != quality because of this one company I'll mentionThis is anecdotal. Albeit, I kind of did the same thing in my last point but I did it because I have more experience with these two particular brands. I have seen hundreds of cheap blades over the years with terrible cutting geometry and I have seen plenty of higher end knives with much better cutting geometry.
Just because BRKT sell expensive, but shite, knives, doesn't mean that money doesn't in general buy you better quality stuff. Knife selling is a niche market; the tricks that might work with crisps and chocolate in store don't work when your market do weeks of research on products to get the best bang for their buck. BRKT sell low quality knives? They're going to lose business as long as they do so. They probably already have lost business over comments (Assuming they're on forums and stuff).
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