" am leaning toward the laminated stainless because I am in wet places often and do like the similar steel of my Fallkniven F1"

Fallkniven makes beautiful knives. Those laminated blades are superb for taking an excellent edge, but their knives are not cheap these days. It's well worth owning one .. if you want a good knife that will last a lifetime.

If you look on the Cold Steel Web site you'll see that they list certain blades as "San Mai". That is also a laminated steel blade. Again a lot of them are expensive. But there are a few items there which are a bargain - for a laminated blade.

cheers,
Pete #2