They are all excellent steels. If you want to give yourself a headache, visit Bladeforums.com and Knifeforums.com and review the untold number of threads addressing this issue. Ultimately, you will be buying a new knife weekly or come to realize that this is very much a personal preference thing. It seems that heat treatment may well be more important than the steel itself as some of the less well regarded steels can be made to even equal the performance of the wonder steels with proper heat treat. _________________________________________________ Proverbs 21:19