Well, shoot, Simon. After I posted, I went back up and re-read your initial post where you said you used knives alot and were picky. So I feel a little silly about over-explaining the attributes of those knives. Sorry about that.

Still bugging me though.... why D2? If it's because there's a rave in the knife world about D2 (on affordable knives anyway), then why not S30V? As I said, IF it were me....the alloy makeup comes almost last.