As far as the average Joe is concerned, any decent knife made of reasonably good steel will do the job. For most people the difference between high performance steels is basically academic. Not so when we're talking about the more discriminate user, however. Even a relatively minor difference in hardness or wear resistance can have a significant impact on performance when you use a blade regularly.
I'm actually thinking it might be just the opposite.
Take my wife for example. She'd continue to use that dull Kabar blade until it's sharpness resembled that of a butter knife (she does that with kitchen knives); whereas, I will notice that its gotten dull and take the Sharpmaker to it.
If I'm forced to use the Kabar AUS 8A knife, it WILL be sharp all the time, though I'll have to sharpen it more often.
If my wife is using an S30V Rittergrip, she'll have a sharper safer knife much longer.
Ken
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