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Gosh 7mmsaum, even the deer are wearing them now. :)

Good. 12c27 comes up really sharp and was the first of the decent modern stainless steels. Quite a few NZ knife makers use it. That knife looks good.

Just saying that the graph supports my experience on animals. All knife steels I've used will chip, but D2 is the queen bitch.

I was asleep at the time. :)
But it feels like it was done with the back side of a rusty and blunt cow cockies' Svord.

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D2 is a brittle, chippy sort of steel.

Red is edge holding, blue is toughness:

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