Thomas, since I have a minute while I'm finishing my coffee, could you please point me to where Jim is "softening his standpoint after some rational discussion?"
In the other thread, Jim said his Mule did ok, but that his other S35VN sample went dull so fast that he couldn't even test it. The mule did ok (geometry) and the other performed so poorly it couldn't even be tested?
That's 3 knives so far that have been piss poor, surely that means something. It throws the "isolated incident" thing out of the window **in my opinion**.