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Sure this is why marketing department is so important - they can sell anything!
Funny, but I heard similar ideas about that regular people should not be involved in decision making or rather excluded because they do not know everything and can not understand complexity etc... It was on on Marks-Lenin Phylosophy, PolitEconomy and Scientific Communism - mandatory classes for University education in USSR. Seems like Russians did not agreed finally and put those experts aside, now Russia is booming and already surpass USSR power, after total collapse, I should mention.
Of course commies were not good sales reps. Did not learn well public relation and marketing in their Communist Academy. They did bad job selling this ideas...
Again I think everybody would be able to see difference between those to numbers from CATRA edge retention test:
CPM S30V - 541
CPM S60V - 1030
I do not think that it will be too many people who will agree that CPM S30V will be better deal then CPM S60V especially for same price (I am not talking about $2 per lib Crucible ask for that steel).
Thanks, Vassili.
seriously? we're not talking about politics or ways of life, we're talking about knife steel. the simple fact is that most people see a grade of steel as equal across the board. very few people know about or care about all the factors involved in the performance of a steel. they see a test and it says (for example) CTS-XHP cuts 40% more manila rope than ZDP-189. they end up forming an opinion that CTS-XHP is 40% better than ZDP-189. what they won't take into account is all the factors that added up to that test result. this leads to people being misinformed, which is counter productive. it's easier and more practical for people to associate one steel they have with one they want if both cut in a "similar" range. everyone's own personal knife use will differ and so will their cutting performance.
CATRA is not the final say on which steel is better, it's just one specific test. just because s60v did better than s30v on a single CATRA test, doesn't mean all people will have that experience. different companies heat treat to different levels and set the blade geometry/edge angles up differently. so very few people will be actually cutting silica impregnated cards with their knives, all with the same geometry and edge angle and heat treated to a specific level. this is why raw data is counter productive.
i would love to have all the raw data because i can actually see it for what it's worth (just pieces of a puzzle), but posting it openly is irresponsible.
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