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We both posted in the same thread(hardness vs. wear resistance), where Vasili accused Ankerson of putting up a show instead of knife testing, and also accused him of helping knife industry - "overstock of overpriced underperformed steels".I could find no example of him calling people's work or findings anything negative.
My and your posts are 3rd and 4th after his. I assume you read it, you just have a different perspective, fine.
In this very thread, right after your post #27, he attacked Spyderco, for posting Carpenter's description of CTS-XHP, and went on with his usual conspiracy theories. Again, may be for you it's alright, others think he's rather off with that.
I agree with you on all accounts here. Except, that doesn't mean number of people will not form the same opinion of someone or something. For most of the opponents or critics Vasili's answer is: shut up, because you have not done as much cutting as I have, even if they're pointing out something as obvious as different knives, edge angles, different initial performance.I dislike cliquey or group attitudes that predispose others to think someone or something is bad or good for that matter (it doesn't matter). This slowly, overtime, destroys ideas, credibility and free expression of ideas.![]()
For the makers who have done a lot more cutting with better setups(i.e. same blade geometry, different steels), he's response is that they have agenda to push underperforming steels...
In other words, his testing results are one thing, but the rest is how he treats opponents, and unlike you many people do have problem with that.
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