Fighting the super steel tide?

ZDP is a steel that stays sharper longer in my opinion. With this kind of logic in your question, it's better just to remain stagnant and just keep the old stuff because it's old stuff, there's no need for improvement right? WRONG.

I find the ZDP no harder to sharpen than my other knives of S30V and VG 10. It does stay sharp longer though. One caveat, you musn't let it get dull, then it's may be a chore. I just strop as I use. For instance, if I'm cutting cardboard, I strop on the cardboard itself. If not available, I do so at the end of the day on my stone. No big deal.

Once you experience a better steel, you (I) have a hard time accepting anything else. I just don't understand why people are willing to settle for less when there's better out there.

I have knives of other steel too, like my Kershaw leek in AUS8, it dulls as I'm using it. Maybe I'm a heavy user. I just can't go back now when the new stuff works better. Just like any progressive development in technology. The new TV's, cars, airplanes, missle's of today are better than yesterday's. It's no different with steel technology.

cliff
 
I would like to stick to a steel like 440C that I could sharpen in a pinch on a rock if I was stranded. I bet that's a $@&%! with D2. :)
 
I have used lots of natural stones to sharpen various steels including D2, it isn't an issue.

-Cliff
 
I think what most people are failing to understand is that while the newer steels maybe harder, they still aren't as hard as the materials used to sharpen them.

People who don't know how to sharpen a knife properly probably wouldn't appreciate the newer steels. For those of use who reprofile our blades and put razor edges on them we enjoy finding a steel that will hold that razor edge a little longer.
 
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