General Summary Of Carbides and Their Effects?

[hayes31]

Can someone give me a quick rundown of how carbides affect the performance of steel in terms of toughness, edge retention, sharpening, and other general areas?

 

[nopyo]

If you haven't seen this site already:

http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelelements.shtml

Plenty of other useful info there.