Go to steel! Simple or super?

Yeah, but you live in Canada where they didn't have paved roads until 2004. :p When I was in Tallahassee from 1991-1994, I was on one of the last purely analog exchanges in town, because it was the newest analog system and the first one in town that they upgraded to have all of the features, like call waiting, 3 way calling, etc. All of the new stuff going in out in the suburbs was primitive digital by then.
Willie71 said:
We had party lines in sturgeon county until the late 1980’s, early 1990’s.
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jdm61 said:
Dang, dude. And I bet that you thought that Wakulla County was primitive! My grandmother was the last person that I knew that had a party line and that was like 1968 and she lived out in the country in Kentucky. :p The only "complex" steel that I have used was a bit of 3V.
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Wakulla County was primitive, but not as primitive as this part of the Ozarks. Moved here in 1990 and was like stepping back in time 40 years. o_O
 
My grandma had a party line in Ferry county WA in the mid 80s. If I remember right my dad must have paid extra for a business line since we lived next door. I remember her complaining about the lady down the road listening to her calls. Lol. Funny memories. It was like we were super rural either, we were only 4 miles off the highway and the county would snow plough our road.
 
Re: the OP. I use a lot of 15n20, W2, and more recently 8670. If people want to pay for it, I use a lot of cru-wear and z-wear. Only the customer can decide if the price premium is worth it.
 
I love 1.2519, and i do stock removal, because it is simple to work with unless you start heating it too hot or cycling it too much.
It takes and holds a super fine edge at a super hardness...anything below 63 hrc is a big waste of its features.
I like forging o2 and w2, but i also use 1084 and 1070, from great slicers to though choppers.
It all depends on our knifemaking skills and equipment, so that we don't waste the steel potential, and on the final application we have in mind for the knife, so we can choose a steel that's top notch for it, one that we know how and can heat treat it as it deserves.
Simple is relative, and should mean that you are able to get the most out of it in your shop.
A simple error is to work with, name one, hypereutectoid steel just because is super easy to get it harder than 58 hrc without a tought about its complexity, whereas it should run through a very strict heat treat procedure to come out as a great blade, as a custom knife should have.
 
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