What are you waiting for??? Get the knives, test away, report back with ACCURATE results! It sounds like you want someone else to do this for you, to your standards. Stand up, do it yourself, and then know for yourself what is what. Reading your babble is giving me a headache. Knife collecting since you were 5 yrs old? FIVE years old? WOW. Your parents really liked living on the EDGE letting their 5 year old child handle sharp objects. ...And after all that time, only 24 kinves (2 dozen) in your collection? Yet all this 'expertise', amazing. Just about the only really intelligent words I've read from you tonight are "Bill Siegle". ...And while we're on this, I'll bet $20 that, even though I don't know the man, at least ONE of his Busse's is a user. TWENTY BUCKS. Prove me wrong, collect $20. Now, please offer some evidence, or stop with the borderline slander (actually, LIBEL, since you are typing instead of speaking.). Please let me know when you have some real test results to back you up.
Thanks,
Jaxx