looking for advice

[DrRollinstein]

I Had an 8C13MV knife And It Rusted A Lot more Than Any AUS steel has For me!! But Thank you for The Advice I Appreciate you!!!

Aus-8 is genuinely barely worth the steel its made of these days. The reason you're finding so little of it is because its not going to be much cheaper than steels that outperform it many times over. The only reason 420HC is even still in use is likely due to Bucks intense love of it.