M390 - S110V

M390 would be mine favourite best balanced blade steel.
Not best at anything but very darn good at everything.
While m390 is tough for its level of edge retention is it comparatively quite a fragile steel at any hardness you would want to run it at. Not sure why it gets the reputation of being a hard user tough steel. Its definitely not super balanced and trades toughness for stainlessness and edge retention.
 
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