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The way it's worded i don't read it as claiming AUS-8 is a premium steel. If it said "AUS-8 premium steel" then yes, but since premium is first, it just means they're using really good AUS-8 rather than bad or mediocre AUS-8.
 
jlauffer said:
The way it's worded i don't read it as claiming AUS-8 is a premium steel. If it said "AUS-8 premium steel" then yes, but since premium is first, it just means they're using really good AUS-8 rather than bad or mediocre AUS-8.
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I understand your reading. Similarly, if I said that my knife was made out of "premium cardboard cutting slab," I would not be claiming, according to you, that cardboard was a premium cutting material but rather, that I had chosen upper-tier cardboard for my cutting material -- cardboard which cut better than most of the cardboard out there.
 
It's probably premium compared to what you get at retail stores.
 
Isn't that better than saying "surgical stainless" like the Forged in fire production chef knife??

I have a few folders in AUS-8 and it is not bad.
 
Most good reasonably priced kitchen cutlery steel is the equivalent to 440A or Sandavick 12C27. AUS8 has a little more carbon and it has Vanadium which is not in 440A/12c27 and that makes it "premium" in comparison.
 
Well treated Aus8 is a good kitchen knife steel. Mostly marketed in Japan as MOLYVAN - Molybdenum Vanadium, such knives usually constitute the lowest priced "economy" series in a Maker's product line. (There is a Molyvan series getting a lot of attention in Japan right now, a series called NAGOMI made by the Seki manufacturer Mitsuboshi. I find it interesting that this knife is getting attention now when Aus8 has been bypassed by VG1,. VG10 as the "basic" kitchen knife blade.)
In any case it's remarkable that this Misen raised $1 million on Kickstarter to market an Aus8 kitchen knife when there are plenty of long established knife manufacturers/brands that offer the same thing at the same or similar price level.
 
Sharperthansticks said:
It's $65, not $6.50, but that's not the point. Even if it's $2, it's still lying to be saying that AUS-8 is a premium steel.
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It's not lying, at absolute worst it's exaggerating. There's no line that defines premium steel, and AUS-8 is a significant improvement over the steels found in most kitchen cutlery. Honestly, $65 for an AUS-8 chef's knife isn't even that awful a price. I think Tojiro's DP line is a better value and I trust their build quality already, so I see no reason to buy it, but as long as it's well made, this seems like a solid, reasonable choice for just about any home chef.
 
Sharperthansticks said:
It's $65, not $6.50, but that's not the point. Even if it's $2, it's still lying to be saying that AUS-8 is a premium steel.
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Says who? The same people who decide whether or not a steel is "super"?

"Premium" means "relating to or denoting a commodity or product of superior quality and therefore a higher price"....and since AUS-8 is superior to many steels (especially ones in many kitchen knives), and since AUS-8 costs more than lesser steels....."premium" describes it exactly.
 
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