sorry,
but there's still no answer to the original question, which is essential to many of us prospective buyers... we've seen a vote on preferences, but little reasoned consideration of the pro and cons... for me, perhaps naively, the much higher Rockwell grade is decidedly more attractive, so while I admit that S30V may be the better steel, I wonder why the old BG-42 model shouldn't be superior if one has that feature at heart... collecting-wise, I wouldn't be interested in an outdated model, but what delights me in a blade is the hardness/sharpness more than the toughness (if you need toughness, you need a fb, in my view) , so in spite of being outdated, and ditched by Chris, the BG42 sounds better to me...
or is that a misconception? any reasoned analyses to that out there?
tristram