What is the best place to learn about steel quality?

[Elmgrovegnome]

Is there a book or video on different types of steel for knives? or should I just read a different part of the forum?

 

[Jason B.]

Look above in Steel FAQ

 

[yablanowitz]

Buy a couple hundred knives with every kind of steel you can find and try them out for yourself. It worked for me.

 

[OliverH]

Buy a couple hundred knives with every kind of steel you can find and try them out for yourself. It worked for me.

Is that what you'd call "The School of Hard Nicks?"

 

[yablanowitz]

Is that what you'd call "The School of Hard Nicks?"

BA-DA-BUM. Yeah, what can I say? I'm one of those geezers that grew up before the Internet, but I only had to walk ten blocks uphill in the snow to get to school, and it wasn't even uphill both ways.

 

[knarfeng]

Look above in Steel FAQ

+1
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=368828

A good starting place. Be advised that people spend their lives trying to figure out what works and what doesn't and why. Don't expect to find out all there is to know in any one place.