Lots of good information here. I've made many knives out of each and given proper heat treatment don't believe you will be dissatisfied with either. D2 is not a stainless steel but when polished as opposed to just a ground finish almost acts like stainless. I would caution you that it does not stain, it pits. As someone else pointed out, deep enough to require re-grinding at times. CPMS30V is one of my favorites along with CPM3V. Properly heat treated it is much more wear resistant and stain resistant than D2. It also is more impact resistant as I have witnessed through some of my own tests and also reported by Crucible if I'm not mistaken. I haven't ever needed that feature but if you like hitting your knives with hammers it is good to know. Two great steels. In a corrosive environment go
with the S30V, other wise you won't go wrong with either.
