The point being which knife maker goes through a more traditional and laborious process to produce a knife
same could be said about custom rifles, shops ike Echols,Ralf Martini , Holland & Holland**, etc use Hoenig stock duplicators,
while other smiths will brag about how they inlet and shape the whole stock by hand,
but that does not mean a superior end product..... one smith who 'proudly does it all by hand',
...will then use CNC to make a variety of custom metal components...LOL.
any custom product industry is loaded with self promoting hype or BS that customers will fall for.
and a person could be passing up some great knives if they have a bias view against modern PM steels.
Purdey will make you a fine piece from PM Damasteel.
https://www.pm-review.com/100000-shotgun-manufactured-from-powder-metallurgy-formed-damascus-steel/(** I think some folk would be horrified to learn the amount of work done on prestigious 'old school craftsmanship'
H&H and Purdey that is actually done by modern machines)
