Your heat treater makes all of the difference, Brad is the go to guy .......
Peter's does great work but they work off the data sheet, generally.
There are sole proprietor's out there that are extracting every decimal point they can out of heat treating.
Phill Hartsfield was pushing A2 long ago, to points at the time no one was getting. He wouldn't give out his techniques and a lot of knife makers didn't like that. But he put time, materials, and effort into it. He kept it his trade secret.
Today there is a bunch of guys doing the same and are getting really good numbers.
But You the user need to know how to use the knife. It isn't a pry bar, hammer, axe, etc. Those knife makers can make you a knife that will take abuse. They just prefer to make tools for guys that know how to use them. In doing so they have amazing geometry, heat treat, and are using steels that most other makers just won't touch.
