"you are wasting your time asking these questions on this forum."

If nothing else, I would have to agree with you on this. You did not answer the question. I don't think you even understand the question, and if you do, you have a funny way of answering it.

Someone said you were the expert on blade steel. I think that someone went off and neglected to tell you the truth.

Incidentally, I asked the original question because I wanted to know. I did not ask the question to listen to some of your know-nothing crap. I asked here because I thought someone with metallurgical experience might know.

Believe it or not, there are people in this world, and on this forum, who know things that you don't, and if these people do not know, they do not try to cover up their lack of knowledge by ridicule.

If you don't know the answer, why don't you admit it and say so, instead of trying to make yourself look smart and important by putting someone else down?