Glen A Cleeton wrote: |
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Good point, but I did already more or less make an exception for the military. Dress swords are similar, I guess: not much time for maintenance. Except maybe when privately owned, but still...
Back when I was beginning to get interested in knives (way before I "graduated" to swords ;)), I was very interested in finding "the best steel". But after a while I learned that you have to sharpen and clean anyway. To be honest, I carried my cheap 420 or carbon steel folders more often than my expensive ATS34 folder, just because "I didn't want to mess it up". And I found out that carbon steel develops a character over time that stainless steel just lacks.
All of this doesn't translate well to swords, especially historically inspired swords, because they generally don't nearly see as much use.
Except for training swords of course. In this sense, I find maraging steel much more interesting than stainless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraging_steel