A Few Bits of Magic Steel

I haven't encountered many pieces of steel that live up to their hype. Most marketing claptrap isn't worth the 1s and 0s beamed into your eyeballs.

For the most part, there's good steel and crap steel. There are a few ways to make good steel (careful alloying and skilled heat treating) and a slop bucket of ways to make crap steel.

Can you detect the differences among varieties of A2 that are put out by different toolmakers? If it's well-made A2, most non-toolmakers can't. The differences are subtle …