A while back a guy asked if I had a match. I told him "Not since Superman died."
About 15 months ago, I was sitting on one of the park benches downtown, minding my own business eating a sandwich and drinking a Mountain Dew, taking a break from riding my (adult) trike.
Some cute 20 something gal I've never seen or spoken to before or since comes up to me and says:
"You and I have absolutely nothing in common!!!"
I told her "You are mistaken. We have at least three things in common."
"Oh yeah!? What!?"
"First, we both speak English. Second, we're both alive. Third, we're both
buck naked under all our clothes."
She walked away shaking her head.
I have no idea why she said anything to me ... or even looked at me. That ugly old thing in my Avatar really is me.
The day will come when M390 will be considered an average steel lol. I’ve heard that 440C used to be a supersteel back then?
Is true. 440C is the "original super steel". "Superior" edge holding (and allegedly) corrosion resistance, and a higher Rockwell C rating, when compared to 440A and 1095 which were the then normal/standard knife steels (at least for "Made in USA"). So far as I know, O1, D2 the other tool steels, and 5160 were not used by any production knife company. Then as now, I pretty much ignored custom knives.
440C was also more difficult to sharpen than the other blades using the then standard Arkansas stones.
(Diamond, SIC, and other advanced sharpening stones hadn't been invented yet.)