Everything you just said I completely agree with. My point was that all that carbide makes it rather pointless to sharpen to a high polish as the carbides are bigger than the edge and will tear out.
Now I'm not going for a fine vs large carbide steel here I like both for different reasons. It's just in my experience steel type, hardness, and heat treat doesn't particularly affect my sharpening. With an India stones yes. With Japanese water stones yes. Norton corborundum stones, no. It cuts them all. But I haven't used the very top steels out there like rex 121 so I really can't say from personal experience.
And apparently Mr wizard has shown me the folly of my ways. That is interesting. I love that website. I know I had read something to the opposite and it was a reIiable source and I can not find that article now. Rats!
Now I'm not going for a fine vs large carbide steel here I like both for different reasons. It's just in my experience steel type, hardness, and heat treat doesn't particularly affect my sharpening. With an India stones yes. With Japanese water stones yes. Norton corborundum stones, no. It cuts them all. But I haven't used the very top steels out there like rex 121 so I really can't say from personal experience.
And apparently Mr wizard has shown me the folly of my ways. That is interesting. I love that website. I know I had read something to the opposite and it was a reIiable source and I can not find that article now. Rats!