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06-28-2016, 06:18 PM #1
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Thanked: 481It's a combination of carbon content and heat treatment. Typically stainless steels sacrifice carbon content for chromium to add rust resistance, so typically speaking they will not be as hard as a high carbon steel. Treating them to match that hardness may make the steel brittle. There's always a trade off.
Not that it makes a stainless blade bad per se, just different.