Hirlau,

First, I'm not going to apologize that you took offense. I said thank you to everyone twice, stated that my response was to clear up the type of things I know about knives so that people could make their answers more specific to my question, and also stated that my response had zero negative intentions behind it.

I obviously don't know everything about knives, but your analogy was "swing and a miss" in my opinion. Are you going to tell an astrologist that he's full of sh** because he knows a lot about Neptune but needs help to get there? If so, you must be a very intellectually blessed individual.

I posted the above response to this thread to restate the answer I was hoping to get, and while I really enjoy new information about knives (kitchen in particular), maybe another thread could be used for that and this one could stay to sources of good kitchen knives. Seeing as how that's why I started it. However, your above post was laced with negative intentions to "put me in my place." Very mentor-ish.