Quote Originally Posted by JOB15 View Post
I think that the further back you go the better the steel generally speaking and the really early stubbies have excellent grinds.. I have no problem with any grind or shape.
Do you think the steel was better in a metallurgical sense or just maybe it was softer so takes a different type of edge. I imagine steel is actually one of the areas which has advanced the most, especially back then. Just moving from blister steel to crucible was a huge improvement in quality and consistency. I could imagine alloying was very low so very small carbide volumes but we have good low carbide volume steels now.