So a while back, Rockbox challenged me to do the Salty tomato piercing test with a Forschner. I didn't have one on hand so I tried it with a Henckels Pro S and it passed okay. It didn't make it through too many times before squishing the tomato a little. Anyway, I recently had a sharpening pow-wow asked to borrow a Forschner someone brought. Today, I spent 10 min going from 1k Gesshin to 5k Gesshin to 8k SS to 0.25 micron diamond on Dave's strop. I wasn't expecting anything 'cause I really didn't try very hard at this point but the edge felt "scary" so I tested it. To my amazement, it worked really, really well. Anybody else find that Forschner steel outperforms Henckels or other well regarded brands? I'm not talking about blade geometry or anything like that; just the steel.
BTW, I spent a few minutes on a Heiji semistainless, too. Damn, that thing likes to get sharp! Love that steel...
BTW, I spent a few minutes on a Heiji semistainless, too. Damn, that thing likes to get sharp! Love that steel...