Why Sushi Chefs Pay Up to 20K for These Knives

too bad because of the process to create stainless steel in the first place makes it inferior to high carbon steel...
it can make an good knife but it could never make a really good or superior sword...

would be interesting to see what could be done with carbide/cobalt/titanium and black diamond, would be insanely expensive to try it though... the cheapest would be working with titanium.

also, with high carbon steel you can also chrome the outside to make it last that much longer...