[was sent some time ago, you may not even remember the thread  ]

Great discussion going on here about tool steel...

Steve Knight writes :

> Lamenting steel and iron really makes life easier in sharpening. It's
>far easier to sharpen a RC 65 Japanese plane iron then a solid 0-1 iron
>of the same thickness. 

Not if the O-1 iron is hollow ground (or should I say sorrow ground :-)  
Then you're only sharpening a tiny little band of steel (or two), much 
like with a laminated iron.

Paul   (strong proponent of hand grinders followed by waterstones)

Paul Pedersen     
Montreal (Quebec)