justin gingrich has had some incredible results with S7 and while he has made custom knives with this steel it is the performance of his ENTRY TOOL that impressed me so much.

he took one to iraq and did everything from chop cars in half,chop concrete blocks up and his day-to-day "door kicking in" and "window raking" duties as a contracted bad [censored] over there and he had pics to document it all

he had that very same entry tool from the pics at his table at BLADE and i was very impressed with how the edge looked after all that ruckus.it made me very glad to own one of his ET's.

i am also very glad to own a crash axe from the swamp in S7.the thing with air bubbles in the bad batch of S7 was also a fluke and while i experienced it twice it has had no negative effect on my impression of this steel with the busse HT.

i have had a few experiences where the edge on my S7 blades has rolled when i didnt think it was warranted and know my high carbon pices in 5160 or 52100 wouldnt have done that but they also cant be bent all the way down on themselves like a contortionist,practically bent in half like is capable with these srappers in S7.

everything has a trade off.i know for a fact without trying to sound like an "internet expert" that these scrayard S7 blade will take more high impact type of abuse than any other cutlery capable steel.jack hammer bit steel is jack hammer bit steel ya know!!

were all familiar with A2 in use for knives and we know that their is a such thing as A8,wheather busse uses it or not,but does that mean their is such steels A3,A4,A5,A6, and A7 steels also??

how high up the numeric scale do these A-SERIES steels go.is there an A9 or A10 as well.