Yes, Momaw, that's me on youtube. I have many many knives, but when I said "an INFI only user" I actually intended to say I don't have any SR-77 or SR-101 yet (these 3 steels are targeted by this topic).

Please, don't think I always push the limits of my knives like that, but anytime I buy a new knife which I intend to count on during my expeditions, I first want to know its limits in all areas so that I know exactly what I should expect from my equipment when I go far away from inhabited areas alone. In this way I also get familiar with the tool, start understanding it and so on. Most of the time I go there alone. And I never go there with new or unused (by myself) equipment items. I also don't consider enough to test a knife and get with me a new one of the same model! I simply want to test exactly the individual knife that I will take with me to be sure I know exactly how it behaves.

When you don't know the limits of your equipment, you can't achieve the maximum possible from it. Sometimes you take exagerate care which leads to loosing a lot of time in the field, othertimes you may abuse the equipment too hard which may lead to remaining without it when you need it mostly.

Of course, I do not intend to make a tasteful soup of micarta and drink it, but I have to know the limits of the steel in order to know which situations represent danger for the knife and which not.

Regarding sub-zero temperatures, I found at this link: http://www.dfoggknives.com/heat_treating2.htm some things about someone who needed a knife to chop frozen meat at 80F below and the only knife which rezisted was a custom L-6 steel knife. In my case, the hot temperatures can be encountered at some point, but the cold have never reached less than 25 degrees Celsius below zero in my country. So, I'm not too concerned about that. Just curious. But I was just wondering... how would INFI behave below zero Celsius and at which point does it became chipable/breakable. Logically, the nitrogen should make INFI blades to freeze faster than other steels.

I'll be out testing my Skinny ASH-1 this weekend. Thank you all for replys. I'm still waiting for Dan or Jerry to reply at some time to this topic.

Best Regards!