knotslip, I don't think the two are really "inversely proportional" take INFI for example... unless of course you just mean within one knife... in that case, yes I believe that's generally how it works... but I believe Mike Stewart once told me that most steels kind of have a "sweet spot" where the toughness to strength ratio are highest.
paraphrasing def. but I believe what he was basically telling me was along those lines.
That also brings up the fact that SR's are differentially hardened. Then it gets pretty confusing.
By inversely proportional, I mean that given any particular knife or steel - as you make it stronger - it will become less tough. Or if you make a steel tougher you are making it less strong (You cannot increase one without decreasing the other). It is impossible to have both at maximum - that would be the perfect steel. Infi is great and it is strong and tough but to go along with what I'm saying - if they tried to make it tougher - it would invariably lose strength. And, if they tried to make it stronger it would lose toughness...make sense?
