I know I had a GSS knife that was always my favorite. It stayed sharp longer and was all around better untill one day I droped it on the floor and it cracked breaking off from the handle. I had just made some stab wood and decided I would turn it into a smaller knife that I could still use (ya it really was that much better then the other knifes that I did all this to keep it). Now on one side you must think why did it break if it is so great right? Well idk why but in order to make a knife you must drill 2 holes through it which for 1/8 inch you should be able to do with the correct drill bit. Let me tell you something after 30 min with a SS bit I went to home Depot to get one that maybe would actually work. No luck still ordered one on Amazon and can't believe maybe spent 45 min straight drill blasting to that GSS knife and yet it was not even half way through. I had to use my oxy acetylyne torch to Finnish the 1 hole and make the second or I would not still have what is left of that knife. So is GSS better I think so. I have tried 304 316 and many other ones in the US nothing ever came close to toughness trying to drill a 1/8th inch hole into that German made knife.