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To simplify, my learning is: A great surface preparation is much more important than the adhesive being used. I'd say this is easy to challenge and I'd expect that statement to be challenged.
Steve, I think your list of preferred qualities is dead on. I'd suggest some numbers on the temparature range would be -60 (been to minus 45 in North Dakota) to a high of 180 which *should* make it dishwasher proof. If it can't last through a dishwashing, it fails. I understand most custom knives would never be put in a dishwasher, but some are going to be like it or not.
I'd also add mild solvent resistance to chemicals like gasoline or kerosine. I'm not sure what other chemicals a knife might be exposed to. Maybe a farmer or military guy can pipe in here. Maybe MRE's would count as a caustic agent?
I'll do the boiling test, maybe tonight if I can get to it. I think that would be a good one and would maybe fail a couple more.
What ever is left after that is getting a kerosine soaking.
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