Your suggestion linked above has a damascus cladding (I like the fact it has carbon core)
I kinda wanted to avoid the faux cladding, for all the reasons I have read about - thick blade, scratch and fade? And if ever I wanted the blade thinned it would look bad?
Other thing, I was hoping for more of a western style handle
This combination seems thin on the ground, as most are VG-10
Tanaka is iron clad. It's easy to thin when you need to, as opposed to stainless cladding which feels kind of gummy on the stones.
Any damascus knife you thin is going to scratch up the blade face. You need to refinish with a sandpaper progression and some flitz. You can also make it 'pop' with some light etching
If you want a low maintenance knife that looks good after normal sharpening, look at wide bevel knives and forget damascus
Tanaka is iron clad. It's easy to thin when you need to, as opposed to stainless cladding which feels kind of gummy on the stones.
Any damascus knife you thin is going to scratch up the blade face. You need to refinish with a sandpaper progression and some flitz. You can also make it 'pop' with some light etching
If you want a low maintenance knife that looks good after normal sharpening, look at wide bevel knives and forget damascus
Yes, I was thinking of a non-clad single metal Damascus
This ebay knife looks just what I was after (not sure about material as I don't know anything about that particular one), but the profile is a tad flat for my liking, not sure about the handle and of course, it is a Santoku
I've looked properly at the above. Looks a nice knife for sure, and decent value considering the price
I like the profile, the material and the handle looks better than a lot of the the big ferrules I see on some of the J-knives (my Tojiro Shirogami has a largeish plastic ferrule)
I put a link in the post which needs moderation (for some reason??)
Basically I said I would like a single metal, but as MoK's said, that costs. Although the link was to an eBay Sakai Takayuki Swedish Stainless Hammered Damascus Wa-Santoku Knife which is single metal and costs $105
Oh, no. MillionKnives just mentioned 'author' damascus knives from very reputable blade-smiths in America.
If you resign the idea of having a fashion damascus blade, and please do it, you can have for instance a Hiromoto (Benuser can tell more about this brand than me, but i guess the Honyaki series is single metal) for about $279, which is really cheap for honyaki blades. Here's a 240 mm. gyuto (please skip the Santoku).
My god - I can truly say that's the most beautiful knife I've come across. The damascus pattern is the best I've seen (better than all the Kramer's I've seen). Love the handle, the sloping bolster, the relief on the choil. Just wow
As much as I have the lust and would love to romp around with that for an afternoon, I wouldn't like to own the knife - for its profile.
Yes, the high tippers (well, my Robert Welch) have not being seeing much action of late.... it's the JCK carbonext I reach for pretty much for everything. I have being practicing sharpening all the knives on the stones and the JCK has taken on an extraordinarily sweet edge and combined with a strong feel through the blade, and yes, a much lower height tip, has become an absolute joy to use
I can still rock just fine, onion dicing has become show off, and all with less elbow /img/vbsmilies/smilies/smoking.gif
Cosmo does however do custom. No idea on pricing I suppose for one of those bad boys?
The Kai Shun 9.5" hammered damascus Tim Mlazer which I ordered 5 weeks ago is currently in shipping. I'll probably send it back
Thanks everyone for the advice so far - you guys rock - although the wallet looks like continuing to get a fair bit lighter
Oh as far as the profile, got you mixed up with another recent poster. He wanted the big belly but a lower than typical German tip, that sums up the Cosmo. Who the hell was that now?
Hard to say what he'd do a custom for, you'll just have to wait till he gets back from vacation. I don't think he's well known yet though, so that helps. These are all essentially one-off knives, so I don't think the price would change much for a different profile.
I try to guide bonesetter into the moral, almost religious benefits of single metal non damascus knives and all of you are spoling the (already wasted) guy. Damnation!
I try to guide bonesetter into the moral, almost religious benefits of single metal non damascus knives and all of you are spoling the (already wasted) guy. Damnation!
ordo - I don't know quite how, but I'm still lost in space
I'm feeling the draw for 'the one' (= the next one, until I've tried them all), or tried enough to synergise with Millions and Rick, and meanwhile soaking up the great BdLa x
These are some of the knives Cosmo has in stock. They are ~$1K (Canadian), 8" and I'm not too sure about the profiles
I think I'm going to give up on the idea of a Damascus, certainly mono steel anyway and follow Ordo's mantra. Why blow the budget on one 'possible' when I can just get more knives for the same money??
I do like the Tanaka Blue R2 (with iron Damascus clad) Million's linked above though, so may go for that
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