Thread: Show me your knives

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Gerber

Rate them as well. Presume yours is the 154CM blade? but it is not produced in the fixed knife. Pity because the folder gets wickedly sharp on our sharpener.

I always wanted some Damascus blades there pretty cool quite well made iv only used 1 to butcher a sheep so haven't really given them a decent test yet.
Handles are made of camel bone , rose wood ,bufflow horn , antler and something else...

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

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I always wanted some Damascus blades they are pretty cool quite well made iv only used 1 to butcher a sheep so haven't really given them a decent test yet.
Handles are made of camel bone , rose wood ,bufflow horn , antler and something else...

I used to import a lot of knives from India and 99% of the them are average at best, they may look nice but trying to get them to hold or take an edge is fruitless.looks to me like a few of them are exactly that, if you want a good Damascus blade you need to spend a few hundred min and often over a grand, it's a pointless steel nowadays, Damascus steel was in the old days the best steel for cutting flesh because of the microscopic bubbles in the steel that acted as a natural micro serration, this created unsurpassed flesh cutting in those days, today there are steels that are far better and cheaper, it's "pattern welded" steel and for my money it's just nice to look at, as a tool for hard work, not really.
the true Damascus art form is lost, they used to make the ingots in the ground and used plant matter of some sort which is believed to have helped the micro bubbles ( so to speak ) you can find true Damascus steel in different places like huge pillars in India that were made from it...... But impossible to Aquire and pretty soft as well, there is a shit load of info on This steel if you look for it, and as a person who used to forge it was an obsession for a while
Nice collection Thanks for sharing.