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Jun 30, 2015

the steel in the blade is just about the most important part of a knife. I much prefer old-school styled straight blades like this to require a bit of oiling and upkeep, which can easily be done and use a high carbon steel. it's the modern alloys that have high edge retention and high resistance to rust that are expensive (everything higher than AUS10 imo, which is roughly minimum $100 price of entry).
There are $10 blades on amazon, hand carved wood handles that use better carbon steel and simply require a bit of upkeep to keep the blade from rusting (although the patina from long term ownership adds a bit of character as well).
All of that said, the handle and shape and finish of the blade are very beautiful, and for less knife-nerdy people this is an OK purchase if you want a straight blade. Before reading about the steel used, my one complaint is that it doesn't have fingertip protection, but it's clearly made to be a drawing blade not a pushing blade, so if you're not an idiot like me (i have scars) you should be fine :)
Please let's do more straight blade knife drops the magic one hasn't happened for me yet but this is close!

Jun 30, 2015