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Graham88
Completely surprised by the lack of blade diversity here on Drop...
I’ve been a collector of Blades since before my teens, and a retailer coming up on 15… or maybe 20 years. Drop has really been kind of an interesting experience for me, because I do occasionally get to see some unusual tech and sometimes EDC items that otherwise I might not have been aware of. And maybe it’s because I have a deep love of cutlery and bladed weapons, but I find myself trolling through the site looking at it what’s available; and it’s just it’s pretty much the same. And the bladed community here is just always confused me.. every single knife is about the same, they’re almost all drop points and although the handle materials change and brands change.. it’s really just the same knife over and over and over again... occasionally you’ll see a tanto or a slight variant; but rarely… and almost never a serrated blade. And I’m just deeply amazed at this diversion of serrated blades. And I’m just surprised there isn’t more of a request for diversity here.... and I...
Mar 12, 2020
JellyDPhoto
Can we get Sony E-Mount or other mirrorless camera options please..
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RayF
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Objectively though it tends to be a sign of a more ‘real’ kitchen to have knives each of which was selected to be the best for the person’s cutting style and desires.
In my case I currently have and use:
a sekizo vg-10 nakiri clad in layered steel with a nearly full flat so I can cut to the board and use for 90% of my tasks. a wusthof 8” chef that I beat up for random tasks. a global deboning knife because for deboning I like their handle the most. an aristsugu 10” french profile gyuto in blue #2 which I use for meat slicing. A shun Ken onion sg2 paring knife
they’re all chosen because i like them for their particular function. If I had all one maker or line of knives one or more would be inferior.
My favored set of blades these days includes a couple Hattori French knives, a Zhen boner, Dalstrong slicer, while I use whatever folding knife I'm playing with at the time as a paring knife, currently a Maxace Wind. I still do some showing off in kitchens every now and then and I've always wanted a set of knives that work well while having similar design elements.
Moreover, there are some things I don't like on a knife. I hate round/cylindrical handles, feeling very strongly that a good blade should provide an unmistakeable tactile clue as to its fine orientation, which rules out a lot of Japanese style blades making the rounds these days. And I hate bolsters that the bottom edge of the knife runs into as any knife that is used seriously will need sharpening, and a knife that is sharpened enough will develop a gap where the blade meets the bolsters, making mincing garlic or whatever an issue, so that rules out a lot of German blades.
The Apogee, on the other hand, looks like the grip geometry satisfies my tactile clues to blade orientation preference, and doesn't have a big honking bolster on it which frankly hasn't ever made any sense to me. I'm not seeking merely a scaled down version for a boning, paring, or slicing knife, but something with kindred design elements would look good if ever cooking with eyes on you. If you've been in the food biz you know presentation and eye appeal is a big chunk of the battle, and I feel those esthetic standards apply to equipment too. If Massdrop were to develop a set over time I expect it would sell; if the first piece passed muster I'd certainly buy the ensuing ones.
And hey, if this notion of a set actually gets any attention, throw in a matching big honkin' sharpening steel as well as a stout carving fork. Or heck, shoot the moon and toss in some thematically similar garnishing tools like a corer, peeler, zester, etc. and turn this into a long term project.
But I eventually decided that i don’t like santokus as much as nakiris. in my particular use case I also found I didn’t like the global handle on a large knife.