Sparky.
I could take away 60 yrs and still not be 16.
You ain’t got a problem.
Regarding Damascus. Look at some of the Japanese Chef, Santoku, etc knives.
waaay over 2 grand for daily working knives, mainly Damascus.
They cut you just looking at them. 99% Carbon, Centre layer brittle as,
I’ve yet to understand HOW you can get a super sharp blade.
Around 1/8th in thick while being 101 layers??.
I have 3 and 37 layer. Yes, super sharp and non brittle. But 101.
Ugh … You’re mixing steel lamination with damascus steel pattern. “Damascus steel” is not even sort of a steel and it has nothing to do with steel lamination (like “san mai” example, as someone above mentioned). It’s just pattern technique and quality of “damascus steel” depend from what steel you use. Most damascus steel knives nowaday originate from Pakistan and they are mostly low quality blades. There’s not one single advantage of damascus steel pattern apart from looking nice.
To be honest I prefer cheaper G-10/VG-10 above CPM-S35V/Ti version. Both are great, but G-10 feel just better in hand …
Well I broke down and ordered one. Just got it today. I like the size (a good deal slimmer than some of my other knives in the same blade length) and I love the blade shape. It’s sharp out of the box so that’s a plus. On the light side too!
The comments on youtube were accurate. The thumbstuds are a bit sharp (but easily fixable) and the clip wiggles a little bit (but not enough to bug me). The scales are definitely not G10, but they’re fine. I like the dished profile along the length. I’ve got a mind to shape myself some out of something else. Black G10? Cocobolo? Ipe? Buffalo Horn? Ziricote?
Mine’s a bit tight at the pivot so I’ll have to search for my Torx drivers, take off the scale and give it an adjustment. No sweat. I think it’ll serve me well.
I like it so far. Just FYI this isn’t a real Boker Kwaiken. It’s a clone. Got it from kevinjohnknives.
I don’t abuse my pocket knives too much. For heavy work and abuse I use fixed blades. My pocket knives will spend most of their lives opening packages and the like. It is smooth opening and closing, came fairly sharp out of the box. Haven’t had it long enough to find any weakness’s in it yet.
No, I’m not. Damascus is steel lamination. San Mai is a type of Damascus pattern. “Pakmascus” is garbage pot metal. This is only used on cheap garbage knives, mainly from China or “custom” knives from the middle east.
There is a definite distinction between Damascus and San Mai. One is mixing steels to form patterns or swirls, used to be used to mixed impure with more pure steel to even out the performance.
And the other is layering of steel to create a sandwich effect with a harder steel in the middle softer/tougher steel on the outside.
Most of what we call Damascus steel however, isn’t really. It’s pattern wielded steel.
And there are certainly a lot of cheap pot metal quality damascus blades being made but there are quite a lot of high end manufacturers also. Damasteel, Chad Nichols and many many Japanese companies.
Yeah it’s not inexpensive, especially in the US for $269.
The best price I found was from lamnia.com. It was $198 when I pre-ordered last week (looks like $203 today). They also do an aluminum version with an N690 blade for $128 but the full carbon (no metal liner) version really is what makes this guy special IMHO.