Walking to lunch…good thing they have plastic environmental friendly disposable knives at the restaurant in case I actually need to cut something 
I have tons of large and small blades that get exactly “zero” use. Because I never do anything. Because I’m lazy. But some are really cool — mostly Ontario, Gerber, Cold Steel…
My EDC knife (if I actually carried it) is a Cold Steel Vaquero.
I’d like to get a Glock knife and a Cold Steel Peacemaker III (boot knife); but the truth is, I have no use for them. I just like them.
That’s a really nice looking knife!
I had never had one of their knives before. I liked the look of it and took a chance. Not large sized but not small either. Fits in the hand nice. Nice edge on it. Not super thin but not super fat either. Opens smoothly and locks up nicely. I really like the blade vs handle contrast. I will give it a workout and see how it holds up. I’m not super hard on knives but I will do my best to give it hell.
Think it was $34 on eBay. I could have probably gotten it cheaper overseas or Amazon but, I didn’t want to wait on overseas and I am not using Amazon till they get deliveries figured out in my area.
I’ve got an Amazon gift card burning a hole in my pocket and was going to pull the trigger on one of these, but for some reason they don’t sell knives to people in New York State. :rage: :person_facepalming: 
Maybe I’ll get it from another source.
Here is the link to the ebay ad I got it from. Atlantic Knife Co is the seller. They have their own website too with lots of knives, I just so happen to run across it on ebay. They shipped fast.
What I carried today is about as far from budget as production knives get…
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700…
Jeez, guess that is Canadian dollars. My neighbor has a Lanny, different handle look. It’s like a black or really dark blue I think. Think I remember him giving about $400 US for it. It’s been a while back. He’s crazy as hell though, he paid $800 and some change for a William Henry of some sort. Nice looking blade with Mokume handle. He is out of control on pocket knives. He never carries them though. He carries $20 Kershaws and CRKTs and just collects the expensive ones. He’s shown me knives that I am pretty sure cost more than any car or truck I’ve owned. He told me if his house ever caught on fire while he wasn’t home to make sure the firefighters didn’t take off with his knife safe.
Nope that is USD. But, it is only semi production….the blades are hand ground. The handles and hardware are production. So the important part of the knife is custom…
I have a few that are high cost, and with a couple exceptions, I carry them. They don’t get heavy use, if I carry something expensive I usually carry a small fixed blade or a slip joint if something so that if something is really dirty or needs more abuse than I want to give to a $700 knife, I can use one of them.
I am not a fan of damask, as i see it there are not really any practical gains for doing that, so as a hard core Dane that kind of clash with our design philosophy.
I also spoke to a Danish knife maker ( no not one of the flashy ones ) and he laughed his ass off and said O hell no to damask.
BTW a few days during digging to make / fix sewers a nice sword from the 1300 or so was found.
The 93 CM ( 112 CM OA ) dual edge blade are still sharp they say, though i would like to feel that before believing it
Unfortunately we lost the knowledge of making real Damascus steel (Wootz steel). It was apparently a super steel, maybe even better than current steel. This may explain the legends about magical swords.
The current Damascus pattern is primarily for the look but still have interesting mechanical advantages.
$500 for a pocket knife?
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If using the right steels, Damascus has huge advantages.
It is true that damascus has no physical benefits, in fact it has some drawbacks, and is purely aesthetic. However, a company like Damasteel makes a very good steel for knife use being made of 2 modern steels that both have fairly good edge retention. One being RWL-34 which is more or less the same as CPM-154 and the second being an equivalent to 12C27.
It is actually a pattern welded steel, not technically damascus, which is a traditional steel making method that the Nordic people have been using for centuries.
Zero Tolerance Sinkevich ZT0456
Are you Paulie Teutul or something?
Sebertool M6 —- no longer made.
There’s a cheap Chinese ripoff copy for sale — one -sided wedge blade rather than two-sided concave edge, etc.