I’m not gonna lie, with the pattern coming out super wonky and taking away from the patterns that the Damascus style folding would have already given the blade, I think it looks like shit you’d see at a cheap fair booth.
I was just about to say that I’ve seen this done better. I once thought about trying to make Damascus patterns and then I saw Kyle Royer’s channel and I thought “what’s the point” he brings it up just to the point of looking ridiculous but still classy. This one here is a bit wonky.
Agreed. Some of Royer’s patterns I’m not a huge fan of, some of them are absolutely stunning, but I’ve never seen one and thought it looked over the top silly or like mall ninja shit.
The one in this video just kind of rubs me the wrong way and I can’t really say why. I guess like others have said, they worked really hard to make it somehow look cheap
I think it’s the canister Damascus aspect… all the stupid balls, weird shapes, and/or powdered metals.. seems cheap. It looks like this took a great amount of craftsmanship but starting off with that… seems cheap.
Right. I respect the skill and work that goes into it, but that doesn’t count for much if the result doesn’t look good. I mean it’s probably a decent blade at least, provided they used the right steel for it
Devin Thomas was one of the first to really push the mosaic pattern steels and I still think he got it right. It's never going to be a perfect pattern so the imperfections fit into the patterns. I specifically like the rain drop pattern he did but all of the round mosaics look good imo.
Yes! We all agree that China, and the great Master Whinnie the Pooh (neé Xi Jin-Pooh) creates only the finest steels and finest knives! You can see his number one top quality if you visit many of the large abandoned ghost cities across his miraculous country where everything is going perfectly and there is definitely not a huge economic bubble propped up by real estate speculation and auto sales that get booked 3x for every one-unit export to a foreign market - all on the verge of popping and collapsing the global economy!!! 🤩🤩🤩.
But these Chinese companies are using premium parts and superb machining to create top of the line products.
Yup. Anyone that says Chinese knives are crap has never held a Reate. I own two CRK Sebenza 31s and I love them, but the level of machining on my Reates is just on another level by comparison. All high-end chinese OEMs such as Reate, Rike, WE, Bestech, etc. also use Crucible (now Erasteel), Carpenter and Bohler powder metallurgy steels that are sourced from the US and Europe as well, and even budget knife makers from China (e.g. Civivi, Kizer, CJRB, etc.) often use 14C28N, VG10, Nitro-V, N690 and 154CM, all fine budget steels.
If a crap knife has come out of China, it's because whoever paid them to make it specifically wanted a cheap crap knife, it has nothing to do with the capabilities of Chinese knife makers.
Because propaganda. China is kicking the shit out of the US because despite the fact that they might push some stuff through for development at the expense of safety, they are singularly focused on one thing, advancing technology to produce a better life. Their big cities generate an ass load of electricity with pressure plates in the roads that will continuously provide because people aren’t going to stop driving any time soon.
Meanwhile American media only shows the poorest of the poor in China as if there aren’t poor people getting the shit kicked out of them by kkkops every day in America, instead of helping them.
Oh and they do it with half the GDP of America, and 4x the population
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u/Kernal_Sanders 4d ago edited 4d ago
I’m not gonna lie, with the pattern coming out super wonky and taking away from the patterns that the Damascus style folding would have already given the blade, I think it looks like shit you’d see at a cheap fair booth.