Thanks for all the informations. Really appreciate it. Have a great day!!

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Cut something of course! ha

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Great stories Barry, you and your girlfriend rock

I really don’t know anything about knives, except what I already read. Why am I saying this? Just recently, my girlfriend ordered for me a Damascus hunting knife from the Stauer catalog……go figure! My birthday will soon be here, and she thought it would be a great present. But a hunting knife? When I say I don’t know anything about knives, I know a little.

I always wanted a folding knife when I was a kid, a penknife. However, I never got one for the simple reason I had no use for it. Then one day when I was at a festival with my girlfriend, I found a Swiss Army Knife. I saw it on the ground, someone must of dropped it. Well it’s mine now! I just put it in my pocket, and looked at it when I got home.“So you found a Swiss Army knife”, my girlfriend said? Yep, and it’s mine now. But what an I going to do with it? I know, open all the boxes you order…but that’s about it.

The big blade on the knife (if you call it big) had a drop point, and the small blade had what you call a sprey point. I think that’s what it’s called. The knife also had a bottle opener and a can opener. Oh, and it also had a toothpick and twizers. I had it for two years, then I lost it…..Darn.

My nephew saw the knife, and asked me if he could have one. Well not really. Not really, why? A knife is not a toy, it’s a tool. And if you play with it, you could get hurt. And even if you have a use for a knife, you need to know how to use it the right way.

My mom has a silver set. You know forks, spoons and knives. She keeps it in a special wooden box in a drawer in the dinning room. It has this iron rod with a handle. My mom says it’s a knife sharpener. I told her it’s called a knife iron or a knife hoaning tool. It doesn’t sharpen knives. What it does is removes microscopic pieces of metal from the blade so it will cut smoother.

Well back to the Damascus knife my girlfriend got me. So When I got it, I opened the package and looked at it. A hunting knife…..thank you. She told me the people on the phone told her it was called a Damascus knife. I never saw a pattern on a knife blade before. Well the next day I looked it up on the computer and learned about this type steel. Pretty interesting! But I really have no use for it except to open boxes and when we go camping. The rest of the time it’ll be in it’s box in a drawer. Then I started to read things. It said on the box it came in: This product contains led which is known to the state of California to cause cancer, etc. wash hands after use. Well the handle is rapped in leather, and the blade doesn’t have led, so it must be the back part, called the pommel. I think that what it’s called.

Now as I just recently learned, these knives (Damascus steel) are subject to rust, and must be taken care of. Of course you must care for any knife. Damascus steel is supposed to be very strong, and have a very sharp blade that keeps it’s edge for a log time. But it can rust. With stainless steel you just wipe it off after use, put it back in it’s sheath, and you’re done. And even if you forget to wipe it off, the stainless steel will not rust. Now being The Damascus knife My girlfriend got me has the handle rapped in leather, I can’t get it wet ether or it will start to shrink and tare. So there’s three things I need to worry about: rust, the led, and the leather handle. I told my girlfriend I’m going to send it back….the lead. And I don’t know if it’s real Damascus or not. I could take to a knife dealer.

“So what kind of kitchen knife would you get”, my girlfriend asked? A nice stainless steel knife. It doesn’t have to be anything special. And it doesn’t need to look dangerous ether. All it needs to do is chop and cut, and be easy to take care of. But you also don’t want a piece of junk. You don’t want to have a hard time cutting off the excess chicken skin.

Very informative, thank you so much!

I just bought a damascus knife I hope is good. Whats the first thing I need to do when I receive it. D Hanna

Thank you, I found it really interesting.

Good stuff Thx. Good thing no cheap. Cheap thing no good.

What would be a good steel for bushcraft hunting knife 5-6in blade

I find it disingenuous to call it Damascus steel. Unless you know otherwise the never did figure out the complete process and materials used. So it isn’t really Damascus steel in the first place. They cannot duplicate real Damascus steel from the past. It is just a gimmick sold with a lie holding it up. IT IS NOT DAMASCUS STEEL.

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