Save an extra $22 on this handmade Japanese forged kitchen knife set

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Originally published at: Save an extra $22 on this handmade Japanese forged kitchen knife set | Boing Boing

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[d_r]

You can save even more if you buy it with forged money.

[rob_bray]

Probably not, if your money is “hand-forged”

[FGD135]

[teknocholer]

Thanks for the advice. I wasn’t quite sure.

[Bobo]

So, basically two higher quality kitchen knives, some shears, and an unnecessarily hand forged and serrated bread knife?

In my household, we have a number of hand forged kitchen knives (helps to be a hobbyist custom knife maker), an you know what we use as a bread knife?

A cheap POS old stainless bread knife with a scalloped blade because we really liked the old pearl bakelite-esque handle. Seriously. If you’re doing serrations/scalloped edge as a feature, the benefit of forging pretty much goes out the window.

But at least we get to see something that’s not fake-damascus or “now marked down to 99.99 from eleventy billion dollars!” on the BB store.

And roughly $100 ea is not bad for a handmade knife if the heat treat is good…

[FGD135]

Follow-up:

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Ooh, edgy.