Justin0505
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Funny pointing and laughing going on here, and I'd agree that they are priced high and coated in thick layers of Schwartz. However, I got the chance to use a 210 and it's indeed a good knife.
The steel reminds me of Takeda's blue super in terms of feel: hard, but not glass-hard has good chip resistance, easy to sharpen / gets stupid sharp, holds onto teeth well even at high polish.... edge retention is very good. It's difficult to compare, but I'd say as good or better than Takeda, possibly approaching Dave's 01. Reactivity is weird: doesn't seem super reactive, but it gets VERY dark... darker than anything else that I've used. Not that it really matters, but OTB edge was as good as I've ever seen: done by someone who understood sharpening and understood the steel.
Blade is thin but has very little flex, and in many ways reminds me of a Carter, maybe not quite as thin BTE, but with a much more even grind and finish. The finish is really weird it looks almost like the finish you'd get from a pretty coarse wire wheel, but it's very even and very smooth and shiney. Almost like if you took a really coarse but even finish and then buffed the heck out of it. Weird, but not bad or wrong... it may be done by a sword polisher, but it sure looks like he's using power tools, not stones. Price and MARKeting are the real problems with this one.
The steel reminds me of Takeda's blue super in terms of feel: hard, but not glass-hard has good chip resistance, easy to sharpen / gets stupid sharp, holds onto teeth well even at high polish.... edge retention is very good. It's difficult to compare, but I'd say as good or better than Takeda, possibly approaching Dave's 01. Reactivity is weird: doesn't seem super reactive, but it gets VERY dark... darker than anything else that I've used. Not that it really matters, but OTB edge was as good as I've ever seen: done by someone who understood sharpening and understood the steel.
Blade is thin but has very little flex, and in many ways reminds me of a Carter, maybe not quite as thin BTE, but with a much more even grind and finish. The finish is really weird it looks almost like the finish you'd get from a pretty coarse wire wheel, but it's very even and very smooth and shiney. Almost like if you took a really coarse but even finish and then buffed the heck out of it. Weird, but not bad or wrong... it may be done by a sword polisher, but it sure looks like he's using power tools, not stones. Price and MARKeting are the real problems with this one.