Hi Shaolin,

Yes, if you take it steady you can build up some nice knives over the years. I have been interested since I was a teenager so it works out at about one a year from there on in.

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If you want to find where to get the Japanese I have Google for a company called Japanese Knives Direct....said it this way incase posting connections is not allowed....this is ran really well and delivers internationally.

The US has some serious "poets of steel" though.....this is a knife made by a US custom knife maker Dusty Moulton which features a Devin Thomas damascus blade...it is 3 3/4 inches long and is a super steel in it's own right with a marvellous heat treatment. I have used this on Red Deer Hind culls in Scotland to gralloch 9 deer in a day and the edge was still incredibly sharp at the end when I came to touch the edge up. It split Atlas joints and knee joints and skinned four of the carcasses later in the week before needing a proper re-sharpening. This is my favourite hunting knife and never fails to impress me with what it can do. It is light and small....but it is a giant of a performer.





Another favourite......