recently got this knife as a gift and it’s my first Damascus steel.

i am never happy with the edge, it has teeth, it doesn’t glide. fine when cutting bread but awful for an apple :/

is that normal for damascus?

  • merde alorsOPEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    From the picture it looks like it’s chipping along the seams between the metal layers, which is a bad sign.

    that’s what i see, yes. i can even feel the different layers with my fingertips.

    It’s a gift and i don’t trust the steel enough to resharpen from scratch. I am afraid of opening up one of those layers that end up vertical to the edge

    I wouldn’t buy this knife but now that it’s gifted, i don’t want to break it either :/