Okay, I do not know how to use that but see many people do. I have one lovely picture I would like to share. It is my favorite knife and a WH. The picture is on my pc not my phone though. My brother took it in a light box he is a pro photographer. I don't mean to brag but I would like to show it because i think it is amazing. I understand most of you here are different than me. Outdoors type that use knives. I am fine with that since obviously that is their intended purpose. I am glad many of you are okay with what I do too. The thing is even though these can cut, one I have nothing to cut in my life! Two, I feel it will ruin their value. Sure you drive a supercar but I think this is a little different. It is like a coin collection, you do not go spend them. As far as the Aisha just go look on Amazon. It is a $50 knife let's not get carried away about it. I would understand if it was a clone but it is not seemingly. One thing I said before is I do not understand why it is 11.6 ounces. A similar looking good knife is 2-3 ounces. I do have to say I think this is better than the knife show on HSN but I have no experience with that. I would honestly say as good as a $25 Buck. That is good actually. Enough about that though. ( know you guy's want to see expensive ones. It is funny though how this turned from a $50 knife to $50k ones. Absolutely not in the same class of course.
I've inspected (and tested) a few Pakistani knives.
Some of them are decent, some of them are just junk. Even from the same "Maker" this varies wildly.
The reason I put a maker in quotes is because a lot of the guys who claim to make the knives in fact don't. They have a whole group of guys doing all the work for them.
From what you tell us it sounds like you got a decent one. Good for you, nothing wrong with that.
Here's why I personally am not impressed with Pakistani knives in general. It can be summed up pretty simply:
They don't seem to understand knife functionality
They do pretty well with all the trimmings and details. Mirror polishes, Damascus, filework, multiple materials on one handle. All stuff that they're pretty good at.
But then it comes to cutting and you get: Thick grinds, bad edges, poor heat treats, mystery metals (even they sometimes don't know which steel is in the blade they sent you...which makes sense if you remember...the guy you're dealing with doesn't actually have anything to do with the production of said piece), heavy weight, THICK handles, Square handles etc.
The knives are being sold by them as wallhangers...because that's what they made them like.
A highly functional knife will have the liners driller or milled out to save weight.
A thinner grind to save weight and to cut better.
A riskier heat treat to make it cut longer/be tougher etc.
Rounded handles to make for a more comfortable grip.
So in short...you're completely right. For something you want to treat as a safe queen, nothing wrong with a pakistani knife like that.
As soon as you want to pass it off as a good knife however...you might want to stick with the $25 buck that was made as a knife FIRST and something pretty SECOND...instead of the other way around.
