Do you use your damascus blades?

[Lord_Balkan]

If you do, please post some pictures of your used Damascus knives! I'm curious to see how well the patterns hold up.

 

[Horsewright]

3.5-4 years as a constant EDC:

Telling my partner where we found the cattle. We both wear our damascus knives cross draw horizontal:

My ranching partner's. Bout the same age:

Our knives get used. My daughter is cutting a calf here, I can tell its her as most of my cowboys don't wear red finger nail polish:

Ya know what she's holding up:

Anyhoo I've never found it to be a real problem. I find they age kinda gracefully kinda like holster wear on a blued gun.

 

[Charlie Mike]

L6/O1

 

[19-3ben]

L6/O1

Wow. That's... an interesting background.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Don't have one yet but would have no problem using it if I did.

 

[Lord_Balkan]

I was thinking about getting this, but I don't know if I could bring myself to use it

 

[red mag]

@cm: I guess you don't use it for food preparation?

 

[jc57]

L6/O1

 

[wazu013]

L6/O1

CM Log Splitter.

 

[The Zieg]

If you do, please post some pictures of your used Damascus knives! I'm curious to see how well the patterns hold up.

When I bought this little Mercury from Dawson Knives in July, the Cerakote set off the pattern in stark relief:

After over a month of heavy use (and a little help from a blue Scotchbrite pad to keep it even), it now looks like this:

and . . .

It's on my hip most days. The Cerakote is completely gone except for a bit around the ricasso. At first the pattern was near invisible, but now that a patina is forming, the Damascus pattern is coming back into view. The "Dawson Select" etching still shows up if you hold it at the correct angle, but it didn't show up here. And yes, that is the same knife as the Dawson showroom pic at the top. The desert ironwood (Olneya tesota) changes color in different light. Here in the kitchen under direct sun (and outdoors) it's greenish. At dusk it starts to look brown. Under artificial light it goes tan. (Sadly, it doesn't glow when orcs and goblins are around )

(The Double E is not original to the sheath. That's our company brand I burned into it.)

If you have a damacus blade, LB, use it!

Zieg

 

[The Zieg]

L6/O1

Didn't. Need. To. See. This.

Zieg

 

[bearfacedkiller]

At least he spared you the pic of him batonning the log. No one wants to see someone batonning...

 

[Charlie Mike]

New meaning to "turd cutter"

 

[katanas]

I hope that's not how CM tests the knives he makes. I really planned on having him make one for me, but cutting??? We already know his knives are tough, maybe he is demonstrating that they will cut ANYTHING!

 

[Charlie Mike]

When you run out of body hair...

 

[number9]

Wow. That's... an interesting background.

No $#!+.

 

[19-3ben]

CM Log Splitter.

You win. Plain and simple.

 

[Charlie Mike]

GD, this thread went to crap quick... Sorry for derailing

 

[Hoze928]

Wow. That's... an interesting background.

Lol!!!!!!! I almost fell off the couch since I was thinking the same damn thing.

 

[SCWillson]

I have two; one is my civilian EDC. It's held up just fine, but I don't use it for anything heavy duty.