Shallow markings on expensive knives?

[Sami P]

This is not as much a question as it is a solicitation for thoughts and personal experience. Do you know how on cheap Chinese knives most of the times the stamped text on the blade ("Stainless steel", "440C", "China", etc) is shallow and sometimes letters are even nearly invisible? I always took that as a sign of cheapness and bad stamping machines and quality control etc. But recently I saw a few knives that are very expensive from quality makers with very shallow text stampings on them. Is that something that should bother me or is it fairly common on all knives good and bad? Have you seen shallow or invisible text on high quality knives before?

 

[brets-ftw]

depends on the method of marking some with be acid etched which IMO looks nice and so on.

as a point of interest 440c is actually a decent steel, unlike the far more common 440 stainless, 440 series, 400 series etc

 

[Sami P]

Thanks for you reply. Best