Don't mean to go off topic:
Knife making can take you years of learning and practicing.
Or you can have a very useful knife made cheaply, if you have a few simple tools.
Since I didn't want to spend $500; A knife I made: a 330mm single bevel yanagiba.
- $20.00 tool steel (D-2 steel) on ebay. Tool steel can be excellent for kitchen knives. Tool Steel is made for cutting steel.
- Shape the steel with an angle grinder into a blade you want ( you can buy an angle grinder from HarborF for less than$20 if you don't have one)
- Send to have the blade cryo-hardened and tempered ($20)
- Sharpen the hardened blade yourself, add handle.
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