Handmade Damascus Hunting Knife with Beautiful Pakkawood Handle for Survival and Camping 9 Inch Fixed Blade Damascus Steel Knife with Sheath for Men

Normally I wouldn’t be so negative about a $35 Knife that is actual Damascus, but just hear me out real quick. We’ll do a pros and cons list.Pros:it’s real Damascus, you can feel the difference in steels.At first glance it looks pretty impressiveIt would make a great although moderately expensive paper weight.Why?Cons:Sharpening angle makes sharpening rather difficult as there are dips in the grind and design.The blade will not sharpen at all, I’m only getting a rolling burr over and over. It will not even cut paper!The blade was likely not heat treated/hardened due to the utter softness and inability to hold an edge to cut paper.The craftsmanship is decent until you notice the warp in the blade causing it to bend to the left, the uneven grind that doesn’t line up, lopsided pin stock and the handle having deep 32 grit scratches over what looks like a final finish of 120 grit for the rest of it.If you’re into projects, you could easily make one out of this. Adding new pin stock, new handle slabs or refinish the ones you remove, fix that hollow grind, maybe even try to fix the bend in the blade, ACTUALLY HEAT TREAT THE KNIFE so it holds an edge, polish and re etch the steel, put everything back together, finish and sharpen.If you did all that ☝️ You could easily sell the knife for several hundred dollars, provided you replace the “goods overflow” stamped sheath with something that looks a little more high end.Summary: this is real Damascus and looks nice initially, but after inspecting you soon realize that this isn’t even a usable knife. It’s an expensive paper weight. This would easily be a five star review if I didn’t have to remove the handle slabs and pins from the tang and heat treat the blade myself. What can you really expect for $35 bucks? Well, I’d expect at least something that works, otherwise you’re just throwing money away for something that doesn’t work brand new.Kind of like a “make your own knife” kit where you have to take it apart and heat treat it and fix warps etc. sounds pretty frustrating! If nothing else you’d wanna finish the handles beyond 120 grit to make it look nicer, but without a heat treat to harden the blade, it’s no good as a knife.