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Master Blaster
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Japanese Nickel Damascus knives look exquisite and a little like they’re slipping out of reality
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Master Blaster
Sep 12, 2015
Don’t you hate it when you get ready to do some cooking and Paul Hogan comes out of nowhere ridiculing your cookware with taunts of “Ya call that a knife?”
Me too.
That’s why next time I’ll be ready with my new Nickel Damascus Chef’s Knife forged by famous Echizen blacksmith Takeshi Saji using techniques that span the globe. Now that’s what I call a knife!
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