Why Damascus Knives Are So Expensive | So Expensive | Insider Business

IF i had either money or good cooking skills I would buy one

Damascus is only cosmetic, I am a bladesmith, the guys on insider speak fluent yappanese.

Hey, if it’s a Damascus steel, it’s Damascus steel in my eye

Mad respect to the folks who are keeping the art of bladesmithing alive and well to this day.

I want to let anyone know that Zack is producing Damascus looking knives we lost the know how how to produce Dmascus steel. Layers of the Damascus steel probably came from some form of chemical reaction they performed years ago not from physical trauma that knives are put in.

Damascus sounds good lol was it inventet in syria because the name?

I love the way it looks and makes me proud as somebody born in Damsscus haha

Pakistani Damascus knife is good enough for me. I love Ebay😎

That’s pattern welded. NOT Damascus/wootz.

Iunno man 1500$ for a knife? I am not an expert but I know a good blacksmith and even with the master carpenter involved 300 bucks for a knife that will outlast the user. 100k on equipment and doesn't have heat treating oven furnance. Lil bizare. But hey if there are buyers why not, these knives cool but not 1500$+ cool

how many people should I kill with an ordinary knife (ingame ofc) to get this Damascus one?

This was unbelievably fluffy and nonsensical.

Lol, the thumbnail, and opening shot combined with the title will mislead people. That's what you have to do if you want to profit, though, right? Damascus steel is neither harder nor sharper nor "better" in any objective way. Indeed, the heterogeneity of the grains would seem to make it more likely to crack than regular steel. Congrats on doing what you all seem to take as a central task of your business, now, though, which is to lead people in with a lie. I realize that you win, since I'm leaving a comment, and that's all that matters to folks like you. So I went ahead and gave you a thumbs-down and blocked your channel, as well. You got me once! Hope it was worth it.

This is absolute horseshit. What we call Damascus steel now and the historical term are different. The modern version is what is described here. It does not produce a superior blade. The best it can do is almost as good as a mono steel or San mai steel blade. The problem with Damascus is, every single weld is a potential point of failure, and some faults are undetectable. If you start with a bar of mono steel and grind it to shape before heat treating, you can know that it is utterly free of structural flaws. That is not possible with Damascus. Damascus requires forging, with always risks introducing stress flaws. Historical Damascus was just steel that came from the region of Damascus, and they likely had access to a source of iron with additional elements that produced good steel for swords. The properties of steel can vary considerably based on the specific alloy.

you messed up the subtitles.

and now a KIWI knife can do the same...

for $100k, it must be a Saudi Prince who's ordered that!

I WANT ONE

dead art...you can get decent Damascus for wayyyyyy less

any thing thats "expensive" is ONLY expensive because humans placed a price on it. theres no need for a 10 min vid to explain this. doesnt matter how much work it took to build these things. many great things have been built during human existence and given away for free. so yeah....

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So ein blödes Messer benutzt doch niemand !
ist das so bescheuert lackiert ? Die sollen pleite gehen und zwar ganz schnell !

The cost is 20,000 dollars, but that's just a fraction of all his machinery, which cost him 100,000 dollars. Well, that's actually one-fifth of it

how many kills i need to unlock this

Nice Knoife

Pathetic, didn't even make a perfect slice in the thumbnail with such an expensive knife

Because is a pain in the ass to grind that camo in cod 🤷‍♂️

No it's nopt. That is a Pattern Welded Knife. Any knife, being more dense than a tomato, can be sharpened and cut like this, at least once.

If he was born doring the Middle ages he would have been a legend making swords

I wish I could make knives. My job is basically to endure abuse and fail at impossible tasks.

Eh, damascus has nothing to do with how sharp a knife is... You can sharpen cheap gas station knives to be razor sharp. Edge retention is another thing, but... don't make the claim damascus has anything to do with a knife being sharp. Someone knowing how to sharpen a knife has to do with a knife being sharp.

Don't confuse this with damascus steel. The technology of damascus steel making is unknown.

I think I have chunks of that exact same tree that ironwood came from lol I have some identical blocks I bought for my lathe from a particular known blacksmith

wow that was soo good video! i hope noone died and i teached a lot of thinks while watching it! its soo amazing too thiks like that cause its not common to see pepole using that great knife in the public! I hope everyone is healthy and why is this snowing there? where are u right now guys? cause snow is rlly cool iteam! i love christmas and santa! i hope u get more subscribes cause this channel is soo good! today i ate sphagetti! i hope zack is okay!! and all the knifes u are making looks rlly great! i liked this video good night!

bro just sharpen your knife

This video turned me gay, thanks liberals!

"and while high end monosteel knives may perform similarly" - thats all you need to know. dont get a damascus, its a scam.

So expansive ?? They are not at all expensive

Honestly, you can simply buy Damascus steel and craft your knife from it... the idea of Damascus steel was to combine lesser quality steel with higher quality to get a costeffective acceptable quality... not more, not less...

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Let me tell you a secret - it is how you sharpen it that matters for cutting :D And NOTHING else :D Hardness only determines how long it stays sharp and how long it needs to sharpened.

thats what damascus.... thats what the point of Damascus...

Damascus/Wootz steel traces its origin to India. Alexander was gifted a sword made of such when he came to India.

Can I put it in the dishwasher? xD

1/5th of something is not where the term "drop in a. bucket" is to be used lol

Damascus steel knives are all hype. My primary kitchen knife was bought from a poundshop. I keep it scary scarp all the time and the cooks were always trying to borrow it.
In my experience domestic male cooks buy Damascus steel knives and they know nothing about how to use or maintain them.

Damascus has nothing to do with sharpness, on the contrary, to make the sharpest blade you want an uniform mixture.
Perhaps 300 years ago the claims were true but not today in the age were we can make perfectly uniform mixtures of steel with titanium... these days Damascus is ONLY decorative.
Check your facts.

It's just a ripoff
I sharpen Morrisons knife on 2000 whetstone and it's equally sharp