From the land of the Katana

[Capt. Farrel]

Look what the postman brought today! I couldn´t resist and had to get one of those scary sharp Rocksteads. This is only the little CHOU in YXR-7 steel, a tool steel which is around 65 Rockwell. It´s long enough for most of the cutting tasks which are thrown at it in an urban enviroment and should need resharpening in about three years. A little bit of stropping now and then is said to be enough. The bad news is that to regain that factory edge I will have to send it to Japan. Well, you can´t have it all...
The steel is not stainless so they coated it with DLC (diamond like carbon coating). That mirror polish on the blade is awesome! It has a small Kydex sheath and comes in a nice japanese fabric pouche.
Fortunately the price is not as insanely high as with their folders.

As beautiful as it is, this is meant to be a EDC and Rockstead even encourages you in this. After all they are a tool making company.

[philco]

Frank that's a very interesting piece of cutlery. I don't think I've encountered anything quite like it. What is the total length of that knife ?

[knifetime]

Real neat knife. Looks like it was made to last.

[Capt. Farrel]

Philco, overall is just 120 millimeters. It´s quite some space age knife!

[MountainMan]

I got to say, that is a cool looking knife. Where did you get it from?

[Capt. Farrel]

There is a german importer who sells them over the internet: www.zukuri.de
Heinnie Hayes in Britain has them too:http://www.heinnie.com/search.asp?strKe ... mit=%C2%A0

I am not connected to these sellers in any way other than being a customer.

The prices for their folders are outragous but it is said that they are worth their money.

[MountainMan]

Holy carp Capt. I'm not doing the conversion but 334.00 pounds of ANYTHING is expensive.

[Capt. Farrel]

You should see the folders! Definitely a hole lot of money but those edges are like nothing else. Maybe Fällknivens japanese layer steel comes close.
The little CHOU is my permanent EDC now.

[jerryd6818]

A couple of pages of Rockstead knives at KnifeCenter.com priced in US Dollars.

http://www.knifecenter.com/brand/387/Ro ... ese-Knives