All About Pocket Knives

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.

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 ?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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