Findking Eternity series 12" brisket knife
The knife came in a nice box with a velvet-flocked foam cutout and a magnetic closure -nice touch. It arrived razor sharp as any decent knife should. The Damascus pattern on the blade iss beautiful and the hammered dimples only add to the attractiveness. What drew me to this knife was actually not its attractiveness, but the fact that 2/3 of the vertical surface of the blade is dimpled which should make for excellent food release -an important consideration when slicing brisket. The other feature I was looking for was the octagonal wa-style handle, which very few brisket knives have.Several reviews complained about two things out of what I feel to be ignorance: the octagonal wa handle and the lightness of the blade. . .The handle: I actually prefer the octagonal wa handle as I not only find them to be comfortable but easier to articulate precisely than a rounded western-style ergo handle.The blade: This is a Japanese-style knife. They are supposed to be light. The steel is much, much harder than German steel and thus less mass is needed in the blade to maintain its shape and rigidity, yet they are not fragile despite their light weight. A thinner, lighter blade is preferable to a thick heavy Wusthoff as you can articulate the blade more easily, more precisely, with less fatigue. As the blade is extremely hard (62 rockwell), it will need to be sharpened far less often than its German steel counterparts.The blade appeared to be bent, as it was not in-line with the handle, but as the entire 12" length of the exposed blade was perfectly flat, so I think it is far more likely that the blade and tang were not bent at all, but that the injection molded wa handle was simply molded off-axis onto the blade (these are mass-produced in China which is why it is $70 instead of $300). I sent it back and Amazon sent me a new one. The new one is perfect.



















































































