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but the benefits of the practice nowadays is to create stronger, thinner blades
Let's be real here. Does it? Really?
I absolutely appreciate the craft and effort, but I'm extremely dubious. I've only used one Japanese one that was my mates. Think it was in the £200-250 range. Definitely nice, and beautifully finished aesthetically, but was it really a better knife than the top end Wusthof's I tried out when buying my dad's? Honestly idk.
But then I'm fairly cynical about any trend that feels like it's grown out of reddit deep astroturfing.
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@3c70
To my understanding, yes and no. The techniques to make historic damascus have been lost but the benefits of the practice nowadays is to create stronger, thinner blades even if they arent as superior as ancient damascus blades.