00:04No, it is not a Rockstead. This is a Chinese clone. Not made in Japan, made in China.
00:23I don't know what to say. They've done a reasonable job, I suppose, of cloning the original, I suppose, for
00:41what it's worth.
00:44What I can say is that if this is one to one scale with the original, then it is horribly
00:57uncomfortable in the hand.
00:59It really, there's hotspots everywhere. I don't even know if I can tell you how many hotspots there are.
01:09Almost this entire edge is a hotspot. This entire edge is a hotspot. That clip is a hotspot.
01:15That finger guard there is a hotspot. The only thing that's maybe not a hotspot is the spine.
01:23But everything else is pretty well much a hotspot.
01:37The only reason I got this is because I was curious.
01:52It does not come that sharp from the factory. It's only as sharp as it is because I actually put
02:01a nice fresh edge on it.
02:04It's the only reason it's sharp. But I have to say, it feels absolutely horrible in the hand. It really
02:15does.
02:15And if the original is like this, then the original feels horrible in the hand.
02:21And I would hate to spend, what the hell is this thing worth?
02:26Around $2,000, $2,500 US for a knife that potentially feels absolutely horrible in the hand.
02:38Wow. I mean, you know, what kind of a nut job would spend that kind of money on a horrible
02:43knife?
02:44The device is on that front portion. That's not particularly good.
02:53So we'll go to the back portion, this part of the blade here, I think, just here.
02:57We'll see how that goes. Let's see if it fails as quickly.
03:27If it fails.
04:02Oh
04:03Oh
04:04Oh
04:09Oh
04:50So, let's go.
05:08OK, it's becoming exceedingly difficult to use because my hand hurts so much.
05:15OK, I think the Japanese have designed a really good hand torturer.
05:30Ooh, a little bit of a niggle there.
05:42Right at the corner.
05:44It's right at the corner.
05:49Ooh, that's not at the corner.
05:54Ooh, that was right at the corner.
05:59So, right where these two edges meet, that's where we're having a little bit of difficulty.
06:15OK, I'm going to call that a fail because my hand hurts like an SOB.
06:19OK, so absolutely for the last hundred slices there's been a bit of drag there and the failure point looks
06:31to be pretty well close to where these two edges meet.
06:34Because they are two separate edges.
06:37I sharpen this and then I sharpen this separately.
06:41They're not sharpened together, they're sharpened separately.
06:44If I sharpen them together then it's going to roll into one edge.
06:49Which may be better in the long run but, you know, there goes your tanto I suppose when you do
06:56that.
06:56Well, here's a little bit of drag.
06:56What is that, I'm going to draw it together.
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