[Sca-cooks] Damascus kitchen knives

[aeduin]

>
>A little Googling turns up the following info:
>
>Kai is the Japanese company that makes them.  Kershaw is the U.S. (and
>Eurpoean?) importer/distributor for the Shun line.  The same knives are also
>apparently imported under the name Kasumi by the same guys who import the
>Global line.
>
>The Shun Classic knives use cladding to achieve the pseudo-Damascus look.
>The Shun Pro line are folded, don't have the Damascus look, and have the
>traditional Japanese hollow-ground chisel edge.
>
> >From the numbers on them, the weight and balance seem to be somewhere
>between the typical super-light Japanese-made knives like Global and the
>big, heavy Solingen blades.
>
>-Lorenz

So, how about the Caidans meet at the Sur Le Table in Thousand Oaks on 
Sunday to see if they will let us try them out...

AEduin