Pgeo00, that was *pure* class, man. Only here!
An entire run, sold in 45 minutes! I have a feeling I'm going to be wearing holes up in the corners of more iPad screens pushing 'refresh' if this is any indication of Daniel's growing presence in the custom blade scene.
Hats off to DF for another outstanding product, yet again. I said it to Daniel in a personal email the day I received my first two DFKs, and I'll say it here on the forum-
I don't just enjoy having cool stuff. I take enormous pride in ownership from having examples of a Master Craftsman's work. Even though I've just rediscovered knives through stumbling on Daniel's work, the sheer quality of materials and worksmanship that just pours out of them was so immediately apparent, and is so gratifying to me, to the point where it actually makes me grin to handle and admire them- which I do sometimes in the course of actually working with one in the case of my 5160 'dashi!
I think perhaps that by owning an example of such beautiful worksmanship, we can in some way partake of the skill of the maker in a way that merely by watching Michael Jordan dunk a ball, or listening to Itzhak Perlman arpeggiate at 160bpm- no matter how thrilling- we cannot. The skill set is so many things from the flaking of stone by early hominids, to some of the most dazzling accomplishments of man like CNC manufacturing processes that by mankind's wits enable him to make more precise objects than his own hands can, by orders of magnitude. When I unwrapped my tsubamaki-gripped W2 Dashi, and saw the hamon, and felt the heft of it, the satisfaction was immediate. And it's only grown as I've owned it.
I plan on buying myself one of every single thing I can, that Daniel makes.
Consider yourselves warned.
