Middle Eastern blacksmiths shaped an Indian steel called wootz into blades with a rippling sheen and remarkable edge retention. Orioners has introduced this mythical steel to its 1.18-inch cutting ...

Leading them off is the cutting edge, a 3.73-inch hollow-ground wharncliffe-shaped blade made of CPM S35VN or Damascus steel, for $10 more. At the moment, the Damascus-bladed variant of the ...