>>1189673No, you take a short, 4-day class and forge a knife under the instruction of a master bladesmith. Most short classes can guarantee you'll make a complete knife in that time. You can't get a knife through clinkazon that will ever stand up to even an ugly but functional forged blade. For one, the vast majority of them use stainless or trash steel. Now, you can find decent folding knives that will work for a while, but will almost certainly break under consistent stress years down the line, especially after exposed to a little heat for whatever reason. This is truer and truer the larger a cheaply produced blade is because there are just more places within the steel where a fault can develop during manufacturing. The opposite is true for larger forged knives, however, because the potential for faults is meticulously worked out of the steel.
>>1189678"Forged" blanks are a meme. In truth, they're nearly all mass-produced in China and are just cheap, machine-pressed trash. If that's all you want, you really are better off with just complete *tink*-azon knives.
