Getting some serious knife envy here. Some lovely pieces
Thats all very well but will they cut over ripe tomatoes?
What are they like through bone?
Asking for a friend.
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these are excellent for over ripe tomatoes and finger tips…
Very high carbon Rockwell 62>66 knives are not suited for full on butchery… cutting through heavy bone… and may micro chip the fine cutting edge. But thats what your heavy bladed milder steel butchers knife is for.
I appreciate that the Chef’s Choice sharpener is entirely the wrong kind of anti-faff for this thread, but thanks to it my fucking bread knife can slice overripe tomatoes if required to.
Everything else is just public wanking 
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Universal forum reality.
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of course…
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For my part Japanese knives hand crafted and forged by Master blade smiths… often now in their 60’s and 70’s are much more than an adequate kitchen tool .
They range from a good quality high carbon or semi stainless knife that can be had for £125 with exceptional performance to Highly technically hand forged examples of masterly skill and great aesthetic beauty…
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Lovely, but at fifteen hundred quid a pop I think I’d frame it and hang it on the wall. Mind you, I would do the same with a lot of products if it were my choice, Miriam’s has other views.
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There you have it Bob…Pieces at such a rarefied level of blacksmithing… hot forged in small batches by a handful of highly revered artisan makers tend to transcend the kitchen workplace and are highly regarded more as works of art and are highly sought out by collectors.
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I dunno, that looks like it’s just some really hard steel (bearing steel maybe?) forge welded onto a lovely Damascus knife. That’s actually really sensible, but the Damascus is then purely for show. Form starts to overcome function, defeating the central tenet of craftsmanship…
Iron sand and coal isn’t “bearing steel”.
There are harder industrial steels about but that’s not really the point, it’s how they have made blades in Japan for 100s of years.
So much wrong there Adam 
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I’m no chef, I don’t think I need or warrant a knife like this…But as a piece of genuine artisan craftsmanship and expertise I want the hell out of one.
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Bacon Samitch anyone LoL!