Brown Damascus Shikoto Tanto

Wow! For 50 bucks, keep stuff like this coming. I figured nice shelf piece either way, but I am so impressed. Paper test, check. Everything tight and brand new looking, check. This blade is really thick and a good chopper. Leather wrap is a rad tweak to a classic look, plus the legit sheath is great for normal belt carry. The Damascus is unpolished so it’s really dark and the pattern is faint, but I like it. All my other Damascus blades are polished so it’s a welcome variant to the display. Probably the only classicish tanto I’ll ever buy.

Amazingly crafted blade absolutely no complaints about this one. blade is super light handle has a good weight to it wicked sharp out of the box so be careful. Real genuine leather sheath so its a little hard to get the blade out for the first few times (thats what you would expect for leather) but fits in perfectly. Really happy with this buy and would recommend to anyone

United Cutlery creates some of the finest Damascus swords you can by in this price range, one of the things about there swords is the tangs are Damascus as well, witch is very unusual. As an expert in bladed weapons I highly recommend the Skikoto Tanto's, the only thing is the Kanji symbols actually say "United steel is strong". Thank you Daniel of Nebraska.

The sheath was leather and thus a tight fit for the blade, after a couple of times of pushing the blade in it started to rip of the sheath, also being so tight the sheath was rubbing the blade which apparently is dyed a darker color thus the dye rubs off because of the sheath. Received mine with a scratch on the pommel and 2 small dents in the blade. I will say that if you wanted to display this tanto without using the sheath it is beautiful and the leather rapped ito is very nice. 5 stars for looks, 2 stars for practicality.