Well, the blades haven't shown up here yet, so I'm starting to think that they may have been lost at sea or something. The USPS homepage quotes delivery time as being "4-10 weeks" for the shipping alternative I chose, so I guess there's still a couple of weeks left until I should be really concerned, but still. Seems like two months to send a package via surface mail is a bit much. Oh well. They were only $10.10 so I'm not going bankrupt if they don't show up.

Oh, and apparently the wood is "sheesham", according to a person on a knife forum where I asked about it.