Quote Originally Posted by niftyshaving View Post
Why...
History.... quality steel was rare and expensive.
The Japanese frugal solution was to weld
small amount on one side. Once
the weld was done the wedge shape
of the final knife is a given.

Yes with twice the steel it would have been
possible but difficult and more expensive to
weld the fine EXPENSIVE stuff in the middle
as a sandwich.

Japan was and is a resource starved island.





And again, that EXPENSIVE steel was put where ?? on where it was going to be used, on the omote side right ??
am i ??


would that be the reason why the side that is sharpen, the side that is used would be the omote ??
is that kinda of making some sort of sense ??