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Biggest Knife Scam on Youtube... Kamikoto Kitchen Knives
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
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0:00 UA-camrs that fell pray
1:48 one minute sponsor
2:44 explaining the scam
6:32 rope cutting test
8:56 The destruction
11:33 conclusion
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Why didn’t you mention Husk knives?
You guys are on the Damn MONEY 👍🏻 Miikes band sounds amazing.
MARTY, WHY DO U LOOK 30...AND MIKKI LOOKS 50?
SEMPER FI
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ua-cam.com/users/shortsI9_aZUyLge0?feature=share this knife next please
Hope to see you test one of Fredrik Haakonsen (Haakonsen Knives) knives soon. He's a Norwegian knife maker with a Ph.D. in Metallurgy. His Bushcrafter or SERE model might be a great option for you. In A8 Mod or Vanadis 4E. Don't be fooled by the A8 Mod, his is on a whole other level than the A8 Mod most people have experienced. His knives are pricey, but absolutely premium built with amazing heat treatment as one could expect.
Fun Fact: The company that sells these knives also owns Established Titles... so... yeah.
hhhhhuh
@@Omabatfartsbruhthere's a whole thing where buying 1 square foot of land in Scotland doesn't make you a lord or lady, but established titles says it does
Enough said😂
A truth too good to be a lie.
They also own a company called “failed ventures” whose actual slogan is “come fail with us”
No way the steel is called Sus420 💀
Yeah, it is dope!!
It is haha! It's actually one of the oldest stainless steel alloys out there, around 100 years old now. 420, 440a were the first cutlery stainless steels way back then.
Hahaha! 😂
Very sus indeed🤔
Yeah, just got in from work. About to have a sus420 moment myself.
My friend tried to get me into that "Cutco Knives" scam back in the late 2000's. I went to one of their "classes" with him and during the presentation I told the guy running it that my pocket knife could do the same stuff. I pulled it out and showed him it cut just as well as their "quality" knife and he kicked me out 😂
So, i've recently heard that cutco knives are now considered to be garbage. I actually have the ultra deluxe ultra set. I got it for free since i used to work for them and won it for hitting a sales goal. I will say workong for them is complete garbage, hahaha.
But that knife set is very solid. There are a few knives that are just bells and whistles. But the set that i have hasnt been sharpened in about 10 years, and it still glides through meat like day one. I do hone the blades still, but they haven't been sharpened since i got them.
Going back to original statemnt though, i heard their QA has gone down the shitter hard. So i may have gotten one of their last few good sets.
Cutcos aren't bad.
@@perpetualconfusion5885 the knives might not be bad, but the idea of going door to door trying to sell them, and the way the "class" on selling them was held it just seemed very scam like to me. And the fact that I got kicked out for showing their knives up with a pocket knife
@@SegwayBossk oh yeah their company is real shady for sure. Big pyramid scheme
No you didn't.
Yes, call them out, give them some proper ‘exposure’. Well done guys
These scam artists are behind ALOT of the more common scam sponsorships like established titles etc.
Deal Dash is how they got their start, no clue how people are still falling for that one.
"pay per bid (even when you lose)"
@@jormungand72 Most people look at "brands" and not the company behind it, that's how they get away with it.
@@trechtzach8151 Nope, they form a parasocial relationship with their "e-celebrity stars" and buy whatever they recommend like the mindless gullible cattle they are. ANobody ever heard of "Kamikoto" before these grifters were purchased to push them.
To add on, established titles is even more scammy then the big UA-camrs exposing them uncovered.
- 8$ monthly plant *a* tree pledge auto checked by default
- the price per tree for their charities they work with is 25 cents to a dollar
- the two mil trees planted figure they use was static from Dec 2021 till Dec 2022 (stopped checking after that, not sure If changed)
- a Scottish land rights activist looked into their land and found some of the land they were claiming, they didn't own, and the land they did own was bought super cheap (like 2 cents for a square foot 'plot' iirc)
- doesn't appear they're properly conserving the land they do own
- they never publish how many plots sold so ... No proof they actually have enough land to match their sales (or tree planting).
Most people got caught up on the Lord title but so much worse. they're doing enough for plausible denial ability for those who don't actually look into it thoroughly. And they got people to defend them because of hate around cancel culture... Sigh.
you got scammed into thinking alot is a word
Kamikoto and Huusk are basically jusy high end packaging companies that put garbage knives in nice boxes
Yes, I catch myself buying stuff I don't need because it has a nice box as a package, which I can then use to put knives into. :D
Amen Cedric
I would be much happier with a company that put nice knives and garbage boxes. I would be even happier if I got to take out the garbage. I watched your review of the Husk POS. NICE.
It's so nice to see UA-camrs standing up for their viewers and not promoting these scams even though they are losing money by not accepting them. Thanks for being honest, Subscribed.
Thanks mate!
I believe some youtubers tend to forget that they are nothing without their viewers. That can never happen!!
My wife was a chef for 25 years. Many of those spent in Michelin-starred restaurants. Most chefs, unless they become a celebrity, don’t make a lot of money, even working in high-end restaurants. She used and still uses the same Victorinox chef’s knife which costs about $80 now. She keeps it sharp with a few passes on a diamond steel about every other day. I have to sharpen it every few months from typical home-cooking use. And I’ve always wondered why I don’t see more outdoor knife enthusiasts using steels for honing instead of stropping. Not saying one is better, but she’s never seen a strop used in a kitchen.
My grandfather had a flat sharpening steel made by Schrade - the real Schrade, the U.S. company. It was made for belt knives and folding knives and not kitchen knives. I say that because it is less than half the length of a kitchen steel and was made without a handle, almost more like a steel pocket stone than a kitchen steel plus it came with a leather sheath. I learned to sharpen knives at a pretty young age and whenever we would visit him and my step-grandmother I would use it to put a keen edge in his (real) Schrade Sharpfinger as well as whatever knives I had on me. When he passed I got that steel and still use it, sometimes, especially if I have a stubborn knife that doesn't get quite the edge I want from the leather belt I use as a strop. I don't do either/or, though. I will use the steel and then strop it. Sometimes there might be a ceramic rod in there somewhere, too. I don't know how many times various knife blades have passed across that steel but it still looks the same as it did when I was old enough to be using it (around ten or eleven) forty years ago.
I think the current iteration of Schrade may still make that type of steel but I'm not sure. I know I have a few small, round steels that they were making during the Taylor Brands iteration of Schrade. These things are about the size of an average, inexpensive Ferro rod but come to a sharp point and have a fishing hook groove. They came with a round, plastic 'sheath' for storage. They work okay for their size, I suppose, but that flat steel is where it's at.
Two reasons: Using a steel correctly is difficult. It's also perfect for softer knives as it hardens the edge. It's less useful/problematic for the hard super steels used by the enthusiasts
I stopped using a strop in the kitchen as I thought it is nice for better test cuts after sharpening but it has no real impact on the thousand cuts that follow.
I use both a very fine steel and a mirror smooth polishing steel on my kitchen knives. My knives are stainless steel from Güde, Eicker, Dick, Zwilling, Wüsthof and Victorinox as well as some extremely sharp carbon steel knives from Sabatier. They don't even need to see a stone once a year, just daily on the polishing steel and if that isn't enough then the fine steel. My wife (previously worked as a cook in a five star hotel) loves the 9 inch carbon Sabatier chefs knife the most. On the other hand she doesn't really grasp how to care for a carbon knife so I am her "knife care technician".
A honing steel will eat away the blade quickly. It probably doesn't matter for a professional chef as its quicker and when the blade is gone they just get a new knife.
Not exactly the same for stropping vs honing. Honing is used in the kitchen because the edge of the knife folds after use (and becomes 'dull') so honing steel helps return it straight for use immediately after (eventually, you'll still need to sharpen the knife) - think of it as a quick fix to get the knife 'sharp' again for the next set of cuts.
Stropping is used after sharpening to straighten the very fine/ microscopic level inconsistencies but it isn't meant to make large corrections so it'd take too long in a commercial kitchen where you don't have that much downtime.
Both have a role to play in practice.
In fact, you don't even need a dedicated honing steel, as a kid, my (Chinese) grandma used to use the bottom (unglazed) edge of porcelain bowls for honing - the material kind of acts like a very fine stone as well so depending on how you use it, it can be a fine grit stone or for honing.
It's incredible how far companies will go to scam people out of hard earned money. The Box is worth more than the knives that are in it. I truly feel sorry for all those that were taken advantage of, but learn your lesson and only buy products from reviewers that actually use knives, not sponsored by them, and have a track record for honest reviews. Thanks for the great vid and keep making sharp things fun and enjoyable
thanks a lot Todd!
feel the same way about my S1 pro .. but at least that still has a use.
also know that raid shadowlegends? Wonder how the fuck they have all that money to pay for ads? Seems fishy to me
by the thickness of the wood its not hard fetched its the most expensive part of that set
I wouldn't even buy a sponsored knife from a person dealing with knives. Every sponsored video makes the product better than it is. i wonder about the mentality of people who buys that. like... WHY? what led them to this incredibly stupid life decision, are they even legally competent people?
I have seen "Hand Made Damascus Steel" in the shop window. The trouble is, the other box had EXACTLY the same Damascus Pattern on it also. Lazer Etched to look like something unique.
Laser
You might be interested to know Kamikoto is own by the same people that were selling Scottish lordships last year. Their marketing style as stated on the parenting company website is quick fail ventures. They just run scam after scam until one sticks. Then when its called out they drop it and run some more.
Edit to add: The investigative UA-camr Illuminaughty found this connection when researching Established Titles before Kamikoto even took off. Video: Established Titles is Far More Complicated Than You Think.
And now illuminaughty is being outed as cunt lmao.
Not saying what she said isn't true, but just adding onto the pieces of shit featured in the video (being Ben Shapiro and shadiversity not the hosts lol)
And now Illuminaughty is being outed as a horrible person herself. It's like those ultra-conservatives who turned out to be debauched degenerates.
Well look at that. I made this comment right before the Illuminaughty thing popped off. While what I said in my comment is true I dont think I would be as comfortable referencing her today. What a difference a month makes.
The Quartering was flogging both knives qnd titles. Makes his 'premium' coffee offer look a little sus.
@@williamjenkins4913 oof lol. TBF, she did raise some good points before she went full dumb. I assume the difference is that the good content were written by people doing proper research, whereas her attacking somebody over them using an After Effects plugin was probably her own attempts at "research".
LOVE the video, there are a couple points I would like to add. first, it is technically a Japanese steel, or should I say a Japanese recipe of steel. the 400 series, including 420J, are types of Japanese created steels, but do not have to be made in Japan. much like I can make "Japanese sushi", while being 5k miles from japan. the 400 series are not terrible, it contains 420hc, a big improvement over 420j, and 440c, which is a mid tier knife steel. this also comes down heat treat as well, something very poorly made knives have a problem with. If the heat treat is good on a 420j knife, it can be a reasonably good knife and a low price. side note, the handle is attached the same way a shun. thanks for pointing out these low quality high cost knives
When the entire Kamikoto set costs as much as I paid for a good Henckel French knife, I knew something was “SUS”pect. Good on you for not taking the quick cash like a lot of other people did.
If I was a UA-camr and got sent that read id be like put me in touch with in chef that uses these
Even though the prices seem high (and they are for what you get) for real high end knives they're not that expensive. People just are lazy and naive... My fallkniven chef knife was $250 had it for years, love it, barely needs sharpening... That's quality. Japanese and German knives otherwise from select makers. I'm a knife freak though.
You should cover more scam knives, i see alot of expensive knifes that cost alot of money
If it isn't a mora wrapped in plastic scales, it is a scam.
Its crazy these knives sell at the same price point as Shun, an actual Japanese maker using decent steel.
LMAO 🤣 You think so ? LMAO 🤣
@@iwontbebeat7111LMAO 🤣 You use can't even spell what it is. LMAO
I almost bought a set of these as a gift for my dad. What ticked me off was their site, it said there was a like 70% discount during Christmas time. And then it also said there were only 72 hours left of that discount. I was suspicious so I opened the site at my work the next day and again there were 72 hours left. So I let the timer run out at home, refreshed and discount was back on with 72 hours to go. Needless to say, I bought something else.
I know Spyderco uses SUS410 (not sure the difference) as a laminate over their AWESOME super blue steel. I really really really really wish they still made full unlaminated super blue steel blades. God they get a GORGEOUS patina with a little kitchen use.
I can't stop laughing at you guys man,,, I mean it's literally like it's a fifteen-minute commercial,, it just doesn't stop and it's not a commercial for good things, it's a commercial for bad things, which is good😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for the smiles on a Thursday morning gentleman....
DBK ? THANK YOU ! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO !! AS A JAPANESE , I KNEW THIS SCAM IS GOING ON EVERYWHERE FOR LONG TIME SINCE LATE 70S. MAINLY BY CHINESE AND S KOREANS. EVEN I TELL PEOPLE ON FORUMS PEOPLE JUST DON'T BELIEVE ME AT ALL. I'M SO THANKFUL THAT YOU GUYS CLEARED THIS OUT FOR EVERYONE AND FOR EVERY GREAT JAPANESE KNIFE MAKERS . THANK YOU. 😍🙏
And if you like these knives, there is a plot of land just for you in Scotland!
Manscaped
hahahahaha
I want to agree with others - update the sharpness tests by using the Edge-On-Up measurement inbetween testing! Maybe test each blade near the hilt, belly, and tip after each round, for fairness.
Love you guys, thanks for exposing this scam!
Thanks boys! I saw these advertised on a channel I follow that is barely relevant to knives so I ignored it but I was planning to do some research on them in the future out of curiosity because the ad was very impressive if they spent any money at all it was on advertising! But you guys just saved me the trouble ❤
Good work gentlemen. When I first saw these advertised I thought I was going crazy. I tried to look all this up and it took almost an hour to find out. After finding the truth as opposed to what was implied by their marketing I thought they would be dropped by the public very quickly......a year later there are youtube channels promoting these knife like objects all over the place abd ut made me a bit sick. Thanks for having the guts to expose the rotten jerks. I share your opinion of these knives.
Not just guts but I'm sure they were offered a lot of money to shill that crap. I know they generally always recommend fallkniven knives, but there's a reason for that, they're amazing knives I own a bunch... I love them, I'd bet my life on them. I own other brands to, but I love the swede's. My everyday carry until I lost it 😢.
You guys are awesome. Great job exposing these rip off companies... keep up the great work. John
Thank god there's DBK (and DBK strop & compound) who will always expose such scammers!
Good video guys. The community needed this call out 👍🏻
You guys did a solid good deed by makin this vid&exposin the company&scam. The same kinda scam was done with the sale of plots of land in Scotland&a Lord title.
Thanks guys, your effort is much appreciated!
getting sponsored by one of the best knife companies out there while tearing apart one of the worst ones is awesome
Looks like Huusk/Caveman/Viking knives have a new competitor in making hyped trash knives. The number 1 clue that something isn't very good is when the company does excessive marketing. See: The James Brand
You could quantify how much a knife dulls by utilizing your string machine that tests sharpness after the rope cuts instead of slicing paper.
Happy Thursday you legends!
Ps after seeing the price of the set- holy hell you’d be paying to grab your ankles and take one for the team.
I think one of the other channels had managed to link kamikoto to the same parent company that was pushing established titles, the "buy a bit of land and become a lord" grift. Allegedly.
Thanks for keeping it real guys!
Thank you my friends!
Im happy you clarified about the lamination part, because i own a fallkniven a1 or a2, been years lol, beaten the hell out of it, it's hacked into flesh,bone,wood and More without damage.
I remember watching a video destruction test of it once, due to lamination, even after it broke it looked like one of those broken lord of the rings blades, sure not as good but still a functional weapon,better than most.
Yes! Been kinda hoping you guys would call this bs out!
First heard about these on Shads video and have laughed at their ads since.
Keep up the awesome work.
Cheers!
Thank you for doing this guys. I think most folks in your audience are into the knife community enough that they're not fooled by this trash, but the problem is that they're not marketing to us; they're marketing intentionally to people who don't know any better. In my opinion, on top of all the other lies and issues, that's just predatory.
Knife community?
Dude, I am loving all these scam knife companies being outed. Right tf on…🔪
You piqued my curiosity with the claim, kept me around with your guys' energy and humor, and won me as a subscriber with the Dragonball theme song at the end.
I don't know jack sh*t about knives, but It's good that I now have a new resource with which to learn. Great video!
Remember.. every Kamikoto purchase also buys a Lordship in Scotland
You guys are awesome. Love your sense of humour! Can't wait to watch more videos!
Yeah, shadiversity exposed them too. Great job guys!
Indianapolis Indiana United States of America. And I'll tell you gentlemen I can't stop watching you guys I've been subscribed for years. You guys always put out great content and I don't know if you guys are doing this naturally or somebody's writing it for you but I'm just saying. Thanks for the videos Brothers.😊😊😊
A knife with no tang that's called 'premium'. Lmao.
Get the feeling JoeX would make short work of these
Lol it wouldn’t even make it past 1 strike on the car door
Joe would break these just by looking at them!
When the steel is literally named sus....
I really needed a new DBK video today. Thanks gentlemen.
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Everytime there is a scam out there, you can be sure to have a right-winger involved in a way or another… 🤣
I don't like scamers. But knife scamers are the worst. Good job calling them out. The Elementum fixed blade rocks! Do a video on that one!
Civic makes decent knives at an affordable price. Definitely a good knife.
Id be interested to see you guys test a henkles/zwilling kitchen knife, I use them and love them however they have sharpeners in the butcher block, so im guessing they know their steel is softer? Also I'm sure you guys dont want to just be testing out kitchen knives lol
They should of named themselves Scammikoto 😂
Biggest Scam on UA-cam when it comes to knives is the guy who is using the sharpness tester wrong, even tho people are telling him he should do it the right way... he "shows" how dull a knife is and then makes an ad about his "sharpening tool" which is crap and doesn't sharpen at all.
Regarding these so called Kamikoto, I love that you guys have standards and expose these fakes! Thank you DBK :)
Thank you DBK for exposing the frauds out there. There will always be scam artists, but there's good people like you looking out for the consumers 👍🇺🇸
Good stuff bois! Call out these scammers. You and Pete from Cedric and Ada are doing us all proud by calling out the junk knives! Oh and I'm a chef and can confirm we would never use them.
No you aren't, chefs don't say "bois. Don't lie.
@maikelfeskens9322 oh thanks for letting me know champ. I was under the impression I'd been a chef for nearly 20 years. But I guess I was totally wrong. Do you have a list of all the words chefs do and don't say?
Me listen to this while slicing apples with an cheap hardware store fruit knife that looks like a piece of sharpened stamp steel with a wooden handle: "Eh, knife works."
brought to you by the same scam company known for Established Titles and Deal Dash!
More of a scam than Huusk?
Huusk always comes to my mind when talking about scam kitchen knives. :D
The problem is you've been looking for the headquarters in the wrong place... They're located on a 1sq ft piece of land in Scotland!!
Mickie's mullet is coming along nicely.
This knife video where we make fun of Chinese knives brought to you and sponsored by... A DIFFERENT CHINESE KNIFE COMPANY. Yaaay.
If you call Kamikoto out on their commercial in their comments, they delete your comment.
Those poor knives didn’t stand a chance. Never be a knife in a gunfight.
I loved this video. Thanks! I was going to order th3 set for my husband than I saw your video and I'm enlightened. Much appreciated 🙏
Great!!! Really glad we could save you your precious money
Brilliant exposé! Big love from the UK.
I knew this was a scam as SOON as they said “Japanese crafted”. Biggest marketing gimmick known to man.
Thanks for being honest. Love your content, keep it going 😊
"Concept 22, a design you've never seen before" - shows pretty common knife profile...
I swear, they just trolling with that knife and the kind of steel it was😂
In my nearly sixty years I’ve found that companies only stay in business one of two ways. Either by producing a quality product, or by having great advertising.
Thank you for saving us from those other bad ads! They almost got me.
Thank you for this video popping up in my recommended. I was going to purchase some for my mother as a gift and now i know better.
So glad someone finally called this company out! Known about this for a while and always avoided it. There are several brands under the GV radar like this
Last time I saw a ad for those, was when I unsubscribed from a "debunker" that shilled that by then well known scam.
If im not mistaken this company is either run or owned by the same people that were selling the bogus/novelty “Lord/Lady” titles by allegedly selling you a square foot of land in Scotland. The knives and the titles are bogus. To call these companies shady would be putting it mildly.
Hey DBK boys. I know how much you guys love Sweden, right? A new 100% Swedish made premium knife called Tyrfing just reached the market. It's sort of an Izula inspired blade made by an organisation that sells stuff in support of army veterans called "Rekyl". It's fully custom so you sort of build it yourself picking cerakote color, handle sides, blade shape etc. and even hardness. It's made in Sleipnir at the moment but an Elmax version is in the pipes. Might want to check them out!
Please DBK ☝️
great video! been watching y'all for years and both of your energy is so fun
thank you so much!
Was wondering why my dad wanted one a few months ago. Then i saw your examples of UA-camrs running the sponsorship ads. Makes sense
Hey guys
will you be doing another hot pepper challenge episode again? I always LMAO
I don't know whether people who spend $300 on fake knives deserve pity. There's so much fraud going on that people shouldn't be so trusting!
You should do a Huusk rant, now that's a crappy "Japanese" knife
Mikies dance when chanting Japan, I am dead.
420 j2 is the steel that many folding knife companies use to make the liners in linerlock knives. The maximum carbon content is 0.32% but it can be as low as 0.15%
Sandvik 12c27 is 0.6%
The fact that it isn’t even a full tang knife tells you all you need to know.
I must admit this is one of the more harmless scam products going around - at least you get a knife.
The real hard steels, yellow paper blue paper etc, are truly hard to maintain in tools. It’s so brittle you must be very careful when using blades made from them. A bit if a wrong twist or a knock or a drop and your $300 hand forged tool is chipped or broken.
Because it's not tools. They are instruments . Big difference . And... Those steels are laminated with softer steels to protect such a situations to be minimized . However , That soft steel for the laminations that's what this company using for entire blade .... LoL sus420. LMAO a soft budget cheap stainless steel as a blade. That's China fake for ya.
@@iwontbebeat7111 not always. I use fine Japanese tools (instruments, semantics here) and the blades are NOT laminated. They ARE braised with brass onto more ductile steel handles. But, the blades are pure hand forged blue or yellow paper steel. It’s amazing stuff.
🤣been a while since i laughed this hard seeing DBK videos..This was a good one
My dad got a set of Henckel knives, with a block, steel and all...for free lol. Got it at a garage sale, and the guy wore them down dull...but I had just started my apprenticeship as a butcher lol. Got them back to new and they cut like a razor and I haven't taken them to the stone in over a year. Just good old steel.
Hey, just ran across your channel and I don't know if you usually do videos like this but, if you want to do another, I keep seeing ads for a "wasabi" knife sharpener which is just a ruixin pro sharpener resold under a different brand for three times the price. You can actually see the ruixin branding on it in their own videos.
If you are looking at a knife because of a UA-cam commercial or some random, non-knife focused, UA-camr recommendation then you are looking at the wrong knife.
Thank you for exposing the Kamikoto knives issue 😎👍
I think I have a bunch of exactly those knives in a convenient spaghetti block from our local discounter at $25 for the whole set of 5 knives and the block. They're looking exactly the same and just have a different branding etched in. But at below $5 a knife it was a good deal - they're obvious coming from some chinese sweatshop, selling then in wholesale and laser marking them for each customer.
I can't believe they actually used sussy steel for their scam LMAO
The "Sus420" steel had me laugh a bit :)
My 6mm bowie knife eats those cute knifes for breakfast. It says they taste like shit.
Knives like this make me think of an infomercial that has atleast three “But wait, there’s MORE!” moments and the price drops each time. Now I guess they just do it by paying UA-camrs.
I purchased these many years ago. I had to go through a Major battle on Facebook to receive my knives. The good news is I did eventually receive my knives. Also that someone paid attention to the posts and at that time enabled me to receive what I had paid for. They were pretty inexpensive at the time. As you said they did come sharp. They don’t hold an edge but do touch up easily. As you stated the handles are comfortable. That was the handle shape of some of the first puukko knives I ever saw. Yes I think Scam is the right word to use. Thank you for doing this.
The ads for these knives always felt like late night infomercials and immediately seemed super scummy to me.
this video was needed like 2 years ago or whenever these started showing up. and thank you for caring more about your brand, yourselves, more than a quick & easy buck. though buck at least makes some decent stuff and has a real history unlike skamikoto and all the other products from that company. had they just sold them as decent enough looking knives in a nice looking box for $50 or something no problem. lots of crappy boring knives like that. the lies mean they should all rot in hell though.
I received this box of knives as a Christmas gift a few years ago. Garbage!!! Crap!!! Junk!!! Bizarro Bilge!!! The edges of all three knives were dulled just by running them through a block of warm butter!!! LOL!!!! So I wrapped them in fancy paper and gave them to somebody else this past Christmas. I'm happy now. 😄
THANK YOU! People tried covering this a few years ago, but Kamikoto kept making bullshit sponsorship offers, and others kept taking them.
I was among the first to check their business records in Japan and find out they didn’t exist. They were Chinese.
Nothing wrong with Chinese knives, but pretending to be Japanese and using inferior materials is just bad practice!!!