A late find on the Marko Lindela knife which I think is neat.

I knew he charged more for the rustic look knives due to forging "to final thickness" as he said, my assumption spine forged more to final thickness in order to leave rustic appearing material, and rest would be forged/ground as normal.

Not so....he meant entire blade forged to near finished shape, and rough grinding only to level surface, the rough grinding unique to these more rustic blades.

All his knives are forged out, but on others he leaves enough material to eradicate all signs of forging via grinding for "nicer" look, but not on these, not anywhere.

I thought, in typical USA fashion, that what I saw on initial receipt was a blade which had been roughly and minimally forged, roughly ground and thrown in a bin to rust a spell, and then surface rust ground out at final grind/finish. Leaving shadows of the rust in the grind. Hey, I'm American and used to it....

But what I was looking at was a blade forged almost to completed shape, where shadows of scale not completely removed and carrying down to near final edge.

Lotta forging going on with this humble appearing knife. And much could have been skipped with no one the wiser.

The language barrier partly to blame for my misunderstanding, and also misunderstandings of his website, where he lists this finish as "forged", while other finishes do not use the f-word, leading even to typical forum chatter of making up what one does not know, and comments of "sounds like a short cut to me!" regarding his other blades.

The other part to blame is buyers frequently sold things misrepresented by makers in either outright or inferred statements as to how things are made, and Americans especially so misled by many domestic makers and sellers at every turn.

But, it seems with Marko that one gets what one pays for, and then some...such as, check out lines in the spine passing through points both high and low, and only erased on high points, where the more you zoom in, the more you see. I did not notice this until I looked at my own photo. Yep... Lotta forging going on here.