Chapter 199

It was as if they were chatting about their parents' shortcomings, and everyone seemed indifferent and normal.

Paul drank a glass of wine and walked into the bedroom by himself. Brian took the medicine box for Paul's wound and stood up and went to the bathroom. Charles stretched out his hand to Yang Yi and said, "Come with me."

Yang Yi breathed out and said, "Is Paul okay?"

"He's fine, it's just that he was unlucky and got rubbed on his waist. Okay, come with me."

Charles took Yang Yi from the restaurant into the basement.

Many American houses have restaurants or back doors leading directly to the basement, but the so-called basement is only a semi-basement, which is used to store some tools and the like, and can be directly accessed from the back door or garage.

But Charles's basement is slightly different. There are many tools in Charles's basement, which is nothing unusual, but after Charles pushed open a movable tool cabinet, opened a secret door, and turned on the light, it was A dark room full of knives.

Yang Yi couldn't help but sighed: "A lot of knives! Is this all your collection?"

Charles shook his head and said, "No, it's not my collection, it's my work. I'm a knifemaker in my spare time, but I never sell my work, so I have accumulated a lot here after many years."

Looking at the dazzling array of knives, Yang Yi was once again dazzled.

"I like knives, and I like making knives. I especially like making knives by forging. I have a lot of patterned steel works, but I especially like feather patterns. The materials I usually use are T10 and L6, and 52100, but I also use the honing method for knives, when I use the honing method I like to use the 154cm, and the aus8, which one do you like?"

Yang Yi was stunned when he heard that, then he shook his head and said, "I don't have a special preference for steel."

Charles smiled all over his face. He looked at his work and said, "There are nine hundred and seventy-seven knives here. I have my own studio on a farm. Where is my jackhammer? Where can I forge them?" And quenching, here, I mainly use the grinding method to make knives, and when I can't go to my own studio, I make knives here to pass the time, these are the works I am satisfied with."

After finishing speaking, Charles breathed a sigh of relief and said confidently: "Then tell me about your needs. I believe there must be what you need here."

Paul's knives are basically mass-produced by the factory, while Charles's knives are all hand-made custom-made knives. Of course, hand-made knives are easier to tailor-made according to needs.

Yang Yi said in a deep voice: "I want a single blade, the length should not exceed twenty-five centimeters, and there is no hand guard, so that the knife can be drawn quickly."

Charles thought for a moment, and said, "An assassin's knife, well, there are many options, you can take a look at these."

Yang Yi looked at every knife and liked it very much. I have to say that Charles is an excellent knife maker.

A large part of Charles's works have gorgeous patterns.

There are many knives with patterns, and the production methods are also different. Folding and forging the same piece of steel repeatedly can form faint patterns. This is the long-standing steelmaking in Chinese history.

Folding and forging two kinds of steel with different carbon content together can form the pattern more easily, and the pattern is more obvious. If the pattern is displayed by pickling, the pattern will be more obvious, and steel can also be added Other metals, such as nickel, can make the pattern look more gorgeous.

There is also a patterned knife that is the real Damascus knife.

Damascus knives must be made of Uzi steel originally produced in India. Uzi steel is actually a cast steel with its own pattern. If you cut an Uzi steel egg, you can see the pattern, and of course the Damascus knife made It has intricate and beautiful patterns.

Yang Yi was dazzled by too many things, so that he couldn't pick them out.

But Yang Yi's eyes quickly fell on a small knife. The blade of the knife has a slight curvature, but the curvature of the blade is exaggerated. It looks like the curvature of a skinning knife, but the tip of the knife is very sharp. sharp.

It is a one-piece knife, that is, the blade and the handle are basically integrated, and there are two thin layers of wood covering the blade at the handle. hand.

The edge of the eyes is really a wonderful thing. Some things may not be so beautiful, but they can make you see them at a glance, and then all other similar things beside them lose their color.

This is the situation of Yang Yi now, he saw a knife and fell in love with it immediately.

Without Charles' consent, Yang Yi grabbed the handle of the knife, and then he twirled the knife in his hand a few times.

"This is a Damascus knife. I got a broken blade of a long Damascus knife and used the tip part to make this small knife. The total length is 23.6 cm, the widest part is 2.5 cm, and the thickness is 3 mm. It is light and thin. Sharp, small, I had a pair of desert iron wood knobs on hand at the time, nice but too small to fit on this knife, but overall there isn't much special about this knife. "

After Charles finished speaking slowly, Yang Yi immediately said: "No, this knife is very special!"

"Special? You like this knife:"

"Yes, I like it, the knife is like a part of my arm, the weight, the length, everything fits my needs, it's perfect."

Charles nodded and said, "Understood, this is the one you need, but you can look at others."

Yang Yi said without hesitation: "No need, I don't need to read any more, just this one! Is it okay?"

"Of course, it's not even my real work, I just reworked it."

Charles also seemed a little regretful. He pointed to his other knives: "Don't you look at the others?"

"Don't look at it, I don't need to choose again, all I need is a good knife, and all I need is her."

Yang Yi didn't take his eyes off the knife in his hand.

Falling in love with something is the same as falling in love with a person, only one glance is enough.

And after one glance, the rest can no longer be fully seen.

So Yang Yi really doesn't need anything now, he just wants this knife.

Charles said regretfully: "You have started to use her to call your knife."

"Yes, I have already named her, Moon, she is called Moon in my hand."

"Is this knife like the moon?"

"I just want to call her Moon."

Yang Yi picked such a knife directly when he came in, and Charles was really upset that he didn't even want to read his favorite work.

But Charles didn't say anything, he just shook his head and said, "Just to remind you, this knife doesn't even have a sheath."

Yang Yi said without hesitation: "It's okay."

"Then let's go up, there is no need for you to stay here now."

After closing the door and pushing the tool cabinet back to its original place, Charles said indifferently: "Our progress is a bit too fast, maybe Brian hasn't finished his work yet, so maybe you want to visit it?"