Chapter 198: Love at first sight
It was like talking about some family matters, and everyone seemed calm and ordinary.
Paul drank a glass of wine and walked into the bedroom by himself. Brian took the medicine box for Paul to treat his wounds and stood up to the bathroom. Charles stretched out his hand to Yang Yi and said, "Come with me."
Yang Yi exhaled and said, "Are Paul okay?"
"He's fine, but he's not lucky and got rubbed on his waist. OK, come with me."
Charles took Yang Yi from the restaurant into the basement.
Many American houses have restaurants or back doors that lead directly to the basement, but the so-called basement is only a semi-basement, which is used to store some tools and other things, and can also be directly accessed from the back door or garage.
But Charles' basement is slightly different. There are many tools in Charles' basement, which is nothing unusual. However, after Charles pushed open a tool cabinet that can be moved, opened a secret door, and turned on the lights, it was a dark room full of knives.
Yang Yi couldn't help but sigh: "So many knives! Are these all your collection?"
Charles shook his head and said, "No, it's not my collection, it's my works. I'm a knife maker in my spare time, but I never sell my own works, so a lot has been accumulated here after many years."
Looking at the dazzling array of knives, Yang Yi was once again confused.
"I like knives and make knives, especially forging. I have a lot of pattern steel works, but I especially like feather patterns. The materials I usually use are t10, l6, and 52,100, but I also use grinding and cutting to make knives. When using grinding and cutting to make knives, I like to use 154m and aus8. Which kind do you like?"
Yang Yi was stunned when he heard this, then he shook his head and said, "I have no 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 can I have my air hammers? Where can I forge and quench them. Here, I mainly use sharpening and cutting to make knives. When I can't go to my studio, I will make knives here to kill time. These are all works that I am satisfied with."
After saying that, Charles breathed a sigh of relief and said confidently: "Then talk about your needs, I believe there must be what you need here."
Paul basically has factory-made knives, while Charles has handmade knives. Of course, this handmade 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 25 centimeters, and do not protect your hands, so that it is easy to use the knife quickly."
Charles thought for a moment and said, "A sword of the assassinator, well, there are many choices, you can take a look at these."
Yang Yi liked every knife very much, and I have to say that Charles is an excellent knife maker.
A large part of Charles' works have gorgeous patterns.
There are many knives with patterns, and the production methods are also different. If you fold and forge the same piece of steel repeatedly, you can form a faint pattern. This is the long-standing steel-making process in Chinese history.
Folding and forging two steels with different carbon contents together can easily form patterns, and the patterns are more obvious. If the patterns are displayed by pickling, the patterns will be more obvious. In addition, metals other than steel, such as nickel, can also be added to make the patterns appear more gorgeous and gorgeous.
There is also a patterned knife that is the real Damascus knife.
Damascus knife must be made of Uzi steel native to India. Uzi steel is actually cast steel and has its own patterns. If you cut a Uzi steel egg, you can see the patterns. The Damascus knife made of course has complex and beautiful patterns.
The fact that there were too many things made Yang Yi dazzled that he couldn't even pick it out.
But Yang Yi's eyes quickly fell on a knife. The blade body was slightly curved, but the curve of the blade seemed very exaggerated, looking like the curve of a skinning knife, but the tip of the knife was very sharp.
It is an integrated knife, which means that the blade body and the handle are basically one. There are two thin layers of wood chips covering the blade. The handle does not look too thick, but it will not make you feel tired because it is too thin.
Eyes are really a wonderful thing. Some things may not be very beautiful, but they can make you look at them at first sight, and then all the other similar things next to them will lose their color.
This is the case with Yang Yi now. He saw a knife and fell in love with it at first sight.
Without Charles' consent, Yang Yi grabbed the handle of the knife, and then he held the knife in his hand and turned it around for a few times.
"This is a Damascus knife. I got the broken blade of a Damascus long sword. I used the tip of the knife to create this knife. It is 23.6 cm in length and 2.5 cm in width. It is three millimeters thick. It is thin, sharp and small. I had a pair of iron sheets of desert iron wood tumors on my hand at that time. It was very beautiful but too small. It was just right for this knife to be used, but in general, there was not much special place in this knife."
After Charles finished slowly, Yang Yi immediately said: "No, this knife is very special!"
"Very special? You like this knife:"
"Yes, I like, this knife is like a part of my arm, weight, length, everything is what I need, it's perfect."
Charles nodded and said, "I understand, this is the one you need, but you can see something else."
Yang Yi said without hesitation: "No, I don't need to watch it anymore, this is the one! Is it OK?"
"Of course, this is not even my real work, I just made a little change."
Charles seemed a little regretful, and pointed at his other knives: "Don't you look at the others?"
"I don't have to choose any more if I don't look at it anymore. Just one good knife is enough, and I just need her is enough."
Yang Yi's eyes didn't even move away from the knife in his hand.
Falling in love with something is the same as falling in love with someone, and it only takes a glance.
And after taking a look, the others could no longer be seen.
So Yang Yi really doesn't need anything anymore, he just needs this knife.
Charles said with regret: "You have started to use her to call your knife."
"Yes, I have already given her a name, Moon, and she calls Moon in my hand."
"Is this knife like the moon?"
"I just want to call her the moon."
Yang Yi came in and picked up such a knife, and Charles was really unhappy when he didn't even want to see his proud works.
But Charles didn't say anything. He just shook his head and said, "Remind you, this knife doesn't even have a scabbard."
Yang Yi said without hesitation: "It's okay."
"Then let's go up, you don't have to stay here anymore."
Chapter completed!