To start off, customer service was great, it felt like just talking to someone one on one, and not all professional and feeling like they're forced to talk to you

Moving onto the actual knife plus handle (Separate)

When buying this knife, I had something in mind, which was good quality, sharpness, and sharpness retention, an authentic Japanese knife, handcrafted, and to be cared for

So starting with the blade itself, it felt like a hunk of steel, something that I can really rely on without it crapping on me later down the road, the center of balance is where I would exactly pinch my thumb and index finger, so perfect center balance with the handle (will vary with each knife plus handle), now regarding the sharpness as well. I was skeptical with buying a Japanese knife, I want any and every knife I buy authentic, so finding a right website/seller was hard because people gatekeep and never tell you where to buy them due to them being handcrafted they sell out and won't return for months, so with that being said, I spent days trying to find a knife that I like, with the same style, and same steel core, which is a high carbon steel knife with a kurouchi finish and a kiritsuke, I couldn't find anything and I went to Chat GPT and they gave me this website, at first I thought of it as another website that I'll find something I like but sold out or just not authentic, well when I saw I could assemble my own knife I was intrigued, and I saw this blade and fell in love, and I wanted something traditional, and saw the snakewood and white buffalo handle, and after thoughtful consideration I purchased this knife, and when I read reviews I saw them mention that they don't fully sharpen the knife so that the user can sharpen it to their liking, and I don't have any sharpener yet but I will be buying the HORL rolling knife sharpener, long story short I ask them to sharpen the knife, which they did, and holy smokes when I'm doing the simple paper test (I know it doesn't exactly measure the sharpness) but I do it to see what the edge is like and how little resistant it gives, it is going through paper with little to none resistance, so in my book, it is extremely sharp

so overall, as what I can say, the knife feels really good quality, the steel on this knife (blue super) is sharp, and time will tell on the retention on the knife but as everything stands I really love it, it looks badass, feels great, feels good quality, has a good weight for it but not too much, and I will definitely be buying from here again

oh and the price on these knifes are really a bang for your buck, for people who doesn't take cooking serious will say 200$ for a knife or anything above 300$ is expensive don't really know what good quality equipment can last you, sure 300$ isn't exactly cheap, but for something that can last you most likely a lifetime, its better spending money on this than buying a new 50$ knife or 100$ knife every couple of months, and so as I am getting really into cooking and wanting to go professional, this is an investment for me and my career (and also my happiness)

So to really summarize, I love this knife and handle, it was worth the price to me, and I will be ordering from here again

Thank you Urban for making this process enjoyable and for taking your time