I love this. There's something beautiful about restoring something like this.

And it ends up being a *quality knife too!

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ChaosEngine.

Call me a cynic but I'm calling fake on this one. The blade of the knife is rusty but the handle looks like it's never been used. I reckon he bought the knife and left it in some brine to rust so he could make up some story for this video to "restore" it.

You can get almost any steel to be really sharp, the difference in quality comes in with how long it holds that edge.

Fake as.

Good quality Japanese blades are carbon steel, with no concessions to stainlessness at all. In a humid environment (my cellar, for example) carbon steel can grow that much rust in a week, easy.