It's like chatting about what parents are short about, and everyone seems indifferent and ordinary.

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

Yang Yi exhaled and said, "Is Paul okay?" ”

"He's fine, it's just bad luck that he was rubbed on the waist, okay, follow me."

Charles took Yang Yi from the dining room into the basement.

Many American houses have dining rooms or back doors that lead directly to the basement, but the so-called basements are only semi-basements, which are used to store some tools and other things, and can be directly entered from the back door or garage.

But Charles's basement was slightly different, Charles's basement had a lot of tools in it, which was nothing out of the ordinary, but after Charles pushed open a movable tool cabinet, opened a secret door, and turned on the light, there was a dark room full of knives.

Yang Yi couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "There are 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 swordsmith in my spare time, but I never sell my work, so after many years, I've accumulated a lot here." ”

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

"I like knives, I like to make knives, I especially like to make knives in the way of forging, I have a lot of works of patterned steel, but I especially like feather patterns, I usually use T10 and L6, and 52100, but I also use sharpening to make knives, I like to use 154cm when I use grinding and division to make knives, and aus8, do you like that?"

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

Charles smiled as 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 I have my air hammer, where I can forge and quench, here, I mainly make knives by sharpening, and when I can't go to my own studio, I kill time here with knives, these are all works that I am satisfied with." ”

After finishing speaking, Charles exhaled and said with a confident face: "Then talk about your needs, I believe there must be what you need here." ”

Paul is basically all factory-produced knives, while Charles is all hand-made knives, which are of course easier to tailor to your needs.

Yang Yi said in a deep voice: "I want a single edge, no more than twenty-five centimeters in length, and no hand guards, so as to facilitate quick knife delivery." ”

Charles thought for a moment and said, "An assassin's knife, well, a lot of options, you can look at these." ”

Yang Yi likes every knife very much, and I have to say that Charles is a very good knifesmith.

A large part of Charles's work has gorgeous patterns.

There are many knives with patterns, and the production methods are not the same, and the same piece of steel can be folded and forged back and forth repeatedly, and a faint pattern can be formed, which is the hundred steels that have been passed down for a long time in Chinese history.

If the pattern is displayed in the way of pickling, the pattern is more obvious, and you can also add metals other than steel, such as nickel, which can make the pattern appear more gorgeous.

There is also a patterned knife that is the Damascus knife in the true sense of the word.

Damascus knives must be made of Uz steel originating in India, Uz steel is actually a cast steel, itself has its own pattern, if you cut an Uz steel egg you can see the pattern, and the Damascus knife made of course has a complex and beautiful pattern.

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

But Yang Yi's eyes soon fell on a small knife, the blade of the knife was slightly curved, but the arc of the blade was very exaggerated, it looked like the arc of a peeling knife, but the tip of the knife was very sharp.

It is an integrated knife, that is, the blade and the handle are basically one, and there are two thin layers of wood covering the knife body at the handle position, and the handle does not look too thick, but it will not be too thin and clumsy.

It's a wonderful thing to see the edge of the eye, some things don't look great, but they just make you look at it, and then all the other similar things next to you lose their color.

This is the case for Yang Yi now, he saw a knife and liked it at a glance.

Without Charles's consent, Yang Yi grabbed the handle of the knife, and then he took the knife in his hand and turned it around a few times.

"This is a Damascus knife, I got the broken blade of a Damascus long knife, and I made this knife with the tip of the knife, the total length is 23.6 cm, the widest point is 2.5 cm, the thickness is three mm, light and thin, sharp, small, I had a pair of desert ironwood iron pieces in my hand at the time, very beautiful but too small, just enough to be used on this knife, but overall, this knife does not have much special features."

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

"Special? Do you like this knife:"

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

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

Yang Yi said without hesitation: "No need, I don't have to look at it anymore, it's this one!" May I? ”

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

Charles also looked a little regretful, and he pointed to his other knives: "Don't you look at the others?"

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

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

Falling in love with something is the same as falling in love with someone, just one glance is enough.

And after one look, the others can no longer be seen.

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

Charles said with regret: "You have started to call your knife by her." ”

"Yes, I've already named her, Moon, and she's called Moon in my hands."

"Does this knife look like the moon?"

"I just want to call her Moon."

Yang Yi came in and directly picked such a knife, and the result that he didn't even want to look at his proud work made Charles a little unhappy.

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 now."

Closing the door and pushing the tool cabinet back to its place, Charles said lightly: "We're progressing a little too fast, maybe Brian hasn't finished his work yet, so, maybe you'd like to visit?" ”