Factory-Direct Damascus Kitchen Knives — OEM & Private Label
Real Damascus kitchen knives factory-direct — layer counts, core steels and the etched-pattern question answered honestly. Bolang is seller of record.
Bolang Solutions is a trading company. We chose the model on purpose: it lets us buy across many factories instead of selling you one production line, inspect goods we don't manufacture, and put our own name on every export document as seller of record. The industry's trading-company horror stories are concealment stories — so we run the opposite playbook: registered scope public, address public, and a standing invitation to verify us on gsxt.gov.cn the same way we verify suppliers.
On shipments we trade, the commercial invoice, packing list and bill of lading carry Bolang as seller of record. One counterparty, legally on the hook, answering in English.
Verify us the way we verify suppliers — our registered name, address and Unified Social Credit Code are published on this site; look us up on gsxt.gov.cn.
Damascus sells on beauty and gets bought on trust — because the category's open secret is that some "Damascus" is surface-etched pattern on plain steel. We supply genuine layered blades factory-direct and state the construction on the specification: layer count, core steel, cladding. The honesty is the product.
Made to order, not held in stock
There is no Damascus SKU in our catalogue, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Damascus is a specialty tier here: it is made for your order, to your specification, from 1,000 units per SKU. If you need a few dozen pieces from a warehouse next week, we are the wrong supplier and we would rather say so now than three emails in.
What we do run to order, in the specialty tier alongside Damascus:
| Steel | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Damascus-layered | Layered construction, pattern from folding rather than etching |
| SG2/R2 powder | Powder steel core, for the hardest edge in the specialty tier |
| VG-10 | The established premium Japanese core steel |
Handles in the specialty tier: stabilized wood, Micarta, densified bamboo, Kevazingo, Colorwood. Premium hardwoods — walnut, rosewood, bubinga, cocobolo, ebony, sandalwood — are also to order.
Lead time moves with the season and the size of the order, so we do not publish one. Chinese New Year stops the factories outright and the Q3–Q4 peak fills their lines; the same specification quoted in those windows and quoted outside them are not the same wait. Tell us the quantity and the finish you want and we will put a date next to the price, in writing, before you commit to anything.
Everything in the stocked range, with specifications: our kitchen knives. How the grades compare: the knife steel guide.
Customisation
Logo on blade or bolster, pattern selection at sampling, gift boxes worthy of the price point, certificate cards stating construction — the card converts skeptics.
Real vs etched, stated plainly. Folded construction shows its pattern through the grind and survives sharpening; etched pattern sits on the surface and fades at the edge. We photograph the spine and edge of your sample so the layers are visible evidence, not adjectives.
Common questions
Layer count and core steel on the spec sheet, pattern visible at the spine, and the sample photos we provide. If a supplier won't state the core steel, that is the answer.
Both — performance is the core steel's; the layers are protection and beauty. Buy the core, enjoy the pattern.
Stock patterns carry a lower minimum than custom ones; custom patterns are a tooling conversation.
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