Welcome to the forum.
About China and the US. I work in manufacturing and see both great stuff and crap come from both China and the US. I like to buy from the US. But I don’t blindly buy US just because of the tag. When money allows I buy the best where ever it comes from and take care of it. IMHO WEPS is the best.
With respect to WE or anything being a good product I believe it is not just quality, but also design and customer service. In these areas you won’t be disappointed. More important than all this is passion. I see a passion for this product in WE. Not that they just see this as product to produce. In the end passion drives everything that is important.
DO NOT be disappointed with your first or 5th knife. A.) It takes 5 – 10 or so knives to break in the diamond stones. The first knife will probably not blow your mind. B.) Your technique will improve. It took me to about my 7th knife to finally say I had a Wicked sharp edge, with mirror polish, even bevels, etc.. My first two knives I was worried I had wasted my money. By knife #5 I wasn’t worried any more about if I had wasted my money on the WE. Your first two knives or so should be ones you don’t care much about or worry about messing up.
Thanks Geocyclist I just got my we today and sharpened 2 beater knives and got them reasonably sharp but no where near hair whittleing, which is what I’m after. I was thinking to myself that man my sharpmaker does a better a job than this and this cost me 10 times what that did. Can’t wait for that wow moment!
