Celestial Checkered Chef 243mm

A workhorse of the chef’s kitchen with the weight and power to dominate on the cutting board matched by the head-turning visual ingenuity attributed onlyto damascus artist and designer Nick Anger results in a tool for the ages. This one-of-a-kind, full-size chef knife is forged at Nick’s Vermont studio from a piece of checkerboard mosaic damascus in 1080 and 15n20 alloys which Nick then endows with compound ‘S-grind’ geometry and a tough, beautifully honed, hair-popping sharp, 243mm / 9.6″ edge. The rounded blade spine tapers steadily to a slim, pointed tip for detail work, the blade providing the slightest touch of lateral flexibility, a result of Nick’s finely tuned hardening process. The forged integral handle bolster exhibits a swirl of damascus, cut from the same cloth as that of the blade but morphed through heat and pressure to display the alternating alloys in a distinct yet complementary outward appearance. Comfortable in the hand is an understatement; as natural as an extension of the chef’s arm at the butcher block, the gently sculpted damascus bolster merges first with black micarta, followed by striking red buckeye burl, joined with planetary resolve by a disk of ivory micarta. As though the gravitational waves represented in steel twist, pull, and guide the path of an orbiting body entangled in the elements of the universe, a culinary work of functional art emerges.