7.9" MagnaCut Chef Knife

$500.00

7.9” MagnaCut Chef Knife with Desert Ironwood Handle. Saya included :)

This has to be one of my favorite knives I have made so far. I wanted to push myself beyond my limits and craft something beautiful.

This knife features 62.5 HRC MagnaCut, which has excellent edge retention and toughness while providing maximum corrosion resistance. It holds a beautiful edge and should stay sharp for a long time with good sharpening technique.

The blade has a subtle convex grind which helps with food release.

For the handle I decided to experiment with a museum fit spacer for the first time, which accomodates for the shrinking of natural wood over time, ensuring that the spacer doesn’t dig into the users hand after years of use. This is unlikely to be a problem with a wood as dense as desert ironwood, but it just adds a beautiful visual and tactile element to the handle.

Specs:

  • Steel: MagnaCut 62.5 HRC

  • Handle: Desert Ironwood with brass spacer.

  • Blade Length: 7.9” / 204mm

  • Handle Length: ~5” / 128mm

  • Heel Height: 1.81” / 46mm

7.9” MagnaCut Chef Knife with Desert Ironwood Handle. Saya included :)

This has to be one of my favorite knives I have made so far. I wanted to push myself beyond my limits and craft something beautiful.

This knife features 62.5 HRC MagnaCut, which has excellent edge retention and toughness while providing maximum corrosion resistance. It holds a beautiful edge and should stay sharp for a long time with good sharpening technique.

The blade has a subtle convex grind which helps with food release.

For the handle I decided to experiment with a museum fit spacer for the first time, which accomodates for the shrinking of natural wood over time, ensuring that the spacer doesn’t dig into the users hand after years of use. This is unlikely to be a problem with a wood as dense as desert ironwood, but it just adds a beautiful visual and tactile element to the handle.

Specs:

  • Steel: MagnaCut 62.5 HRC

  • Handle: Desert Ironwood with brass spacer.

  • Blade Length: 7.9” / 204mm

  • Handle Length: ~5” / 128mm

  • Heel Height: 1.81” / 46mm

More information on MagnaCut:

MagnaCut is a powder metallurgy stainless steel which has high edge retention, toughness, and corrosion resistance. It contains vanadium and niobium which form carbides to allow edge retention and toughness simultaneously, two properties that are typically inversely corellated. I choose to heat treat my MagnaCut to 62-63 HRC to maximize the toughness and the hardness of my blades. Since the edge retention mainly comes from the carbides, lowering the hardness from 64 HRC+ to 62.5 doesn’t effect the edge retention too much, but improves the toughness significantly. This results in an extremely balanced blade that can keep its edge for a very long time while also being resistance to chipping.