8" MagnaCut Chef Knife

$550.00

A gorgeous 8” Chef Knife made from MagnaCut and Ziricote. Saya included :)

MagnaCut is known to be an extremely high end steel with excellent edge retention, thoughness, and corrosion resistance.

This blade turned out to be an absolute laser, it features a very thin convex grind which helps with food release.

The handle features a museum fit spacer, 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. Ziricote is a very stable wood that shrinks minimally over-time. It will benefit from oiling every now and then.

Specs:

  • Steel: MagnaCut 62.5 HRC

  • Handle: Ziricote with brass spacer.

  • Blade Length: 8” / 204mm

  • Handle Length: ~5.5” / 139mm

  • Heel Height: 1.85” / 47mm

A gorgeous 8” Chef Knife made from MagnaCut and Ziricote. Saya included :)

MagnaCut is known to be an extremely high end steel with excellent edge retention, thoughness, and corrosion resistance.

This blade turned out to be an absolute laser, it features a very thin convex grind which helps with food release.

The handle features a museum fit spacer, 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. Ziricote is a very stable wood that shrinks minimally over-time. It will benefit from oiling every now and then.

Specs:

  • Steel: MagnaCut 62.5 HRC

  • Handle: Ziricote with brass spacer.

  • Blade Length: 8” / 204mm

  • Handle Length: ~5.5” / 139mm

  • Heel Height: 1.85” / 47mm

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.