Dexter 8" Chef Knife Carbon Steel Rosewood 1950s-80s Woodworking with stainless blade and bakelite a blacksmith out of

Dexter 8" Chef Knife Carbon Steel Rosewood 1950s 80s Woodworking with stainless blade and bakelite a blacksmith out of with stainless blade and bakelite handle held with brass compression rivets James shares techniques such as using salt to pickle A convex face to a blade greatly increases a knife's performance as there is less sticking as there is on a flat face and the blade does not get thick behind the edge nearly as fast as with a flat faced blade This knife has been re ground and thinned behind the edge on a large 3 foot diameter Japanese water stone wheel (kaiten mizu toishi) and then resurfaced with a medium fine finish