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sold out, thank you guys.
Update: The one featured in the pictures and video below is now sold
Hey guys!
Relative to its size, the dung beetle is not only the strongest insect in the world but the strongest animal. It can pull over 1,000 times its own body weight. If a human being were that strong, he or she would be able to pull six fully loaded double-decker buses all at the same time.
Based on this, i created the following knife below:
It is a 5" chef knife with the similar profile of a santoku. By being called "Beetle", the blade was designed to be a sturdy, workhorse knife that you can prepare most of the meals with tons of safety and performance
The whole focus on this knife is to have a solid, rigid spine and yet a very aggressive grind, all of this keeping some handmade forge hammered finish on the flats.
The hammered finish is done by hand, so each one of them will be randomly different.
They have a very sexy choil and a slightly curvature to offer better comfort as well more safety to the blade.
Its tip is shaped similar to a sheepsfoot / santoku so in summary: something that will a couple lifetimes offering great performance.
1 - Easy to use
2 - Great performer
3 - True workhorse blade that your children will use
STEEL:
The standard version is made out of 14C28N stainless steel by sandvik - a slightly improved version of AEBL. It is hardened to 61HRC which is in my opinion the sweetspot for this alloy offering GREAT (one of the toughest stainless out there) toughness as well nice edge retention.
The grind on this blade has been taken to excellence and no shortcuts were taken. It is ground carefully cooled by water to ensure consistent hardness along all the blade length.
VIDEO - the actual knife of the video and pictures is promptly available
Blade on the video above wasant sharpened but you can see how easy it slices the potato - geometry does not lie!
The knife has polished and rounded spine and choil - absolute comfort when using it.
OPTIONS TO ORDER:
200$ regular version (as presented in the video and pictures): 14c28n stainless steel + Presentation grade kingwood handle (true rosewood from dalbergia genus).
300$ CPM Magnacut blade + Presentation grade kingwood handle - orders in CPM MAGNACUT will have my premium makers mark including the japanese Kanji
260$ extra wide blade (only available in 14C28N) - can be up to 4" wide
250$ full flat polished blade in 14C28N
$? Custom handle: contact me for getting price since there are dozens of materials available, including fossils, composites and many other wood species (such as amboyna burl, snakewood etc).
THIS KNIFE WILL BE DELIVERED HAND SHARPENED TO 2000 GRIT, READY FOR USE.
INITIALLY THERE WILL BE 10 SPOTS - PREFERABLY CLAIM YOUR SPOT IN THE BOOK VIA FVAZCUSTOMKNIVES@GMAIL.COM (IDENTIFY YOUR USERNAME PLEASE)
The beetle is a knife designed to be a trusted, lifetime tool - please dont order if you have any rush on receiving it.
AVAILABLE BEETLE:
Status: sold
The actual knife presented on the video and in the pictures above is the is currently available for
First to claim takes it - im from Brazil and i dont take paypal, i can provide tons of references and payment is easy and fast, there are many options.
Please visit my website and feel free to contact me: fvazknives.com
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, "no way that's the same knife."
