Dancing Flames Chef 205mm

Like flames dancing upward from the embers, the magic of the natural world; the warmth of a fire on a cool night; the sensation of analog art held in the hand, are the sentiments conjured by Andrés Maldonado's culinary creations. Forged by hand at his studio in southern Spain, Andrés combines 1080 and 15n20 high-carbon alloys to produce a damascus steel pattern of exceptional beauty, shaped all the same for unconditional function in the chef's kitchen. Superbly finished with rounded edges and high-polished, hand-sanded satin bevels that allow the nickel-rich 15n20 to shine just so atop a canvas of dark 1080, the 205mm / 8.1" blade is designed to do it all. Stiff, tough, and durable in the rear where a 60mm-tall heel is backed by expertly shaped convex bevel geometry above a very thin, hard, razor-sharp edge, the knife will chop for hours with ease. Moving forward, the spine tapers progressively and steadily, resulting in a touch of lateral flexibility in the blade's front half as the m