Kamon x Prince 7-Year Nakiri 195mm
Another collaboration piece for the books comes to us by way of Austria's Benjamin Kamon and Rhode Island's Joshua Prince. Long before Benjamin set out to forge the exquisite nakiri profile, monolithic construction chef knife from a single piece of steel, Joshua was hard at work preparing the ingredients. At the time, this was unbeknownst to Joshua. Those ingredients are, in fact, 'end cuts,' in other words, small pieces of various damascus and mosaic damascus patterns that went unused in previous projects. The extraordinary damascus artist that he is, Joshua knew the time would come to use these surplus pieces of pattern-welded steel, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented Mr. Kamon (again) presented the perfect opportunity. Joshua carefully compiled a collection of said unused blade steels and proceeded to forge them together. To complete the process he created an opposing-twist pattern mosaic made up of the previously separate elements, producing an all new material: 7