NORA Nakiri #1070 - Spalted Maple

The Nakiri knife is a Japanese style knife that is specifically designed to excel at cutting and prepping vegetables and greens.  These blades are very thin and literally fall through food. Because of the thinness, these blades should not be used for cutting through any type of bone or harder objects but you would be surprised at the versatility of the Nakiri.  We find we use ours for a wide array of tasks in the kitchen - everything from protein prep to bread. The blade height is just over 2 inches which is larger than many other Nakiri's but we find it helps keep your knuckles off the board and it works well with many larger vegetables. Each of our blades is unique and numbered. This NORA knife, number #1070, has been handled with a base of stabilized spalted maple complemented by a black urethane resin that was cast with spiralized pasta. Yes...pasta.  The result kinda looks like fossilized bone which makes for a cool effect and is the reason for our small laser engraving on the na