Valentine - 6in (150mm) Damascus Petty Culinary Knife

“Valentine” 6in (150mm) Damascus petty knife. The timeless story of love in a time of romance begins with this knife. A rose, immortal and alone, hangs suspended in this knife handle. It waits for the right chef with the right touch to liberate it from its polyresin cage--to show it the world of quality cooking through its polyresin window--to put it to work, chopping, slicing, getting dirty with the clean-cuttting Damascus blade, accompanying the rose like a culinary thorn. Includes sleek walnut says shown. The blade is made from VG10 core hardened to 60 HRC. Multiple layers of stainless are forged on both sides of the blade that protect the core and result in the damascus layer pattern. VG10 is a high hardness stainless that doesn’t require the maintenance or care of a carbon steel. VG10 blades should be sharpened with a water stone, synthetic stone, or diamond. Do not use a honing steel on this blade. The edge angle is sharpened to 17 degrees and then stropped to a super sharp fini